Willingham: What causes performance decline across grades?
My guest today is cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia and author of “Why Don’t Students Like School?” By Daniel Willingham An “absolute wake up call.” That’s what Education Secretary Arne Duncan called the latest results of the the PISA test, which measures 10th grader’s achievement in reading, math, and science. If we’ve all been asleep up until now, we’ve really got trouble. U.S. kids did not shine, but the latest round of results of PISA, formally known as the Program for International Student Achievement, don’t look that different than what we’ve seen in the last decade.