The OECD test results are in…

… and the United States clocks in at number 17 on the triennial evaluation of student skills in math, science, and reading. The Paris-based organization bases its findings on a test administered to hundreds of students in OECD member and partner countries. More on key findings here.

By , a professor at Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies.

… and the United States clocks in at number 17 on the triennial evaluation of student skills in math, science, and reading. The Paris-based organization bases its findings on a test administered to hundreds of students in OECD member and partner countries. More on key findings here.

… and the United States clocks in at number 17 on the triennial evaluation of student skills in math, science, and reading. The Paris-based organization bases its findings on a test administered to hundreds of students in OECD member and partner countries. More on key findings here.

David Bosco is a professor at Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies. He is the author of The Poseidon Project: The Struggle to Govern the World’s Oceans. Twitter: @multilateralist

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