Here are highlights of the newly released 2012 scores from the Program of International Student Assessment, an exam given every three years to 15 year olds around the world in reading, math and science. In this administration of PISA, 65 countries and education systems participated. Connecticut, Florida, and Massachusetts each participated for the first time as international benchmarking systems and received separate scores.
These results are part of a release on the PISA results from the U.S. National Center for Education Statistics.
Key findings:MATHEMATICS LITERACY:
SCIENCE LITERACY:
READING LITERACY: