I was born in Australia but grew up in England
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The first Pisa results caused a sensation in several countries, particularly the US which found itself below neighbouring Canada. Yet Schleicher, who lives in Paris with his Italian wife, also an educational researcher, reserves his most dismissive comments for the school system to which he entrusts his own children, aged 17, 15 and 11. Is he satisfied with the French state schools they attend, I ask. "No," he replies. "It is one of the most backward school systems. It is very much rote learning." He says he kept his children in the system because he didn't want to isolate them.