Główny temat z dnia Piątek, 30. Listopad 2007

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Tests for Europe's schoolchildren

Two new studies have reignited the debate about educational standards in schools: the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) and the OECD's Pisa study. How effective are the education systems of the different nations at educating their pupils?

Postimees - Estonia

Estonia ranks fifth in natural sciences in the latest Pisa study, just ahead of Japan and leaving its Baltic neighbours far behind. The newspaper expresses its satisfaction: "If this study and its methodology are to be believed, Estonia's school system surpasses levels in all Western European countries with the exception of the absolute leader Finland. But are Estonian pupils really so much cleverer and better at analysis than their European peers? At any rate, our school system certainly deserves a good grade, and even Education Minister Tonis Lukas points out that according to the Pisa study our syllabuses are nothing to be ashamed of. They have attained international standards." (30/11/2007)

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Więcej z przeglądu prasy na temat » Estonia, » Finlandia, » Cały świat

Der Standard - Austria

Michael Völker finds it worrying that Austria achieved only mediocre results in the Pisa study and the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), which is designed to assess the reading skills of children in the fourth year of primary school: "Hooray, we don't have to repeat! ... We can be satisfied with our 'C' grade - or maybe not. We have long given up any hope of belonging to class of the good or best pupils, like the Finns. For us the name of the game is: it's enough not to be left behind. We are content to be mediocre. ... Austria should model itself on Finland; we should be trying to be among the best. And if we take Finland as our role model we have no choice but to start a debate about the Gesamtschule (comprehensive school) model." (30/11/2007)

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Więcej z przeglądu prasy na temat » Austria
Wszystkie dostępne teksty » Michael Völker

La Voix du Luxembourg - Luksemburg

Laurent Moyse considers that despite Luxemburg's high ranking in the PIRLS rankings (sixth out of 45), "there remains a non-negligible number of students who consider reading a chore and textual interpretation an uncomfortable activity. ... The education system must find a way to balance the transmission of knowledge with a response to the difficulties of working with a diverse student body. One thing is certain: the education system has been sick for some years. If it is in this state, it is partly due to our society, which is sick as well, and which has delegated some of its responsibilities. Result: in reading, Luxemburg ranks last in student motivation." (30/11/2007)

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Więcej z przeglądu prasy na temat » Luksemburg, » Cały świat
Wszystkie dostępne teksty » Laurent Moyse

The Times - Wielka Brytania

After England slid from 3rd to 15th in the PIRLS study, the education secretary Ed Balls blamed Playstation for the student's poor score. Columnist Martin Samuel disagrees. "It seems rather strange that naughty old computers are getting the blame from the Education Secretary because our children now trail Latvia and America in a global assessment of reading performance. What happened to education, education, education? ... The future is bleak. Bulgaria, a country in which a person was recently torn apart by a roaming pack of wild dogs, still manages to get basic literacy skills across in a more satisfactory manner than England. Even America - a country in which many children spend at least two lessons each day cowering beneath tables from loner gunmen wrongly empowered by nihilist websites, drag-act musicians and Charlton Heston - does it better than us. ... still Mr Balls speculates, identifying the root of the problem as the free time, not the school time." (30/11/2007)

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Więcej z przeglądu prasy na temat » Wielka Brytania
Wszystkie dostępne teksty » Martin Samuel

Die Zeit - Niemcy

It was the advent of the Pisa study that internationalised education policy, write political scientists Kerstin Martens and Stephan Leibfried. With its Pisa study the international organisation [the OECD] developed an instrument for comparing national education systems. ... Even if a country wanted to it could no longer escape international competition - or the Pisa. ... The times of nation state-oriented policy are coming to an end, and no one is more aware of this than the closely interwoven EU member states. Internationalisation is inevitable - and also represents a great opportunity. This is another thing Pisa has taught us, because with its Pisa study the OECD triggered a long overdue debate about education, integration and family policy which up to that point had been inconceivable in Germany. ... Even our 'holy' triadic school system is now under discussion and has already been reformed in some German states. No matter how intense the debate becomes over the next few weeks, Pisa is not a curse but a blessing." (30/11/2007)

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Więcej z przeglądu prasy na temat » Niemcy, » Europa
Wszystkie dostępne teksty » Kerstin Martens, » Stephan Leibfried

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