Education Indicators : An International Perspective

International education indicators provide the opportunity to compare America's performance with that of other countries, to identify similarities and differences between our systems and others, and to suggest new approaches to the challenge of providing a world class education. Comparisons are among Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the U.K. and the U.S. Students in the U.S. perform well in comparison with their peers in other countries in reading and less well in geography and science; their weakest area is math. Public financial investment in education in the U.S. is among the highest.Matheson, Nancy is the author of 'Education Indicators : An International Perspective', published 1996 under ISBN 9780160635878 and ISBN 016063587X.