Students whose parents work in professional occupations generally outperform other students in mathematics, while … students whose parents work in elementary occupations tend to underachieve compared to their peers. The strength of the …. Finland and Japan achieve high levels of performance by ensuring that the children of parents who work in elementary …

Successful education systems are able to guarantee that all students succeed at high levels. Across OECD countries …, around 60% of the overall, country-level variation in student performance can be traced to differences in how well students …

Some 65% of socio-economically advantaged students reported that they know well or have often heard of the concept of … quadratic function, on average across OECD countries; but only 43% of disadvantaged students so reported. On average across OECD … countries, the 20% of students who are most exposed to pure mathematics tasks (equations) score, on the PISA mathematics test …

Immigrant students often have to overcome multiple barriers at once in order to succeed at school. Across most OECD … countries, poor performance among immigrant students relative to other students is strongly related to social disadvantage at … school, as reflected in the proportion of students whose mothers have low levels of education. The concentration, in a school …

Immigrant students who share a common country of origin, and therefore many cultural similarities, perform very … differently across school systems. The difference in performance between immigrant students and non-immigrant students of similar … socio-economic status is smaller in school systems with large immigrant populations and where immigrant students are as …

Countries where 15-year-old students perform at high standards internationally tend to be the same countries where … these young adults tend to perform well at the age of 26 to 28. School systems need to ensure that their students perform at …

Most students enjoy orderly classrooms for their language-of-instruction lessons. Socio-economically disadvantaged … students are less likely to enjoy orderly classrooms than advantaged students. Orderly classrooms – regardless of the school …

Schools are not only places where students acquire academic skills; they are also social environments where children … can develop the social and emotional competencies that they need to thrive. Yet despite the global interest in students … life at school. The data from PISA 2015 show that students differ greatly, both between and within countries, in how …

secondary school students benefit by actively exploring their futures in work. One indicator of better employment outcomes is … students reporting having career conversations with family members, peers and importantly, with subject teachers. This policy …