{
  "id": 9463559,
  "title": "What PISA keeps telling us about foundations",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/24/what-pisa-keeps-telling-us-about-foundations",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-24T02:09:09.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Jakarta Post",
    "slug": "the-jakarta-post",
    "url": "https://www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2026/09/24/what-pisa-keeps-telling-us-about-foundations.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}