PISA-shock

The terrible truth about reading rates in Australia (and how to fix them)

By Sue Thomson

One in five of all our students fail to achieve minimum levels of reading or maths. That’s shocking. What’s even more shocking is that if you look at the pool of disadvantaged students, that figure skyrockets to one in three, compared to one in ten among advantaged students. But some disadvantaged students beat the odds and

PISA-shock: how we are sold the idea our PISA rankings are shocking and the damage it is doing to schooling in Australia

By Aspa Baroutsis and Bob Lingard

When the first PISA results were released in 2001, there was a reaction in Germany that is now