The initiative launched this Monday, within the framework of the National Campaign for Literacy Promoted by more than 200 civil society organizations, it seeks to highlight the importance of reading at home through a series of graphic and audiovisual spots.
Only 45 out of 100 students They reach the sixth grade of primary school in the expected time and with satisfactory learning in Language and Mathematics, according to the report “School Results Index Evolution and analysis by department“, from the Observatory of Argentines for Education and Sandra Ziegler.
The National Campaign for Literacy began in May 2023 with the purpose of make visible the problematicin a country where 1 in 2 boys 3rd grade students do not understand what they read, and ask governments to generate public policies to reverse the situation.
What drives the campaign
Both the national authorities and 18 governors signed the Commitment to Literacywhere months later, they announced 24 literacy plans jurisdictions and the National Literacy Plan to strengthen writing and reading.
“The fact that parents encourage reading at home “is essential to help their children achieve better reading comprehension and to strengthen a reading culture in the country,” he said. Ignacio Ibarzabalexecutive director of Argentinos por la Educación.
He Argentine Advertising Council promotes the campaign, to provide through communication, enthusiasm and invitation to all those who make up the educator ecosystem to promote “everyday cultural spacesand thus contribute to strengthening the literacy and reading comprehension of childhood,” commented Florence Saguierpresident of the CPA.
The critical context of the educational system
According to the latest international evaluations of UNESCOhe 46% of the boys and girls in 3rd grade of our country, does not understand a text appropriate to his age, and that figure amounts to 61.5% among students of lower socioeconomic status.
The PISA 2022 international assessments show that 7 out of 10 students 15 years old, from the lowest socioeconomic level, do not reach the minimum level in reading, while in the highest socioeconomic level, 3 out of 10 do not achieve this performance.
The school path gap It deepens in secondary school, where only 13 out of every 100 students They reach their final year within the expected theoretical time and with satisfactory knowledge of Language and Mathematics.
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