An American education

How well is your child being educated? The Program for International Student Assessment (Pisa) recently found that American teenagers scored below average in math, along with Azerbaijan, Spain and the Slovak Republic (in the U.S., a printing error in the reading-test booklets resulted in no reported scores). Here’s a list of the best—and worst—10 countries in both categories.

Best 10           Worst 10          
ReadingReading
South KoreaIceland
FinlandNorway
Hong KongCzech Republic
CanadaHungary
New ZealandLatvia
IrelandLuxembourg
AustraliaCroatia
LiechtensteinPortugal
PolandLithuania
Sweden

Italy
  
MathMath
TaiwanSlovak Republic
FinlandHungary
Hong KongLuxembourg
South KoreaNorway
NetherlandsLithuania
SwitzerlandLatvia
CanadaSpain
Macao (China)Azerbaijan
LiechtensteinRussian Federation
JapanUnited States

Source: news.bbc.co.uk