PISA 2025 finds widespread declines; Spain posts worst-ever result
New PISA data out England is now top ten in all three areas (reading, maths, science) and the second highest performing country outside of east Asia (after Estonia). This is a huge public policy success.
Sam Freedman152Devolution created a natural experiment here and we have the results. bsky.app/profile/tom-...
mwhoyle96.bsky.social28Cannot fathom how the gov want to dismantle this on the pretence that education is somehow driving youth unemployment.
Steven King24What does PISA measure? Could it be that some countries do things that PISA likes and others do it differently? Serious question because I don't know but I do think it's a hard, perhaps subjective, thing to assess.
PaulShrews3314I started teaching in 2011 and I loathed Michael Gove. Looking back, he got so much right. Education is the single biggest ( maybe only) policy achivement of that 14 year era.
Al Mac14we’re so successful at integration that some of our second generation immigrants are now prominent far right anti-immigrant politicians.
Ellie Harris9What do you make of the caveat on sampling? “But the pupils who didn’t respond were “slightly more likely” to speak English as a first language, to have been eligible for free school meals in the last six years and to receive a form of special educational needs support.”
Sam Freedman1515One reason England does so well is our second generation immigrants outperform their peers which is not true in most OECD countries. We are also very good at integration. And it's v sad that this is never acknowledge in debates on immigration.
Stephen Bush164It continually blows my mind the sheer number of obviously crackers ideas and excuse-making for failure from the last government that Labour have gone “seems legit!”…while at the same time Labour refuses to acknowledge the real, measurable success in education.
Jack Tindale110"England's schools consistently outperform Finland's ones" is another one of those public policy things where people's priors are massively out of date, isn't it?
Chris Terry-Enescu39And, amazingly, every political party thinks education needs a huge shake-up
Tim Bale11On days like this, thank heavens for not-so-small mercies!
John C10Fundamentally understated that, despite *gestures* we are a very well educated country
Toby Nangle9Best good news story on the day!
pickwick8Lots of journos analysing this very badly Recent public policy for 6 year olds won't have had an effect on the scores of 15 year olds lol Seems like England have got near the top by excluding more pupils from the stats than anyone else
Hannah Fearn8This IS a huge success but we also have a staggering number of children unable to access this high quality education under the current system too. Feels like the two come as a pair.
thepig9938And yet Labour are messing with this as higher education falls over totally
Sans surprise, le ministre de l'éducation arrive à expliquer qu'après dix ans de macronisme, les mauvais résultats Pisa sont la faute de tout le monde, sauf de l'État. www.lemonde.fr/societe/arti...
Johannes Herrmann (Phylloscopus)28Sans surprise, le manager toxique met la faute sur ses subordonnés, alors qu'il a pourtant tout fait : il a supprimé les moyens pour les pousser à être inventifs, il les a traînés dans la boue H24 "pour les sortir de leur zone de confort", il les a sous-payés, bref il a tout bien fait !
Hope Green9Ça serait super d'avoir des adultes responsables à des postes de pouvoir, ça changerait de ces grands enfants pour qui les actes n'ont aucune conséquence.
Sonulik8Ah non, c'est mieux que ça "Édouard Geffray pointe notamment les réseaux sociaux, «arme de destruction intellectuelle massive»"
chun-lili.bsky.social6Macron pourrait être à son 5eme mandat que ça jouerai encore les surpris à chaque problème
Eloi6C’est pas comme si ce ministre avait été directeur de l’enseignement scolaire pendant 5 ans 🙃
Lateralusian5Ces mecs ont passé 10 ans à tuer l'école et ils sont là "ah merde qui a bien pu faire ça !?"
They'll be a lot of chatter about England's PISA results this morning, but we need to talk just as much about Wales. They rejected phonics and knowledge-rich curricula in favour of 'areas of learning', 'skills suites' and barely any testing. Wales is now 40 points below England in every domain.
Tom Richmond45I'm also pretty convinced that Wales allowing schools to design their own curriculum to encourage them to "build their own vision for their learners" and provide "space for practitioners to be creative" is not a sensible way to improve national standards or build pupils' knowledge and understanding.
mattevansc3.bsky.social21Unless they are teaching phonics at 12 years old, those changes wouldn’t have impacted 15 year olds in 2025. The new curriculum removed assessments for primary schools. The 15 year olds in 2025 weren’t in primary schools when the new curriculum was introduced.
Laura McInerney16I’m still interested in the so what for this, though… Do we think it will materially affect their GDP? Or is it possible they traded results for a more chill life and it has no real effect?!
Hib Bird4I'd be very worried about bilingualism being scapegoated in all this. That doesn't seem to be where the problem is but it won't stop some people trying.
Rob Aitken3Requiring primary schools to teach phonics and times tables can both improve overall results and fail a significant minority of pupils. For instance dyslexic children are taught they are stupid and failing as they cannot learn phonics or memorise times tables. Taught other ways they can excel.
Andy Pearce 🇬🇧👨🏻💻3Is it potentially affected by other factors, however? For example, in England second-generation immigrants pupils out-perform non-immigrant pupils. What if Wales has a lower proportion of such pupils? Just one possible example, maybe not the best. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a9ea5...
Sam Freedman152Devolution created a natural experiment here and we have the results. bsky.app/profile/tom-...
Gerry Doyle15wales aside... I guess having some point of comparison is better than none, but I think pisa scores (and standardized testing in general) are kind of silly -- you can absolutely study for the test, and many countries are laser focused on this
Mark Wallace6You couldn’t get a better and more comparable mass experiment in the real world than this. The conclusions are clear, and yet the action is going in the wrong direction. bsky.app/profile/tom-...
LeithMotive5Devolved governments really fuck up education, don't they? Why? Default rejection of what works because England does it and they have a political need to differentiate from the national government?
Catio Miles2Education is not a short term project. You see the results after a very long time. but these are good results, which will be positive for our society, economy and politics for the next generation.
