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Analysis, data and research on education and school management. No jargon.

PISA 2025: what the results measure, and what they do not say

Published on 3 October 2026

The OECD published the PISA 2025 results on 8 September 2026. More than 760,000 15-year-olds in 91 countries took the test; France scored 483 points in science, 458 in mathematics and 456 in reading,…

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Grade retention: what the research shows

Published on 3 October 2026

Grade repetition has fallen sharply in France: 40 percent of 15-year-olds had repeated a year at least once in 2003, against 11 percent in 2022 (OECD, PISA 2022). It remains a school-level decision. …

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