Education Pride: More German and math in Bavaria’s primary schools
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As a consequence of the poor Pisa results, not only more German but also more math will be taught in Bavaria’s primary schools in the future. Culture Minister Anna Stolz (Free Voters) presented a comprehensive and concrete package of measures in Munich on Friday that goes beyond recent announcements by Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) this week.
As a consequence of the poor PISA results, In the future, Bavaria’s primary schools will not only be taught more German, but also more math. Culture Minister Anna Stolz (Free Voters) presented a comprehensive and concrete package of measures in Munich on Friday that goes beyond recent announcements by Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) this week.
Specifically, there should be an additional hour of German in each grade from grades one to four, and an additional hour of mathematics in the first and fourth grades. With the help of a flexible timetable, each school can set individual priorities at the same time, the ministry said.
“The mandatory requirements allow us to create more time for reading, writing and arithmetic,” said Education Minister Stolz. “Within this fixed framework, the schools also receive additional educational freedom. After all, the teachers are the local professionals who know their students best.”
At the winter retreat of the CSU state parliamentary group in Banz Monastery in Upper Franconia, Söder only announced an additional hour of German per grade level, but left everything else open.
German students recently performed shockingly poorly in the international performance study Pisa. In reading as well as in mathematics and science, the 15-year-olds delivered the worst results ever measured in Pisa in Germany. Pisa is the largest international school performance comparison study led by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Germany is one of a handful of countries where the decline in performance during Corona was particularly pronounced.
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2024-01-19 18:22:16
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