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New global testing standards will force countries to revisit academic rankings

New global testing standards will force countries to revisit academic rankings

Since 2000 when the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) launched a global academic benchmark for measuring student outcomes by testing 15-year-olds, many global education systems have been impacted by what sometimes looks and feels like a race to rank high. When the OECD launched the Programme for International Student Assessment — PISA — the idea was to […] … learn more→