The Brown Center on Educational Policy, part of the Brookings Institute, recently released this 38-page report entitled "How Well Are American Students Learning?" The report is divided into three sections, each focusing on a distinct issue in contemporary American education. The first section examines the performance of U.S. students on two international tests: the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) and the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Society (TIMSS). The second section explores the experiences of foreign exchange students in the United States, following up on a 2001 Brookings Institute report on the same subject. Finally, the third section investigates racial disparities in U.S. public school children receiving disciplinary suspensions from school. This section also identifies shared characteristics of schools with unusually high suspensions.