The week brought several negative news items, but the PISA 2025 results were considered the heaviest for the collective future. This international assessment program evaluates the performance of 15-year-old students in literacy, numeracy, and science competencies.
The analysis was conducted by Pedro Siza Vieira and Pedro Marques Lopes, with moderation by Paulo Baldaia, in the "Bloco Central" space. Pedro Marques Lopes made a critical observation about the level of parliamentary debates, humorously suggesting that many MPs, given what they demonstrate in their knowledge, would obtain worse results than the students evaluated in PISA if they were subjected to the same test.
The PISA 2025 results appear to have revealed significant problems in the education system, which explains the weight given to this news compared to other bad news of the week. The comparison made by Marques Lopes serves as a comment on the quality of political debate and literacy in Portugal.
