PISA Decline: It Wasn't for Lack of Warning, but Lack of Rigor

Portugal's results in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) have declined, and Carla Castro argues that this situation does not represent a crisis of the public school system itself but rather the failure of a public education policy. The author maintains that the problem was not the absence of warning about what was occurring, but rather the lack of rigor in the policies implemented. Carla Castro is the author of this opinion piece published on the platform, presenting a critical analysis of the state of education in Portugal. The text indicates that there was a substitution of rigor with permissiveness in educational policies, which, according to the author, has led to the current scenario of declining results in PISA.