is possible, and provides students, parents, policy makers and other education stakeholders insights into what enables …Many socio-economically disadvantaged students excel in PISA. Students who succeed at school despite a disadvantaged … background -- resilient students -- are the focus of Against the Odds. The report shows that overcoming barriers to achievement …

While enrolment in tertiary education has increased dramatically over the past decades, many university-aged students … further education, it is equally important to ensure that students’ expectations are well-aligned with their actual abilities …. Grade Expectations: How Marks and Education Policies Shape Students' Ambitions reveals some of the factors that influence …

educational performance for 41 countries collected in 2003, together with students’ responses to the PISA 2003 questionnaires and …

in students’ backgrounds. Countries covered: Canada, England, Finland, France, the Netherlands and Sweden. …

of students by ability or socio-economic status. At the macro level, school segregation can deprive children of … choice, especially how certain aspects of school-choice policies may be associated with sorting students into different … opportunities to learn, play and communicate with other children from different social, cultural and ethnic backgrounds, which can …