Educational tracking is a very controversial issue in education. The tracking debate is about the virtues of uniformity and vertical differentiation in the curriculum and teaching. The pro- tracking group claims that curriculum and teaching better aimed at children's varied interest and skills...

This paper shows the effect of school staff autonomy on educational performance. The distinctive feature with existing literature is that we employ variation in autonomy within the same country and within the same school type to reduce the omitted variables problems. To fully capture the...

La publication tous les trois ans des enquêtes PISA1 offre un cadre d’analyse plus qu’intéressant en matière de politiques éducatives. Alors que les résultats de l’enquête PISA 2012 sont disponibles depuis décembre 2013, il convient de revenir sur les principaux enseignements que...

This paper shows the value of school autonomy for educational performance. To fully capture the informational advantage of local actors, we define school autonomy as the operational empowerment of the principals and teachers. The Flemish secondary school system in Belgium is analyzed as it is...