The important matters in school education are not waiting to be discovered, they are known. Many in education have reservations about the methodology of Pisa, and even more about the way its results are used and touted, reducing the richness and complexity of education to the absurdity of sport-like league tables. Nevertheless, Pisa is a mine of useful data, and the only widely available, rigorously conducted, periodic cross-country survey of school education, however reductionist. These points are more useful for anyone interested in education, but usually buried behind the league tables. A relevant quote, “The later students are selected into different schools or education programs and the less prevalent the incidence of grade repetition, the more equitable the school system.”ALSO READ: When education becomes a meaningless ritualThird, “school choice” mechanisms and structures foster inequity.

Source: Mint January 18, 2017 22:10 UTC