OECD Study puts England at bottom for Maths and Literacy

[missinglalaland]

A major study by the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development puts England's 16 to 24 year olds at 22nd for Literacy and 21st for Numeracy out of 24 developed countries. Ouch!

What can we do to fix this? More money? Less permissiveness? Sorting by ability? Different teacher training? Longer school years? Different methods?

[mathanxiety]

It goes deeper than being unable to tackle the homework with your children, and it starts going downhill well before school age. Seeking only to get the kids off your back is far closer to a description of the problem.