Most students think that what they learned in school is useful for them or their future. Students’ attitudes towards … school are associated with their reading skills. Students who report that the climate at their school is conducive to … learning tend to have more positive attitudes towards school. …

Immigrant students often have to overcome multiple barriers at once in order to succeed at school. Across most OECD … school, as reflected in the proportion of students whose mothers have low levels of education. The concentration, in a school …

who attend the same school can be expected to perform. About 40% of the variation in student performance in OECD countries …

Children spend about a third of their waking hours in school during most weeks in the year. Thus, schools have a …

International Survey (TALIS) of teachers of 15-year-old students with school-level data from the Programme for International Student … combined TALIS-PISA data by examining the relationship of school-level student measures to teacher outcomes. In other words …, this paper examines how student factors in a school may influence teachers’ work, their attitudes, and their perceived …

, even when switching is required because students reach the top grade offered at their school. Other researchers find that … from outside the New York City school district, across schools, across years for students staying in the district, and some …) elementary and middle school (hereafter primary schools) students and the last section concludes …

This paper provides evidence of the effect of age at school entry on college admission. We do so by exploiting a number … different ages at school entry depending on whether they are born on December 31st or on January 1st, our estimates show that … further suggest that the difference in the likelihood of admission is driven by candidates’ learning ability at primary school …