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The topic of the day: School Survey of teenagers
Well, what do you do with it now? Everyone can read what they like in the results of the PISA study.
Thus, a finding that German teachers have done a good job of integrating immigrants is justified by the fact that the mediocre result (15th place) in reading skills would otherwise be worse than already.
Is it good? No, at best satisfactory. The key finding for Germany unfortunately remains: the school system balances social imbalances worse than in many other states. Anyone who comes from a wealthy, educated middle-class home, has greater chances to get far. Who is not, who is not.
It is also dramatic that the skills of the German final group, ie the worst student, and the best - these are of course the high school students - continue to drift apart while reading. The strong spread in social and performance was typically German in every previous PISA study, and it is intensifying. Germany does not learn it.
It is also depressing that many nations with whom Germany would like to compare are performing much better. Some of them are far ahead of Germany: Estonia, Finland, Canada, South Korea and Poland.
Not only the reading competence is badly ordered. The desire to read is also declining for German 15-year-olds, as is the case almost everywhere: One third thinks reading is a waste of time. Many only read to obtain information. Wikipedia beats Goethe, Frisch and Herrndorf.
The - largely powerless - Federal Education Minister Anja Karliczek in any case is disappointed overall. "Mediocrity can not be our claim."
The number of the day: 42
So many kilometers is the African swine fever still away from Germany, since near the Polish village Nowogrod Bobrzanski a dead boar died of the pathogen. The border to Brandenburg is not far, German pigmeat see their operations in danger, Denmark has built against the upcoming epidemic a boar fence. The disease is rampant in Asia, and Poland has seen more than a dozen new cases.
News: What you need to know today
- State violence: Iran has admitted that it has been fired at crackdown on protests. Amnesty International reports 200 deaths.
- No more than six months in office: Finnish Prime Minister Antti Rinne resigns while his country holds the EU Presidency.
- Nato summit in London: Donald Trump has used his first appearance in front of cameras in Europe for an attack on French President Emmanuel Macron.
- Ashes issued by Holocaust victims? The "Center for Political Beauty" has unearthed supposedly burnt remains that are said to come from victims of the Nazi dictatorship and filled them in Berlin in a stehle. Jewish organizations are appalled.
- Drought and Crisis in Zimbabwe: The UN World Food Program announces that in the South African country now every second is suffering acute hunger.
- And the Goldener Windbeutel goes to: The Kindertomatensauce of a bio manufacturer receives the negative price from Foodwatch, because he has exaggerated it with sweeteners. This and other losers in the overview.
Opinion: The most discussed comments, interviews, essays
Give away more axes! During Advent, Marga Stokowski sees all gender-civilizing achievements blown away. Women what gentle pink, men the knife in brown. The columnist demands: Give to the patriarchy.
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Darling, will you give me an ax?
Reporter hears: The designated SPD chairmen are accompanied by SPIEGEL reporters. That worked well for Martin Schulz and Karl Lauterbach - at least for the reporters, says Harald Schmidt. The video.
Stories: The most read texts at SPIEGEL +
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And now: aim well
Only every fifth bullet hits: Why shoot German police so miserable and create only 20 percent hit rate? SPIEGEL colleague Andreas Ulrich conducts cause research.
Reichstag fire: 86 years after the great fire in the German parliament, which the Nazis used to consolidate their power, it emerges: The witness, an SA man, was a psychopath.
My evening: the recommendations for your end of workday
As you know from Pisa: too little is read . First of all, be sure to read to the children first, if you have any. And then get "The Old Man and the Sea" by Hemingway out of the closet (or on the reader). The epic fight of the fisherman Santiago with the giant marlin they read off in an evening, promised. Small spoiler: It will be twice as exciting when the sharks appear!
I wish you a nice finishing time.
warmly
Christoph Titz from the Daily Team
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