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If your head is in a whirl trying to keep track of all the recent national
and international comparisons of student achievement, visit the OQE home
page (www.oqe.org). We have just posted two new backgrounders. At last!
Easy-to-understand guides which explain all the tests and summarize the 
results.

We have deliberately excluded studies which tested students older than 14,
in order to be certain that apples are being compared to apples. At this
level, there can be no question that other industrialized countries' samples
are more selective than Canada's.

Putting the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle together, a highly-consistent
picture emerges.
Canada as a whole is crushingly mediocre. Although Canada is one of the
world's biggest spenders when it comes to education, the Asian "dragons" are
leaving us in the dust.
Comparing the provinces, Quebec, Alberta and British Columbia tend to place
at the top. Ontario, the province with the most affluent and best-educated
population, started out in the middle of the pack in the 1980's but dropped
lower and lower in the standings until it hit bottom in recent tests.