Germany's economic success presents something of an educational puzzle. On the one hand, its schools turn out a workforce capable of producing the goods that have made its companies the export champions of the world. On the other, the academic achievements of its schoolchildren, measured in international tests, look only mediocre. The reading abilities of German 15-year-olds, according to the pisa studies published by the oecd, are below the average for rich countries.
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