Chinese teens put to the information age test in global Pisa education study
Fifteen-year-olds in some of Chinas most affluent cities far outstrip their counterparts in most other countries when it comes to an important skill in the information age, according to a global education study.Some 22 per cent of the 15-year-olds surveyed in Beijing, Shanghai, and Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces showed they could handle abstract concepts and discern facts from opinions in what they read by achieving a reading level of at least 5 out of 6 in the 2018 Programme for International