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Many countries are struggling to reconcile greater flexibility in school choice with the need to ensure quality, equity … and coherence in their school systems. This report provides an international perspective on issues related to school … choice, especially how certain aspects of school-choice policies may be associated with sorting students into different …
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The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) examines what students know in reading, mathematics and science, and what they can do with what they know. It provides the most comprehensive and rigorous international assessment of student learning outcomes to date. Results from...
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The report links the results from the OECD PISA 2000 survey to qualitative evidence on important public policy measures in six countries that performed well in PISA. These measures included strategies for educational reform and innovation; issues of governance and resource allocation; national...
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Many socio-economically disadvantaged students excel in PISA. Students who succeed at school despite a disadvantaged …
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a school system, the level of public funding to privately managed schools is: the higher the proportion of public …
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, Chapter 1 presents a summary of features shared by "successful" school systems. Chapter 2 details how resources, policies and … organisational features (how students are sorted into grades, schools, and programmes, school autonomy, etc.) of schools and systems … (behaviours, discipline, parental involvement, school leadership, etc.) and how they affect performance. The final chapter …
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Teachers are the most important resource in today’s schools. In every country, teachers’ salaries and training represent the greatest share of expenditure in education. And this investment in teachers can have significant returns: research shows that being taught by the best teachers can...
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This first volume of PISA 2009 survey results provides comparable data on 15-year-olds' performance on reading, mathematics and science across 65 countries. The volume opens with an introduction explaining what PISA is and how PISA 2009 is different from previous PISA surveys. The introduction...
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because those with stronger approaches to learning get better results at school but also because young adults who are able to …
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