Germany's education ministers are reacting to the decline in performance of primary school students in reading, writing and arithmetic. First to fourth graders will receive a uniform minimum level of German, math and science lessons.
The three subjects are said to make up more than half of the lessons at primary schools in Germany. Several federal states, including Saxony-Anhalt, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Bavaria, recently announced that primary school children should receive more lessons in German and mathematics.