This paper investigates whether teenagers are educationally advantaged if their parents are educators, using PISA data … for Great Britain and Ireland. It examines whether teachers’ children do better at tests of reading ability. The results … show that children whose fathers teach at third level or whose mothers teach at second level do better and these effects …

This paper models the probability of 15-year-old children missing school or being late. The paper sets out to uncover … poor attendance. However students who feel positively about their teachers are less likely to have bad attendance …. Similarly where students feel there is a good disciplinary climate in the class they are also less likely to have poor …