Shanghai's secret is a mix of traditional and modern schooling practices and dedicated pupils.

De dåliga Pisa-resultaten i Sverige blev snabbt huvudingrediens, för att inte säga slagträ, i en ilsken debatt i brittiska underhuset i tisdags mellan skolminister Michael Gove och bland andra Labours skuggskolminister Tristram Hunt.

Despite Finnish education's strong performance in Pisa, it isn't all perfect – science and maths standards are declining and top-performing students aren't being pushed enough,writes Dr Juha Ylä-Jääski, president and chief executive of Technology Academy Finland.

Det er alvorlig at norske elver fortsatt bare presterer gjennomsnittlig godt. Likevel kan det være på tide å roe ned test-hysteriet.

For svake lærere = for svake elever i matematikk. Det er hovedårsaken til at Norge ligger nesten et skoleår bak Finland, mener landets fremste skoleforskere og skolepolitikere.

Coalition seizes on decline in test results for Australian high school students in maths, science and reading since 2009.

The Pisa league tables raise some interesting points about world education, but they are far from infallible.

Once a shining example for Michael Gove Sweden has now recorded the largest drop in maths performance over 10 years.

U.S. teenagers showed little progress on an international test of math, science and reading, which was again led by students in Shanghai and Singapore, bolstering support for tougher standards in U.S. schools.

Sverige er den store taber i Pisa-undersøgelse. Skolelevers færdigheder falder over hele linjen. Mens der er bekymring i Danmark over den internationale Pisa-undersøgelse om skolefærdigheder, så er der nærmest chok i Sverige.

The Department for Education is to create 30 elite maths centres across the country after major research from the OECD finds UK schoolchildren are up to three years behind peers in the Far East.

Not keen on browsing 500+ pages of education test results? Reluctant to look at more tables than an Ikea factory.... Here's the short-attention span version.