Why don TIMSS, PISA, and PIRLS report differences between U.S. students and other countries students based on race/ethnicity?
• There are certain demographic characteristics that are not meaningful across countries. Race/ethnicity is one of these. In the United States, race and ethnicity are highly correlated with education and socio-econimic status, which makes them meaningful categories for analysis. While that is also true in other countries, the racial and ethnic categories used to classify people vary from country to country.
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