topic Education

Innovation in Education

The international school benchmarking study PISA [more] and the domestic German benchmarking study PISA-E [more] have revealed central deficits in the German education system. German pupils show below-average performance in central areas, such as reading, mathematics and the sciences. In no other industrialized country is the social background so decisive for success in school and for education opportunities as in Germany. At the same time, the integration of children and young people with a migration background is clearly less successful.

We need a change in the orientation of our education policy. Our school system must lead to a higher performance level and must enable more children and young people to earn higher education qualifications. In schools, the strengths and individual abilities and background of each child must be in the centre. The principle of challenging and supporting must be followed consistently.

The competition for future opportunities for Germany has essentially become an international competition for the quality of education systems. An education reform therefore requires a national effort of all stakeholders and a broad debate in society across ideological barriers.

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  topic Education

  All-day schools - The investment programme "The Future of Education and Care"

  The all-day school programme is one of the largest federal and state initiatives in the area of education. The Federal Government supports the sustainable structuring of all-day schools through the programme "More ideas! All-day learning," the regional service agencies "All-Day Learning" in the individual Länder, and the concurrent research project "Study on the Development of All-Day Schools" (StEG), in which all 16 Länder participate. The Federal Government has supported the Länder in their development and expansion of over 8,200 all-day schooling through the investment programme "The Future of Education and Care" (IZBB) from 2003 to 2009. In the meantime, 51.1 per cent of the country's general schools at the primary and lower secondary levels offer all-day school programmes.
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