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 …

-selective and comprehensive school systems that seek to provide all students with similar opportunities, leaving it to individual … schools and teachers to meet the particular needs of every student. Other countries group students, whether in different … schools or in different classes within schools, with the aim of serving students according to their particular academic …

By international standards, Norway has an inclusive education system. However, immigrant students, on average, have … measures to improve the situation of immigrant students. There is scope to improve access to quality early childhood education … and care, especially for immigrant children; enhance capacities of teachers and school leaders to be more responsive to …

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

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