@newspaperarticle {312846,
	title = {Ranking the Rankings},
	journal = {The Economist},
	year = {2014},
	abstract = {Education ministers across the globe quake in the run-up to the publication, every three years, of the OECD{\textquoteright}s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), which rates 15-year-olds{\textquoteright} academic performance in dozens of countries. Those that do well can expect glory; the first PISA ranking, published in 2001, surprised the world by putting unshowy Finland near the top in every subject and made it a mandatory stop-off for any self-respecting education policymaker. Germany{\textquoteright}s poor showing, by contrast, led to national hand-wringing, school reforms and the creation of a {\texteuro}4 billion ($5 billion) federal education support programme.},
	url = {http://www.economist.com/news/international/21631039-international-comparisons-are-popular-influentialand-sometimes-flawed-ranking-rankings},
	author = {Beth A. Simmons}
}
