(HRT) with additional classroom management duties significantly improves students' test scores and cognitive and …. More experienced or female HRTs are also associated with a better classroom environment, more self-motivated students, more …

education than public schooling. We apply multilevel regression on the 2009 PISA to estimate the differential effect of public … and private schooling on student scores in Australia. We control for observable and unobservable influences, at school and …

We examine whether parental and school investments reinforce or compensate for student performance. Our analysis … exploits school-starting-age rules in 34 countries, capturing achievement variation that arises because younger children … schools allocate weaker students to smaller classes and offer more remedial tutoring. Notably, parents provide more support to …

school. We show that students' enrollment intentions are very often inconsistent with their actual potential as revealed by …Previous research shows that, in tracked school systems, enrollment decisions are strongly associated with future … outcomes both in education and on the labour market. Yet few studies explicitly investigate whether students (and their parents …

all due to differences in what students bring with them to school – socio-economic background, cultural factors, and the …Students in some countries do far better on international achievement tests than students in other countries. Is this … like? Or do school systems make a difference? This essay argues that differences in features of countries' school systems …

declines and increasing number of the share of low performing students across European countries. Results of previous national …

schools and all pupils within these schools to analyse the role of the school in accounting for this variation. We analyse a … and attainment levels at the end of secondary schooling. We examine indicators that were the focus of the school … account for a minority of the variance in pupil attainment, and the extent of the variation accounted for by the school is …

influx can also increase the intensity of human capital accumulation among native adolescents who are enrolled in school …. Using the PISA micro data and implementing a quasi-experimental empirical strategy designed to exploit (i) the time … Turkish education system after 2016, which gave me the opportunity to use 2015 and 2018 PISA waves in a way to isolate the the …

. Recent evidence from North Carolina suggests that increases in Limited English students' concentration have led to a slight … decline in performance solely for students at the top of the achievement distribution. The heterogeneous peer effects by …. Utilizing fixed effects methods that allow us to address possible endogeneity with respect to the schools' students attend, we …

There is a perception among native born parents in the U.S. that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools … though negligible peer effects of Limited English (LE) students on achievement of other students, potential peer effects of … selectivity across time and schools. On average we find no evidence of negative peer effects of LE students on females and white …