Yesterday, NBC Nightly News featured a segment about the newly-released PISA results, which, as you probably know by now, show students in Shanghai outshining their competitors around the world in math, reading and science. Checker was interviewed in this NBC segment. He warned that this academic dominance is likely to spread throughout China in coming years.
?The rest of the world had better be aware that China in the future is not just going to be producing cheap plastic toys; they are going to be outcompeting us in everything that requires brainpower,? he said.
?Amy Fagan