International comparisons in education have come in waves over the last several decades. As early as 1957, U.S. educators undertook reforms in mathematics and science curricula when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, creating fears that the U.S. was lagging in the space race. The 1983 landmark report A Nation at Risk (The National Commission on Excellence in Education, 1983) included recommendations to counter the increasing sense that the nation’s standing was in decline relative to the rest of the world due in part to failings of our education system. In their research, the authors of A Nation at Risk looked to data from other countries to consider what practices might be helping other nations excel in education. Recently, more educators have turned to international benchmarking