Primary school enrolment rates are very low in francophone Africa. In order to enhance education supply, many countries have launched large teacher recruitment programmes in recent years, whereby teachers are no longer engaged on civil servant positions, but on the basis of (fixed-term)...

By the 2008/09 school year the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) abolished binding school catchment areas (SCAs) in all municipalities. The reform has been controversial and it was feared that school choice would increase ethnic segregation. Using data on all primary schools, we...

In October 1998, we convened scholars, policy makers, and practitionersto review what we know about the processes that affect childdevelopment and how we might wisely increase public and privateinvestments in children to promote both their well-being and theproductivity of the next generation....

Children’s lives have been transformed over the past century. Family incomes haveincreased, children lead more solitary lives, attitudes to childhood have changed, newproducts have been developed and commercial pressures on children have increased.The importance of these commercial pressures...

In der Studie werden nachhaltigkeitsbezogene Einstellungen und Verhaltensweisen junger Menschen dargestellt. Dabei geht es um Konsumwelt, Bezüge zu Klimawandel und Anknüpfungspunkte zur Beförderung von Nachhaltigkeit. Dazu werden charakteristische Konsumtypen skizziert. Auf Basis der...

Eine Umfrage unter Schülerinnen und Schülern zeigt: Ein Drittel ist politisch aktiv. Zu den Aktiven gehört die klassische Klientel gut ausgebildeter und vernetzter Jugendlicher aus bürgerlichem Hause. Die Mehrzahl der politisch Engagierten allerdings sind religiös gebundene Jugendliche aus...