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The Global Learning Recession
**Alarming **new data shows that the academic decline among 15-year-olds around the world is continuing, and in some cases getting worse.
PISA assessed roughly 760,000 15-year-olds across 42 countries to measure how this generation of students compares with those who came before them. The steep declines recorded in 2022 were widely attributed to the disruption caused by COVID-era school closures, but the latest results suggest the problem has persisted well beyond the pandemic.
Rather than rebounding, students are falling even further behind.
Two takeaways stand out:
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