OCDE, Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development, is a cooperation entity between the biggest countries of the world. On 2000, it organized a test for 265 thousand students of different series, all 15 years old. 32 countries had participated of this test, mainly the most developed countries on Europe, America and Asia. The objective was seeing as each country students would understand when reading and solving simple mathematics and sciences problems.

Test had three parts: questions that simply involved to read and to understand a text; questions that involved numbers, amounts, or either, mathematical reasoning; and others questions on basic chemistry, biology etc.

On 2001 this test brought students results. On the top there were Finland, in the head, closely followed by Japan and Korea. U.S.A. had been in 15º place and Germany in 22º place. On last place, who was? Brazil.

We are soccer country, but it was a tremendous kick on our leg! But, when we have one hurt, a problem, we don´t have to hide it. It is necessary to see the problem clear and to be able to ask for help. Maybe it will bring a positive effect, sending an alert on our government about our children education.

Finishing, an interesting detail: in the average, the girls had been more successful than the boys on these tests, in all the searched countries!

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