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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I disagree. American kids have been losing ground for decades. And yet, America still wants the wool pulled over its eyes. We have to do better. We need to honestly know how bad our kids are doing in order to do better.[/quote]

How do you know they need to do better, what metrics are you using to determine this or are you just reading the Washington Post?[/quote]

PISA, you nitwit.[/quote]

Why is it important that American students "do better" on the PISA?   What metric are you using?[/quote]

Who takes PISA? [/quote]

See this website. https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pisa/faq.asp#12

It is a complex process to find representative American students but very few sit for the exams. It is only given every three years - will next happen in Fall 2015 in the U.S.

Interestingly the kids who take it only learn the morning of the test that they will be doing it.

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INTERNATIONALLY COMPETITIVE

2014 PISA for Charters

Students at BASIS charter schools once again tested above the highest-ranked school systems in the world, as well as substantially above U.S. students, on the OECD Test for Schools (Based on PISA). This year, for the first time, four BASIS schools were eligible to participate: BASIS Chandler, BASIS Oro Valley, BASIS Scottsdale, and BASIS Tucson North. On average, students in these schools scored higher than Shanghai, the world's highest performing school system, in Reading, Math and Science.

BASIS Scottsdale and BASIS Tucson North participated in the pilot for the OECD Test for Schools in 2012, while this was the first time BASIS Chandler and BASIS Oro Valley were eligible to participate in the OECD program. The exam was administered last spring.

The OECD Test for Schools (based on PISA) is a student assessment tool geared for use by schools and networks of schools to support research, benchmarking and school improvement efforts. The assessment tool provides descriptive information and analyses on the skills and creative application of knowledge of 15-year-old students in reading, mathematics, and science, comparable to existing PISA scales.

Among the results:

All of the eligible BASIS schools outscored such other high scoring countries as Singapore, Korea, Finland and Switzerland.

All of the eligible BASIS schools have scores that put them in the top 5% of all schools in the world in Reading, Math and Science, with two exceptions: BASIS Scottsdale is among the top 1% of all schools in the world in Reading, and BASIS Oro Valley is among the top 10% of schools in math worldwide.

On average, 56% of all students who took the OECD in BASIS schools scored in the highest categories (5 & 6) in math. In the U.S., only 10% of students scored in these categories, while in BASIS Scottsdale 63% scored in those categories, and 56% of students in Shanghai scored in these categories.

According to these results, the average BASIS student is 2 ½ to 3 years ahead of the average American student in Reading, Math, and Science.

All of the eligible BASIS schools scored better on the OECD Test for Schools than the average U.S. private school did in 2009 on the PISA exam, in Reading, Math and Science.[/quote]

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