Colombia ranks low in international education survey .

[Judi Lynn]

Colombia ranks low in international education survey
Monday, 13 December 2010 19:10 Adriaan Alsema

Colombia ranked 52nd of 65 in the 2009 PISA survey, organized by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

The survey, based on two-hour tests of half a million 15-year olds, tested the literacy and knowledge of mathematics and science of the participating students.

The best-educated students were from Shanghai (China), Korea and Finland. Canada ranked 6th and the U.S. 17th.

Colombia is not the only Latin-American country whose children were under-performing in the survey. Ranked below Colombia were Brazil (53) and Panama (62) and Peru (63). The best performing Latin American country was Chile, which ranked 44th.

http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/13386-colombia-ranks-low-in-international-education-survey.html

[roody]

1. Those test takers were the ones who get to go to school.