Singapore, Dec. 4 -- PARIS * Singapore educators deserve to be congratulated for how well they continue to prepare their young charges for an increasingly complex, ambiguous and volatile world, going by the results of the 2018 Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) test released yesterday.
Even though the Republic's 15-year-olds lost their 2015 pole position to their peers from Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang in China, they came in a strong second in the study done every three years by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
The test measures how well students use their maths, science and reading skills to solve problems.
Reading was the main area tested for this round of Pisa, and we s...