While the new PISA study has set off alarm bells in government and the business community, there is less concern at Sortedamskolen. After all, PISA does not measure everything.

At a school in Østerbro, students have also become worse at reading, but they can do so much else

Kira Schlifer is a teacher at Sortedamskolen. We meet at 9:40 a.m. and follow her through two ninth-grade lessons, then spend the lunch break in the teachers’ lounge. We are done by noon. The occasion is a new PISA study, which will be released on Tuesday. Foto: Thomas Borberg

The smell of bolognese fills a classroom at Sortedamskolen, where students in 9.U have opened their packed lunches. They have just come back after an hour in 4.U, where they read aloud to the younger children. Their teacher, Kira Schlifer, asks the room how it went.

»Mine couldn’t sit still«, a boy says.

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