Education Olympics: How Does America Rank Compared To Other Countries?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/27/education-olympics-how-do_n_1707968.html

A report out last week by Harvard University's Program on Education Policy and Governance found that U.S. studentsaren't progressing to catch up to their foreign peers.

Students in Latvia, Chile and Brazil are making gains in academics three times faster than American students, while those in Portugal, Hong Kong, Germany, Poland, Liechtenstein, Slovenia, Colombia and Lithuania are improving at twice the rate.