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Pisa scores: Has Singapore outsourced parenting to teachers?
Parents aren’t talking to their children about what they are learning. There are reasons for this.
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Teachers here are excellent at nurturing the young, but is that so because parents are walking off the job?
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A survey that followed the Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) 2022 test
Only about half of Singapore’s students said that their parents took an interest at least once a week in what they were learning. This is lower than the average of 66 per cent within the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which conducts the triennial study.
