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Pakistan's education system faces long-standing problems in access, quality, and equal opportunity at every level …: primary and secondary schools, higher education and vocational education. In spite of recent encouraging trends, such as the … rapid spread of private schooling and an expansion of higher education opportunities, systemic reform remains stubbornly …
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While leveraging parents has the potential to increase student performance, programs that do so are often costly to implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the gathering and provision of information to parents at...
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The study estimates the effect of school starting age on academic performance for Hungarian grade four students using the "Progress in International Reading Literacy Study" (PIRLS) and the "Trends in Mathematics and Science Study" (TIMMS). The study uses the control function approach, exploiting...
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, Mathematics and Science performance. -- Education ; student test scores ; enrolment age ; identification …
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. Educational outcomes could be improved through raising the attractiveness of the teacher profession, improving teacher education …
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key factor to economic, social and environmental progress, are a sufficient element to trigger a revolution in education … - the world education systems suffering from the process of McDonaldization which impedes them from evolving towards the XXI …
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while education can be an escalator out of social disadvantage — leading to better job prospects for youths facing greater … significant minority of students in several OECD countries do not even complete compulsory education; students' test scores in … lower secondary education are strongly shaped by family characteristics; and the expansion of university education has most …
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national education system. The 1955 reform broadened education coverage and promoted a homogenous national culture. The 1994 … intercultural education. The role of language in the three reforms underlines the fundamental questions of how educational provision … wide range of policies, and the successful implementation of bilingual and intercultural education as called for in the …
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