JAKARTA -- Long before emerging as one of the leading proponents of Brexit, Michael Gove's role as British education minister took him to Asia, where he declared in 2010 that "places like Shanghai and Singapore put us to shame," when it comes to quality of schooling.
Perhaps Gove should not have been surprised, given that the previous year Shanghai topped the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's PISA science rankings. The Program for International Student Assessment scores are published every three years and rank students in mathematics, science and reading.
