it uses in-kind incentives conditional on achievement of a specific target for academic grades, behaviour and attendance …, coupled with information sessions on the importance of educational achievement. In 2012, all Indigenous students enrolled in … Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, and provides an evaluation of its effectiveness. The program is of special interest as …

This study describes the design and the ex-ante evaluation of an Intercultural Bilingual Education1 Program in the …

effect of a policy reform. Chapters 2 to 4 provide a contribution to the literature on economics of education and investigate … the impact of three educational institutions on student achievement. Chapter 5 evaluates the success of the Federal …

quality of basic education for a large fraction of the Black African population is still very low. This study identifies … several hurdles to the upgrading of basic education quality, such as the lack of investment in school infrastructure and … be further addressed by vocational education reforms and an alleviation of credit constraints at the tertiary level …

in migrant parents' socio-economic background, cultural capital, and language skills. Education policy needs to focus on …' achievement scores lag well behind those of their native-born schoolmates. Performance gaps are explained largely by differences …-born populations. With the wealth of many industrialized countries threatened by a lack of qualified labor, education of immigrants …

second language. This presents a challenge to education policy: when and how in the school programme should a transition to …For many children around the world, access to higher education and the labour market depends on becoming fluent in a … number of schools have changed their policy, thus creating within-school, cross-grade variation in the language of …