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Learning a living : first results of the adult literacy and life skills survey
2005
Based on the Adult Literacy and Life Skills survey conducted in Bermuda, Canada, Italy, Mexico (Nuevo Leon), Norway, and the United States of America in 2003 and 2004, this book presents an initial set of findings that shed new light on the twin processes of skill gain and loss. The book opens...
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Learning a Living : First Results of the Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey
2005
Based on the Adult Literacy and Life Skills survey conducted in Bermuda, Canada, Italy, Mexico (Nuevo Leon), Norway, and the United States of America in 2003 and 2004, this book presents an initial set of findings that shed new light on the twin processes of skill gain and loss. The book opens...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012443668
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Lessons from PISA for the United States
2011
US President Obama has launched one of the world’s most ambitious education reform agendas. Under the heading “Race to the Top”, this agenda encourages US states to adopt internationally benchmarked standards and assessments that prepare students for success in college and the workplace:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012448420
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Policy brief on incubators and accelerators that support inclusive entrepreneurship
Europäische Kommission; OECD - 2019
This policy brief explores the benefits of incubators and accelerators, how they support inclusive entrepreneurship, what makes them successful and how the EU can learn from the experiences of other countries. While there are relatively few examples of business incubators and accelerators that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012107152
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Lessons from PISA 2012 for the United States
2013
This report compares the performance of 15-year-olds in the United States in PISA against the global patterns and trends. But it goes beyond the aggregate level analysis that have so far been published in the PISA 2012 reports, to give analysis of student performance on individual mathematics...
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Lessons from PISA for the United States
2011
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Different Paths to a Market Economy: China and European Economies in Transition
Bouin, Olivier (contributor) - 1998
's Republic of China are often, wrongly, taken as alternative approaches to the same problem. In reality, there is great … complexity, not only in the environments of these two great regions -- for China is as big as a region by itself -- but also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012441096
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Trends in Urbanisation and Urban Policies in OECD Countries : What Lessons for China?
2010
China has became the world’s largest urban nation with today over 600 million urban citizens, a figure that is … projected to reach 900 million by 2050. Its national economy is already concentrated in cities: almost 65% of China’s GDP was … produced in its 53 metropolitan regions in 2004. Although the scale of China’s urbanisation – and the growing number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012443038