Guest commentary: We need a new performance claim in education
Ludger Wößmann, head of the Ifo Centre for Educational Economics, is calling for a uniform core Abitur to stop the Pisa decline. Hamburg and England show that reforms pay off.
German youths' performance in maths, reading and science has plummeted to a historic low in the Pisa test, falling below the level that triggered the Pisa shock 25 years ago. The decline has been ongoing since around 2012. The proportion of those who do not progress beyond the lowest level of maths competency has doubled since 2015 to over a third, while the share of those achieving the top two competency levels has more than halved since 2012, from over 17 percent to under eight percent.
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