Category: OECD

BBC eduction news · Daily Telegraph · OECD · Reading to your child

The parent factor in student performance (OECD)

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It sounds like a headline from the Daily Stands-back-in-amazement: the BBC education news desk reported yesterday that an OECD study has discovered there is ‘a strong link between teenage reading skills and early parental help’. Hmmm, you’re very likely calling to mind John Cleese’s ‘stating the bleeding obvious’ remark! Graeme Paton in the Telegraph has also picked up the story today, which… Continue reading The parent factor in student performance (OECD)

OECD · PISA data on maths · science and literacy

More news of falling standards from PISA

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I hesitate to put this posting on the blog because it feels like, well, here we are again! What do you know? Britain is still falling behind in the world rankings in literacy, maths and science.The latest performance tables, based on the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa), shows… Continue reading More news of falling standards from PISA

Literacy standards · OECD

‘Literacy Standards in the UK – A Reality Check’ by David Philpot

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Since the UN started large scale surveys of adult literacy in the developed world in the mid 90’s, politicians in all those countries that have English as their mother tongue have been at a loss to explain their appalling results. In English speaking countries around half of all adults are not sufficiently literate to cope… Continue reading ‘Literacy Standards in the UK – A Reality Check’ by David Philpot