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The student revolt of May 1968 led to chaos across France, temporarily shaking the economic and political establishment … normal exam procedures throughout the higher education system. For example, the important examination taken for the … at an early (and highly selective) stage of the higher education system. The events enabled a significant proportion of …
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In France, secondary school teachers are evaluated every six or seven years by senior experts of the Ministry of … education. These external evaluations mostly involve the supervision of one class session and a debriefing interview, but have …' core pedagogical skills. These positive effects persist over time and are particularly salient in education priority …
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The tracking of pupils by ability into elite and non-elite schools represents a controversial policy in many countries. There is no consensus on how large the elite track should be and little agreement on the effects of any further increase in its size. This paper presents a natural experiment...
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With the rise of polarization and extremism, the question of how best to transmit civic virtues across generations is more acute than ever. In this paper, we test the hypothesis that schools can be the place for this transmission by empowering students and gathering them around concrete and...
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The need for education to help every child rather than focus on average attainment has become a more central part of … direct and indirect (spillover) effects. Thus, the analysis suggests that a key way that English education purports to help …
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With the rise of polarization and extremism, the question of how best to transmit civic virtues across generations is more acute than ever. In this paper, we test the hypothesis that schools can be the place for this transmission by empowering students and gathering them around concrete and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013169059
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In France, secondary school teachers are evaluated every six or seven years by senior experts of the Ministry of … education. These external evaluations mostly involve the supervision of one class session and a debriefing interview, but have …' core pedagogical skills. These positive effects persist over time and are particularly salient in education priority …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012003746
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It is difficult to know whether widening access to schools which provide a more academically oriented general education …
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