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| Subject: Leftist OZschwitz 'education': The PISA problem: 'The rest of the world is moving away from us' Tue Dec 03, 2019 6:05 pm | |
| The alarming PISA results will trigger a frenzy of finger-pointing. Punters will blame schools. Politicians will blame each other. Experts will trot out their theories. Educators will get defensive. And parents will be rightly anxious.
None of this will help turn things around.
We must not panic. Knee-jerk reactions are disastrous in education; bad policy can have flow-on effects that last generations. There is no one thing that has driven the decline of our results as a nation compared with the rest of the world, nor any single thing that can fix it.
Some, like federal Education Minister Dan Tehan, will call on schools to go back to basics. But basics were not examined by PISA, although they may well be contributing to the poor results. PISA tests only examine how students apply what they've learned during their schooling to different situations.
https://www.smh.com.au/education/the-pisa-problem-the-rest-of-the-world-is-moving-away-from-us-20191203-p53get.html |
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