Hesse's Minister of Education Schwarz calls the PISA results alarming

For Hesse's Minister of Education Armin Schwarz (CDU), the Germany-wide Pisa results are, in his own words, "alarming". “These results and challenges must be responded to,” he explained in Wiesbaden. Hessen is already on the way with its new educational opportunity package.

With another German lesson in the first grade, reading times and math support lessons, the focus is clearly on promoting basic skills, explained Schwarz. The subject “AI and the Digital World” strengthens the students’ digital future skills.

Minister of Education: Mobile phone ban helps concentrated learning

Schwarz referred to the introduction of smartphone protection zones in Hessian schools last school year. This counteracts uncontrolled cell phone use and ensures that learning can be more concentrated in class.

In the new Pisa education study, students in Germany are performing worse than ever before. In reading, mathematics and natural sciences, the 15-year-olds tested achieved “the lowest competency scores since the PISA survey began,” according to the new edition of the international comparative study. The results are therefore lower than those of the first PISA study in 2000.