Education at School Level – Good News for Germany

Compared with the other European countries, the result of the PISA studies conducted by OECD to the mathematical and language skills of children was taken seriously by Germany. There were many newspaper reports on this issues. People were talking about  it very often. Politicians were quoting it. Probably they never even imagined that their school method could be  as inadequate as reflected by these reports. The government also was trying to take some action. But even before that, the teachers on their own, have been trying with an extra effort to remedy the situation. Now the latest news is that the IGLU study has concluded and the findings have been published in all German newspapers. I could find any shorter version or a summary . But he detailed report is here http://pirls.bc.edu/isc/publications.html (download the International Report). There are a lot of information (438 pages) with complete details of the research. For Germany , they have improved their ranking from 2003 PISA study (18th place) to 11th place.  The rumour also has it that the Germany has improved also in the upcoming PISA report scheduled for Dec 4th 2007.