The OECD said in a report released
Thursday that there is a big north-south divide in educational
attainment despite Italy having made "good progress in improving
the quality of schooling in recent years, with mean scores
rising overall in reading, math and science".
"While math scores are now in line with the OECD average,
Italy still lags behind other OECD countries in reading and
science," it said.
"The significant variation in student performance across the
country, with Southern regions consistently lagging behind the
others, remains a concern.
"For example, while students in the Autonomous Province of
Bolzano do as well as top performing nations like Korea,
students in Campania compare with their counterparts in Chile or
Bulgaria.
"In other words, the performance gap in PISA between students
in the Autonomous Province Bolzano and Campania is more than one
year of schooling".
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