Shanghai’s PISA Test Scores Aren’t Meaningless, But May Involve Some Cheating

By James Fulford

12/04/2013

Business Insider has a piece called Why Shanghai’s Amazing Test Scores Are 'Almost Meaningless'. By Max Nisen, December 3, 2013. By meaningless, he means unrepresentative of China as a whole.

There are a few reasons that comparing other countries with Shanghai simply doesn’t work, and that any headline discussing "China’s" PISA scores should be ignored.

What this really means is that Shanghai, as the home of China’s meritocratic elite, has gifted their schoolchildren with really smart parents. I’m also impressed by the fact that China has "restrictions that keep migrant students out of municipal schools" — a similar restriction would raise the average of American test scores. America can’t even keep illegal immigrants out of municipal schools.

No, there are two reasons to be a little suspicious of Shanghai’s soaring PISA scores

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