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India performs very poorly on international educational tests like the PISA. I think peoples idea of Indian education is severely warped by the sampling bias of the Indian nationals we meet in the US.[/quote]

Please feel free to tell people who are from India and live in the US and post on the MD Public Schools forum on DCUM that their math education was no good. I wonder how they will respond.[/quote]

If you tested American graduates of MIT and Cal Tech I'm sure you would think that US math education is the best in the world.  India has a billion+ people, the ones that are here are cream of the crop.  When you test all Indians they do very poorly; significantly worse than the US. [/quote]

And when you test all of China? Not just Shanghai and Hong Kong.[/quote]

Good question. There are some indications that the poor provinces in China score reasonably well on tests like the PISA, but until they actually do the test nobody can know for sure.  I'm also a little leery of test results coming out of countries like China.  The PISA requires a representative sample to be accurate and I'm not sure how stringent the checking is for this.[/quote]

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