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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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The total return to higher education is the rate of return based on earnings plus non-monetary private and social … benefits beyond earnings that captures higher education's contribution to development.A theory of endogenous development offers … a new scholarly contribution where firm and household production with education externalities and the endogeneity of new …
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Norway’s success in maintaining high living standards, low inequality and good progress in gender balance owes much to … older cohorts. Education policy’s role in providing skills conducive to good lifetime earnings is also discussed. …
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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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Der Bildungsföderalismus gerät immer wieder in die Kritik. Er bringe im internationalen Vergleich schlechte Schülerleistungen hervor. Die Schulabschlüsse in den einzelnen Bundesländern seien nicht vergleichbar, was die Mobilität von Familien mit schulpflichtigen Kindern erschwere....
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Andreas Schleicher und Ludger Schuknecht, OECD, Paris, zeigen in ihrer Analyse zwei internationale Trends auf, die für die Bildungspolitik in Deutschland und Europa von besonderer Relevanz sind. Erstens, ein hohes Bildungsniveau bleibt der Garant für Wohlstand und Wachstum. Aber im...
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