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International student assessment results Jiang uses as the conventional measure of future national economic capacity.
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PISA rankings
A source-grounded reading of the episode's central claim: American war culture has learned to convert military failure into rescue spectacle, while real wars are still decided by economics, organization, logistics, and endurance.
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A source-grounded reading of the episode's central claim: American war culture has learned to convert military failure into rescue spectacle, while real wars are still decided by economics, organization, logistics, and endurance.
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"2018 the PISA is the program for international student assessment so every three years the OECD which is which is a national organization around..."
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"...systems officer is a colonel. A colonel is a very high ranking individual in American military. So why would he participate in this operation?..."
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"...parents and all they talk about are the kids schools school rankings here in in China are obsessed over as much as sports rankings..."
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"Yeah, what's so interesting, I was just looking at the rankings. Two of the biggest countries, I guess we could count Guyana as food..."
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"...are just smarter than everyone else okay so this is the PISA rankings this is from"
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"...what's driving this conflict okay so again from the piece of rankings it seems as though east asians will come to dominate the world..."
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"...5 %? And it turns out that no one got the ranking correct. Okay? So those who were in the top 5 % in..."
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"...to get ahead you need school over your classmate so class ranking is very important so that's kind of odd okay and the last..."
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"...all the results, not one student predicted his or her class ranking. Those who did really well, the top 5%, it was pretty easy..."
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"...know beijing and Shanghai have shot up on the on the PISA rankings you know there's a lot of a lot of conversation about..."
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"...lot of bureaucratic reasons, they chose not to give a country ranking and rather just focus on Shanghai."
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"...really striking. I think anyone who looks at that list of rankings of PISA will not only notice that Shanghai is way up there..."
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