On December 3, the OECD released the results of the 2018 PISA assessment of students around the world. The Council of Ministers of Education, Canada released the results for the ten provinces. See our charts (PDF) Last updated December 7, 2019 @ 1:00 PM.
In the interest of informing public discussion of the results, we are posting our own summary charts. This is a work in progress, and should be treated as a draft. The charts will be updated several times over the coming days.
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