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Countering Educational Poverty by Raising Learning Outcomes of Young People




AuthorsZelinka, Jozef; Jablonczay, Nikoletta; Zarifis, Georgios K.; Järvinen, Tero

EditorsTikkanen, Jenni; Parreira do Amaral; Marcelo, Järvinen; Tero; Alves, Natália

PublisherBloomsbury Publishing Plc

Publication year2026

Book title Constructing Learning Outcomes: Problematizing (Under)Achievement in Europe

First page 51

Last page76

ISBN978-1-3504-4590-1

eISBN978-1-3504-4592-5

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.5040/9781350446717.ch-2

Publication's open availability at the time of reportingOpen Access

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Web address https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350446717.ch-2

Self-archived copy’s web addresshttps://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/506138182


Abstract

The decline in German students’ performance in the PISA study is a cause for great concern. Good education is the most important basis for our prosperity … In math and reading, the performance of 15-year-olds is a whole school year behind where it was just four years ago. This decline in educational results is unprecedented. Performance has even fallen below the level that triggered the first PISA shock about 20 years ago. In this most recent study, German students’ performance in mathematics dropped by 25 PISA points, which will cost Germany around EUR 14 trillion in economic output by the end of the century.


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The CLEAR project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation funding programme under Grant Agreement No. 101061155.


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