Msn.com echoes a Vox piece on the current state of K-12 education worldwide. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development runs the Programme for International Student Assessment or PISA.
PISA (is) a standardized global test of 15 year-olds' math, reading and science skills, administered by OECD. (It) finds that scores in all three subjects have dipped to their lowest levels in OECD countries since testing began in the early 2000s.
Reading scores fell especially sharply, by the equivalent of more than a year of education, between 2015 and 2025. In the US reading scores fell by roughly 14 percentage points between 2022 and 2025.
These results, based on a sample of 760,000 students from 91 countries, are among the most-watched educational metrics in the world. And the million dollar question -- as always -- is why those metrics continue to fall.
This isn't good news. This column raises many questions and provides few answers. I'm not clear about what factor(s) could be literally worldwide? Screens? They are nearly ubiquitous.
