America's poor return on education investment

America’s Shanghai Surprise

By Bill Costello
Saturday, December 18, 2010

American students are lagging significantly behind their peers from several countries in Europe and Asia according to new results from a key international assessment. They are the furthest behind students from the Chinese city of Shanghai, who received the top international test scores in math, science, and reading.

“We have to see this as a wake-up call,â€