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The OECD’s triennial trawl of school test results across the world, known as PISA, showed that teenagers’ marks dipped after the covid-19 pandemic. Governments had hoped for a rebound when the organisation published its latest findings. But 15-year-olds today are testing at levels of 14-year-olds a decade ago.
Policymakers must try harder.
If you believe the social-media rants of the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, Britain’s cities are stricken with violent crime. In fact, its metropolises are getting safer quickly. It is in rural places that violence is trickier to tackle. As
our article explains,
a changing market for illegal drugs is largely to blame.
Finally, on this month’s Inside Tech, my colleagues Alex Hern and Alok Jha discuss the likelihood of an AI gaining consciousness—and ask what would follow if it ever arrived.
Watch from 6pm London time.
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