It is known that socialization plays a basic role in personal development, this being essential in childhood. Lack of communication skills and self-knowledge and cause difficulties in social integration of children of any age, so now is the growing emphasis in schools on activities aimed at...

The new university model leads against the right to education and teaching freedom. It is not a matter of theoretical working model, based upon technical argumentations, but an ideological model, leading for upper social classes' interests (great investors' ones). University business not being...

Academic freedom poses an important problem in the current higher education system, which has an European scope. As it has been granted as a fundamental human right in all countries belonging to the so-called "common area", academic freedom exercise opposes to specific features in the regulation...

The role of socio economic background in school attainment is a central issue. Most studies conclude that if socioeconomic background is still strongly associated with school attainment, this association has rather declined among cohorts, including for higher degrees. Opponents of the decline of...

While each tier of education has at various times been the concurrent (joint) responsibility of both Federal and state governments, the former has historically been much more involved at the post secondary level. The shares of Federal Government recurrent and capital expenditures by level of...

Ludger Wößmann legt in seinem auf die Bildung fokussierten Beitrag dar, dass gerade die Basiskompetenzen der Bildung, wie sie von internationalen Schülervergleichstests in Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften erhoben werden, als entscheidender Einflussfaktor auf das langfristige Wachstum von...

Aufgrund der schlechten Ergebnisse der deutschen Schüler bei den internationalen Vergleichsstudien ist eine breite Diskussion über das deutsche Bildungssystem entstanden, und erste Schulreformen wurden in die Wege geleitet. Prof. Dr. Johanna Wanka, Präsidentin der Kultusministerkonferenz,...