Throughout his campaign, President-elect Trump repeatedly disparaged what he saw as America’s failing school system.

“We are rated 28 in the world. The United States, think of it, 28 in the world,” he said in a video he uploaded to Facebook earlier this year. “Third-world countries are ahead of us.”

Though he never explicitly mentioned the source of that rating, it is likely that he was referring to the international test most widely used as a tool for measuring education systems worldwide, the Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA.

And while “third world” is a vague descriptor that means different read more >>>

Source:: BusinessInsider.Com