Pisa tests: Singapore top in global education rankings - BBC News

[the-pi-guy]

Pisa tests: Singapore top in global education rankings - BBC News

The UK remains a middle-ranking performer - behind countries such as Japan, Estonia, Finland and Vietnam.
OECD education director Andreas Schleicher said Singapore was "not only doing well, but getting further ahead".

Finland, Estonia, Canada and Ireland are the only non-Asian nations to get into any of the top five rankings across all three subjects.
Mr Schleicher said that Asian countries such as Singapore managed to achieve excellence without wide differences between children from wealthy and disadvantaged families.

But the UK has failed to make any substantial improvement - despite education ministers in England making the Pisa rankings an important measurement of progress.
In maths, the UK is ranked 27th, slipping down a place from three years ago, the lowest since it began participating in the Pisa tests in 2000
In reading, the UK is ranked 22nd, up from 23rd, having fallen out of the top 20 in 2006
The UK's most successful subject is science, up from 21st to 15th place - the highest placing since 2006, although the test score has declined


The small Asian country focused relentlessly on education as a way of developing its economy and raising living standards.
And from being among the world's poorest, with a mix of ethnicities, religions and languages, Singapore has overtaken the wealthiest countries in Europe, North America and Asia to become the number one in education.
Prof Sing Kong Lee, vice-president of Nanyang Technological University, which houses Singapore's National Institute of Education, said a key factor had been the standard of teaching.
"Singapore invested heavily in a quality teaching force - to raise up the prestige and status of teaching and to attract the best graduates," said Prof Lee.

The US ranks 40th in math, 25th in science, 24th in reading.

[Xevross]

Well at least we're better than the US

I think those top performing countries have schools which are like factories. Grinding out the results in those key areas. Our schools are much more free and kids have much more fun, which is a big part of childhood.

[Max King of the Wild]

So, target has an app called cartwheel. It's just a coupon app type thing. Right now, both ps4 and xb1 are 15% off using cartwheel. It tells you how many times it was redeemed. 3700 for xb1. 6700 for ps4. Limited data but at least they're hard numbers and sourced lol

If infoscout is cited with only 2000 total receipts... Most of which aren't game related

[Xevross]

So, target has an app called cartwheel. It's just a coupon app type thing. Right now, both ps4 and xb1 are 15% off using cartwheel. It tells you how many times it was redeemed. 3700 for xb1. 6700 for ps4. Limited data but at least they're hard numbers and sourced lol

If infoscout is cited with only 2000 total receipts... Most of which aren't game related

Woah that's pretty good. We should keep an eye on this app!

[the-pi-guy]

This definitely explains how Singapore is doing so well.
 

[Max King of the Wild]

This definitely explains how Singapore is doing so well.
 

Lol, I meant to click on sales thread. Just typed after clicking without seeing what thread I was in

[Xevross]

This definitely explains how Singapore is doing so well.
 

It explains how Singapore are on target

[Legend]

I was wondering why this thread was so active. Guess that makes sense  


I'm not at all surprised about the US's low math score. Our culture treats it like a joke unless your job revolves around it.