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French education minister wants to improve schools after Pisa shock

France's Education and Youth Minister Gabriel Attal delivers a speech during the new school year meeting of rectors at the Sorbonne university in Paris on August 24, 2023. © EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP

French Minister of Education Gabriel Attal announced a series of measures on Tuesday to address the decline in academic performance following the 2022 Pisa study, which highlighted a "historic" decrease in French students' proficiency in mathematics.

After months of consultations with educators and in response to the publication of the 2022 "Pisa" study by the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) that showed abysmal results for France, Gabriel Attal, speaking to journalists, expressed the need to tackle the "challenge of raising the standard." i

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