The Guardian reports on declining performance in several European education systems in the 2025 Pisa results. Countries discussed include France, Germany, the Netherlands and Finland.
Pisa examines how 15-year-olds apply reading, mathematics and science knowledge. A country-level trend does not measure every school or pupil, and the underlying assessment context matters.
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The report describes weaker results in several European systems and differences between countries. Assessment scores measure particular skills in a defined age group. They are useful evidence for examining an education system, but they do not by themselves identify one cause or capture every outcome that schools are expected to support.
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