By contrast, in countries such as Finland and Singapore that perform well on international measures of academic achievement teacher candidates are drawn from the top quartile. (hechingerreport.org)
The National Governors Association and Council of Chief State School Officers, two nonprofit coalitions, developed the Common Core out of a concern that the United States was falling behind on international measures of student achievement and stagnating on its own benchmarks of success, like the National Assessment of Education Progress. (hechingerreport.org)
The even better news is that, from a US point of view, high - performing nations include Australia, alongside Finland, Sweden, Japan, South Korea and Singapore — whose students perform well on international measures such as the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) and Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). (teachermagazine.com.au)