# Australia’s classroom disruption among worst in world, prompting calls for ‘digital detox’

https://mins.news/en/item/49310

- The Guardian, 2026-09-08 07:30 UTC
- Society
- Original: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/08/australia-pisa-2025-test-score-results-national-decline-reading-maths

> Australia’s 2025 PISA results show public-school students scoring about 50 points below independent-school students in science, reading and maths—equivalent to two and a half years of study. Classroom noise and disorder also remain unusually high, prompting Education Minister Jason Clare to call for less screen time in schools.

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