The OECD recently issued its new book-length report, "Measuring Innovation in Education 2019." The authors use the PISA, TIMSS, and PIRLS databases to look at changes in a slew of instructional and system practices across the OECD nations between 2006 and 2016. The authors found out that, between 2006 and 2016, there was a clear OECD-wide shift toward giving students less choice over reading. The data also make clear that our mental pictures of how other nations approach schooling can be unreliable, which urges caution when arguing that the U.S. needs to be more like Country X or Y. For instance, the numbers make it appear the U.S. was doing more "Common Core-like" reading instruction in 2006—a few years before the Common Core was introduced—than were most OECD nations. One massive shift in U.S. practice when it came to reading, it massively outpaced the OECD norm when it came to fourth-graders reporting that they "use computers to write stories and texts at least once a week."
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