Thomas Friedman, author of
The World is Flat and most recently
That Used To Be Us, was interviewed by Jim Fleming on NPR's
All Things Considered recently and had this to say about American education,
"Well, if you take the PISA test, which is the best kind of international comparative test on writing, math and science for 15-year-olds, we're right there in the middle of the pack with Slovenia. We are not leaders in these math and science competitions or in the writing competitions. We quote the latest sort of statistic, there's an annual kind of you know, math genius competition for college
