Tony Bates points to this report mas a useful antidote to things such reports comparing the Canadian system with the U.S. "Don't be fooled by the [IHE] article's title," he writes, "it is much more complicated than the US catching up." The report examines the data, but is also straightforward in its aims: "This essay confronts the negative propaganda about the comparative performance of the United States because the propaganda is problematic." Propaganda, the authors writes, such as the OECD PISA studies. Based on a quick reading, I would say it appears to be a good report, but I would conclude from it not that American students are doing comparatively well after all, but rather, that the numbers describing their achievement are not especially reliable.
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