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PISA Scores help and hurt... of course, the world won't be happy until every country and every child and every system is at the 100th percentile - something that won't happen. From Valerie Strauss about what Finland should do as the result of their "slipping" scores. In the Washington Post. "Finland should also continue to let national education and youth policies - and not PISA - drive what is happening in schools. Reading, science, and mathematics are important in Finnish education system but so are social studies, arts, music, physical education, and various practical skills. Play and joy of learning characterize Finland's pre-schools and elementary classrooms. "

Remember one thing as you look at these scores - not all students are tested in many countries and in many countries only the brightest go to school. In my opinion, these tests have some serious flaws. For example, I don't play cricket - my scores would be low -- I don't know that I'm so upset about that. While math, science, and reading are important -- standards vary greatly between countries -- so unless we're going to prep for PISA scores. Also on another note -- comparing "Shanghai to nations makes me wonder - I'm sure there are certain cities in the US that would do very well on such a test. Anyway, I want to look deeper, but I think before we rattle cages and get too upset, the report should be looked at deeply but not only the report - but the test. I remember getting upset that my kindergartener scored in the 60th percentile on "environment" only to see that he missed that a judge was supposed to be a guy in a grey wig (who does that) and couldn't identify a subway turnstile (we live in a town of 5,000). Since that time, I always want to see the test. Lots of people will be talking about this so look at it and be prepared to answer questions. This is the post from Aljazeera so you can see what other countries are saying about the report. "Asian countries have topped the rnakings in a global education report which evaluates the knowledge and skills of 15 and 16-year-olds around the world. The report by Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), published on Tuesday, shows that children from Asian nations continue to outshine their western counterparts in maths, science and reading. The city of Shanghai topped the table in the three-yearly reported which tested more than 510,000 students in 65 countries. Children in Shanghai were, on average, the equivalent of nearly three years of schooling ahead of the majority of nations tested."

¿Cuál es la causa de que los jóvenes sean reacios a estudiar y de que la violencia aumente en la escuela? ¿A qué se debe que España se encuentre en el último tercio de la escala de la evaluación internacional (PISA) con respecto a la educación? Y ¿Porqué hay tantos profesores y maestras "quemadas"?.Son cuatro preguntas distintas, pero con una sola respuesta: El sistema de educación es obsoleto por que se basa en los conceptos de la era de la industrialización y no de la información y el conocimiento.Se fundamenta en el caduco paradigma cartesiano ("pienso, luego soy") en lugar del paradigma holístico ("soy, luego pienso").La obra no solamente le ayudará a entender las causas de la situación actual -en la que la educación se concentra casi exclusivamente en el desarrollo intelectual- sino que le ofrece modelos alternativos, más humanísticos que tienen en cuenta el desarrollo integral del SER de los jóvenes en todas sus facetas: lo físico, lo psíquico, lo social y lo espiritual. Como consecuencia, la autora desea animar al profesorado a liberarse de muchas reglas y decretos que les dificultan la vida y a confiar más en su observación e intuición.A pesar de que el libro está principalmente  destinado al profesorado, será también muy útil a las madres y padres que están buscando nuevos caminos, más saludables y eficaces de educar a sus hijos.