News Summary

• High-school students across Asia are pulling ahead of their Western peers, an annual global assessment indicates.
• In a troubling trend, reading, science and math performance among 15-year-olds has continued a decline globally across the board.
• Among last year’s top performers were students in the Chinese cities of Beijing and Shanghai, Chinese provinces Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the city-state of Singapore.
• Japan and South Korea were also in the Asia-dominated top 10 across all three subjects.