Three Thoughts on the PISA 2018 Results
Here are my top three reflections on last week’s launch of the PISA 2018 results.
Tackling Education Poverty With System-Wide Improvements
On 17 October, 2019, the World Bank announced a new goal and initiative to measure and eliminate education poverty. This is an exciting step in tackling the learning crisis. Their measure of education poverty focuses on a single, simple indicator: that every child should read fluently by Grade 4.
What Have We Learned about the Learning Crisis?
That learning in many developing countries is in crisis has been well-established. The learning crisis was the focus of the World Bank’s World Development Report 2018, and UN global education goals highlight the need for improved learning. Yet, we are still learning much about the contours of the learning crisis, with important implications for how to address it.
There Is a Learning Crisis at the Top, Too: New Results from PISA-D
The learning crisis, that many children in school are learning too little, has been well documented with a variety of sources: ASER in India and its variants on citizen surveys in other countries, the DHS has added a simple reading assessment, and some develo
PISA-D Reveals Exceptionally Low Learning
Internationally comparable data on learning levels in developing countries is severely limited.