MARLEN V. RONQUILLO
The depressing report of the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) — that our 15-year-old students are the second most mediocre in the world in English, math and science — came at the same time Sundar Pichai was named the head of Alphabet, the parent company of Google, which had a market cap of $818.16 billion as of the first quarter of 2019.