Intellectual Takeout...feed your mind When it comes to international education rankings, the U.S. ranks 17th in reading, 21st in science, and 26th in math. Unfortunately, the U.S. accounts for these abysmal scores by saying that our large number of poor and disadvantaged students are to blame. But as a new study from the OECD (the organization responsible for the international PISA exam) suggests, the low performance of poor students isn’t the scapegoat we have made it out to be. According to an Atlantic article on the subject, other nations – such as Vietnam, Shanghai, and South Korea – have large numbers of disadvantaged students too, yet only 5 percent of students in these nations … [Read more...]