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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 has flagged some intriguing findings.
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.
