The Department for Education and Employment in England has launched the Excellence in Cities (EiC) initiative, aimed at driving up standards in inner city schools. A key element of this initiative is the City Learning Centres (CLCs). By providing outstanding local facilities, the centres will...

It’s elementary: students benefit from pre-primary education. The OECD’s PISA 2009 results show that in practically all OECD countries 15-year-old students who had attended some pre-primary school outperformed students who had not. In fact, the difference between students who had attended...

Science project. The very phrase is nearly synonymous with hands-on learning, learning-by-doing, collaboration. Are students more engaged and do they perform better in science if their school encourages them to work on science projects, participate in science fairs, belong to a science-related...

School systems handle the challenges of diverse student populations in different ways. Some countries have non-selective and comprehensive school systems that seek to provide all students with similar opportunities, leaving it to individual schools and teachers to meet the particular needs of...

C’est une évidence : l’enseignement préprimaire est bénéfique pour les élèves. Les résultats de l’enquête PISA 2009 montrent que, dans la quasi-totalité des pays de l’OCDE, les élèves de 15 ans ayant suivi un enseignement préprimaire obtiennent de meilleurs résultats que les...

<UL> <LI>In most OECD countries, newly arrived 15-year-old immigrant students show poorer reading performance than immigrant students who arrived in their new country when they were younger than five. </LI> <LI>Students who emigrated from less-developed countries where the home language differs from their new...</li></li></ul>

<UL> <LI>The percentage of students who expect to complete university is highest in Korea (80%) and lowest in Latvia (25%).</LI> <LI>Many high-performing students do not expect to go to university, representing potentially lost talent to an economy and society while many low-performing students think they will...</li></li></ul>

<ul> <li> On average across OECD countries, students who are highly motivated to learn mathematics because they believe it will help them later on score better in mathematics – by the equivalent of half a year of schooling – than students who are not highly motivated. </li> <li>Students’ motivation to...</li></ul>

<ul> <li> How educational resources are allocated is just as important as the amount of resources available. </li> <li> High-performing countries and economies tend to allocate resources more equitably across socio-economically advantaged and disadvantaged schools. </li> <li> Among the countries with better-resourced...</li></ul>

<UL> <LI>Successful education systems are able to guarantee that all students succeed at high levels. </LI> <LI>Across OECD countries, around 60% of the overall, country-level variation in student performance can be traced to differences in how well students who attend the same school can be expected to perform....</li></li></ul>