The Crazy Years

Student scholastic performance PISA results are in from OECD:

Does anyone else notice the innumeracy of the creators of this report?

Hint: if you’re going to talk about the impact of school closures, look at the difference in scores between 2022 and 2018.

If anything, this chart shows that numeracy is associated with fewer school closures (because of a better approach in China).

This is good data, though:

Massive drop over the past 5 years:

Here’s an analysis of immigrant performance, where we see high-IQ immigration to Qatar and Arab Emirates – and USA. In contrast, there’s low-IQ immigration to Europe.

A former NYC teacher wrote this:

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