What’s most worrisome about Latin America’s disastrous performance in the recently released international PISA student tests are not the results themselves, but that many countries in the region are not even recognizing that they have a serious problem.
Since the results of the test came out earlier this month, there has been a lot of media attention on the fact that Latin American countries that participated in the test — Chile, Mexico, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia and Peru — ranked at the bottom of the list of 65 participating countries.
But little or nothing has been written about the countries that pulled out from the test at the last minute, like Panama, or those that
