PTPISA 2025 measured a reading behavior that is growing fast around the world: the hasty reader, who rushes through the text, skips paragraphs and returns a quick, wrong answer.
By José Brito, journalist, founder of Pupa Educação Digital and teacher at the AI and Digital Education Lab at Colégio MOPI.
Between 2018 and 2025, in OECD countries with comparable data, the share of these readers rose from 6.6% to 11.4%. In Brazil, scores remained stable, with 408 in Reading, 377 in Mathematics and 409 in Science, according to JEDUCA’s summary. The gap to the OECD average in Science fell from 113 points in 2006 to 73 in 2025, but this comes from the decline of wealthier countries, not from progress on our side.
What PISA 2025 measured about reading
“The most worrying decline is precisely in the skills that matter most in the age of AI: evaluating information, connecting multiple sources and thinking critically about what we read.”
Andreas Schleicher, OECD Director for Education and Skills, in the foreword to the report (free translation).
Also in this edition
- Cetic.br: what Brazilians share about their personal lives with generative AI
- Australia approves a levy on big tech advertising to fund local journalism
- Rose Luckin, from UCL: why minutes of screen time per day do not measure teaching practice
- Brazil’s ECA Digital: the deadline for the platforms’ first transparency report
Reading tip
O monge, o iogue e o faquir (The Monk, the Yogi and the Fakir), by Ronaldo Lemos, is the Estante Pupa recommendation in this edition, with the full review in the newsletter (in Portuguese).
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