Inspiring new bookworms: in 2003, Switzerland's school kids scored a humiliating 'mediocre' on the so-called PISA study's global rankings in reading skills. Swiss News reports here on an alpine village's effort to heed the wake-up call.

Swiss NewsNbr. 2007, April 2007

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Inspiring new bookworms: in 2003, Switzerland's school kids scored a humiliating 'mediocre' on the so-called PISA study's global rankings in reading skills. Swiss News reports here on an alpine village's effort to heed the wake-up call.

The less said about PISA the better suggest some teachers understandably sensitive about the lacklustre performance of Swiss kids in global reading tests in recent years.

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But while some grumbled about the rating system used by the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), many others focused on i...

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