It’s elementary: students benefit from pre-primary education. The OECD’s PISA 2009 results show that in practically all … OECD countries 15-year-old students who had attended some pre-primary school outperformed students who had not. In fact …, the difference between students who had attended for more than one year and those who had not attended at all averaged 54 …

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 …

substantially higher among the children of business owners than among the children of non-business owners. Using data from the …