Canadian teens beat much of the globe in problem-solving skills

By Louise Brown. OECD's latest assessment ranks Canadian students ahead of most of the West in many skills thought most important by 21st century employers. Canadian teens outshone their English-speaking peers around the world on a new global test of the problem-solving skills that employers call the secret to a strong economy. While they slipped slightly on the last international math test, Canadian 15-year-olds ranked seventh among 44 countries — beaten only by Singapore, Japan, Korea and four regions of China — on this new test of “creative problem-solving skills,” to be released Tuesday as part of the OECD’s latest Program for International Student Assessment (PISA.) More...