Organization for the Economic Cooperation and Development Student Rankings

by Michael Orshan

What do exactly do with our taxes? Do we spend in on the advancement of science and technology? How about education? Ha! How about, I don’t know what else? Besides war and basic operations, I can’t figure out what the US government does for the advancement of society. Once upon a time we lead the world in so much.

Check out the student assessment study recently released. Korea. Oh my god, Korea is having so much success in education they should franchise whatever they are doing. Or Finland, who is having an equally phenomenal success story. I hope that someone on this side of the world is checking these programs out.

So what’s the news? I’ve checked several times now and on the reading scale, the United States is not on the chart. Who is preventing them from showing up besides the top dogs? Well the bottom three is Azerbaijan, Qatar and Kyrgyzstan.

What about math? Well the United States makes the bottom 3rd. The country rankings are below and the report is at
http://www.oecd.org/document/2/0,3343,en_32252351_32236191_39718850_1_1_1_1,00.html. It is worth a viewing.

Range of rank of countries/economies on the reading scale


Korea 556
Finland 547
Hong Kong-China 536
Canada 527
New Zealand 521
Ireland 517
Australia 513
Liechtenstein 510
Poland 508
Sweden 507
Netherlands 507
Belgium 501
Estonia 501
Switzerland 499
Japan 498
Chinese Taipei 496
United Kingdom 495
Germany 495
Denmark 494
Slovenia 494
Macao-China 492
Austria 490
France 488
Iceland 484
Norway 484
Czech Republic 483
Hungary 482
Latvia 479
Luxembourg 479
Croatia 477
Portugal 472
Lithuania 470
Italy 469
Slovak Republic 466
Spain 461
Greece 460
Turkey 447
Chile 442
Russian Federation 440
Israel 439
Thailand 417
Uruguay 413
Mexico 410
Bulgaria 402
Serbia 401
Jordan 401
Romania 396
Indonesia 393
Brazil 393
Montenegro 392
Colombia 385
Tunisia 380
Argentina 374
Azerbaijan 353
Qatar 312
Kyrgyzstan 285



Range of rank of countries/economies on the mathematics scale


Chinese Taipei 549
Finland 548
Hong Kong-China 547
Korea 547
Netherlands 531
Switzerland 530
Canada 527
Macao-China 525
Liechtenstein 525
Japan 523
New Zealand 522
Belgium 520
Australia 520
Estonia 515
Denmark 513
Czech Republic 510
Iceland 506
Austria 505
Slovenia 504
Germany 504
Sweden 502
Ireland 501
France 496
United Kingdom 495
Poland 495
Slovak Republic 492
Hungary 491
Luxembourg 490
Norway 490
Lithuania 486
Latvia 486
Spain 480
Azerbaijan 476
Russian Federation 476
United States 474
Croatia 467
Portugal 466
Italy 462
Greece 459
Israel 442
Serbia 435
Uruguay 427
Turkey 424
Thailand 417
Romania 415
Bulgaria 413
Chile 411
Mexico 406
Montenegro 399
Indonesia 391
Jordan 384
Argentina 381
Colombia 370
Brazil 370
Tunisia 365
Qatar 318
Kyrgyzstan 311