Global Student Test Scores Plunge as Parental Engagement Falters

Across the developed world, a generation of fifteen-year-olds is emerging from their formative years with measurably diminished reading abilities — a decline that three consecutive PISA cycles, spanning 2018 to 2025, have now made impossible to dismiss as coincidence or noise. What distinguishes this moment from ordinary fluctuations in educational performance is the parallel retreat of families from the educational lives of their children, suggesting that the crisis lives not only inside classrooms but within the broader social compact that has always surrounded learning. The slow erosion of