Tainted Paint in the PISA Picture?
If you thought that Bloomberg was the favorite to win the latest Totalitarian Capitalist Award for test score engineering, you would be wrong. This year it must go to China, whose preposterously amazing first year test scores on PISA demonstrates, hands down, that the Chinese government's totalitarian capitalists are light years ahead in test cheating:
. . . .The scores are based on a scale, with 500 as the average. Two-thirds of the students score between 400 and 600. In math, for example, students from Shanghai scored an average of 600. . . .Hmm. Of course, China has an insurmountable advantage based on a 1,200 year history of perfecting cheating on civil service exams, which guaranteed throughout history as PISA scores do now whether your family
