> White Americans outperform all of them in the PISA tests. America only performs poorly in the PISA tests when you don't exclude non-whites. I'm not sure that

> White Americans outperform all of them in the PISA tests. America only performs poorly in the PISA tests when you don't exclude non-whites. I'm not sure that's a good metric of overall literacy levels in the country. Additionally, I think Soviet-era education, which expired around 2002, always stacked up pretty well to other leading countries.