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PIRLS2006 and PISA2006 Release

1. PIRLS (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study) 2006 release; a
webcast of the 11.28.07 press conference is available at www.timss.org,
along with the full report
2. PISA (Program for International Student Assessment) 2006 release. The
following information was sent out following the premature release of data.
The formal release date is 4 December 2007.

I have appended, after the following message, an invitation from the
Alliance for Excellent Education to attend an event on 4 December 2007
presenting the results. The deadline has passed for registering for the
event, but I was told that the event will be webcast and available at the
AEE website at a later date.

Patsy

---------- Forwarded message ----------

This announcement from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) provides
information regarding the Program for International Student Assessment
(PISA) 2006.

PISA assesses 15-year-olds in science, reading and mathematics literacy and
is sponsored by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
(OECD), an intergovernmental organization of 30 industrialized countries.
PISA 2006 results will be officially released internationally and in the
United States on December 4, 2007. Selected results, however, are being
released now.

Yesterday in Spain, the newspaper Magisterio broke an embargo agreement by
printing PISA 2006 science results, requiring OECD to make public that set
of findings prior to the December 4 international release.

OECD has made available on its website (www.pisa.oecd.org) data from the
report corresponding to the data that were published, along with an
explanatory note. In conjunction with the release of the science literacy
rankings by OECD, IES is making available from its national report the
figure on the international rankings that uses the United States as the
point of comparison, along with a summary presenting the number of countries
scoring higher, lower and not measurably different than the United States.

To download, view and print the selected results as a PDF file, please
visit:  http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pisa/

Results show that the average score for U.S. students in science literacy
was lower than the average of other OECD countries (489 vs. 500). Compared
to the 29 other OECD countries, the United States scored lower, on average,
than 16 OECD countries, not significantly different from 8, and higher than
5.

Compared with all 56 other jurisdictions participating in PISA 2006, the
United States scored lower than 22 jurisdictions, not significantly
different from 12, and higher than 22.

PISA has been administered three times, in 2000, 2003, and 2006.  The United
States participated in all three administrations.  In 2006, 57 education
systems (called jurisdictions in the report) participated, including all 30
OECD countries and 27 non-OECD jurisdictions.

For more information, contact Bruce Friedland at 202-219-1658;
bruce.friedland@ed.gov.
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