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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^Only a member of the teachers union believes the US has one of the best public school systems in the world. THE list of other countries besting us grows larger every day. Ireland, most Scandinavian countries, Japan, China, South Korea, Germany, India are just a few. If the public school system is so great, why are the majority of the posters here enrolling their kids in privates? Are they all prestige seekers?

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Just to correct the record, the US ranks 28th in Math, 6th in reading and 10th in science.

Overall we are at 18 (though China cheats and only provides scores from private schools in Beijing and Shanghai).

We are actually ahead of Sweden, Belgium, France, Germany, Norway.  Just behind Denmark…but yes behind Ireland, UK, South Korea and Japan.

India doesn’t seem to participate.
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India participated once and their scores were so low they stopped participating.

https://thewire.in/education/india-opts-out-of-pisa-2025

“ The last time India took this assessment was in 2009 when it ranked 73rd, second-last to Kazakhstan, out of the 74 participating countries. Over 90 countries will participate in PISA 2025.”

If you break out performance across racial groups, the US looks pretty good.  US Asians outperform every country out there, US whites are slightly behind Japan and ahead of South Korea and out score every European country out there.  US Hispanics outscore every Hispanic country out there other than Spain, and American blacks did reasonably well, drastically outscoring majority black countries and scoring the same as Greece and Ukraine.

Honestly, the US has a good educational system, we’re simply dealing with very different student populations than the countries we’re compared with.

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