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 …

--and potentially more important--all students, even the more highly motivated ones, respond to lower tuition levels by decreasing their …-subsidy, low-tuition policies have both disincentive effects on students' study time and adverse effects on human capital …