What PISA keeps telling us about foundations
Indonesia’s latest PISA performance remains below the targets, but the broader trajectory contains genuine progress.
The Jakarta Post reports on Indonesia's PISA 2025 performance, which remains below target levels. However, the broader trend shows genuine progress, particularly in England's performance. Education Minister Jason Clare commended England's stability in PISA scores, which rose four places in reading, one in mathematics, and five in science.
This improvement is attributed to a disciplined, 14-year overhaul of early literacy instruction, particularly the adoption of systematic synthetic phonics as the primary method for early reading instruction. This approach, which teaches children to map letter-sound correspondences before blending them to decode words, has been credited with establishing a mechanical decoding foundation prior to sentence-level reading.
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