Programme For International Student Assessment - Reception

Reception

For many countries, the results from PISA 2000 were surprising. In Germany and the United States, for example, the comparatively low scores brought on heated debate about how the school system should be changed. Some headlines in national newspapers, for example, were:

  • "La France, élève moyen de la classe OCDE" (France, average student of the OECD class) Le Monde, December 5, 2001
  • "Miserable Noten für deutsche Schüler" (Abysmal marks for German students) Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, December 4, 2001
  • "Are we not such dunces after all?" The Times, United Kingdom, December 6, 2001
  • "Economic Time Bomb: U.S. Teens Are Among Worst at Math" Wall Street Journal December 7, 2004
  • "Preocupe-se. Seu filho é mal educado." (Be worried. Your child is badly educated.) Veja November 7, 2007
  • "La educación española retrocede" (Spanish education moving backwards) El País December 5, 2007
  • "Finnish teens score high marks in latest PISA study" Helsingin Sanomat November 30, 2007

The results from PISA 2003 and PISA 2006 were featured in the 2010 documentary Waiting for "Superman".

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