Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums General Discussion 2012 PISA results are out

As Steve Sailer explains in

http://isteve.blogspot.com/2013/12/graph-of-2012-pisa-scores-for-65_4.html
Graph of 2012 PISA scores for 65 countries/economies
December 4, 2013

and other posts on his blog, the performance of Asian and white American students is comparable to that of students in East Asian and European countries, respectively. I think the raw performance of the U.S. educational system is OK, neither great nor awful, and doubt that Common Core will make a big difference, but I think we ought to be paying less for that performance.