You may have read by now that U.S. fourth-graders who participated in an international test known as PIRLS just dropped in the rankings.
PIRLS stands for the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study, an assessment given to fourth-graders in schools around the world every five years, and the latest scores, from 2016, were released Tuesday, and the usual hand-wringing about how U.S. students performed on the latest international test began.