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European Training Path for 21st Century School Leaders
Franzoni, Simona - 2015
This article investigates the competences of school leaders needed to develop learning communities (LCs) in the context … of European school governance systems. It shows the output of a two-years project “School Governance to build a Learning … empirical research, we designed an “European Training Path” for school leaders who want to build LCs. The training path is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013026268
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Do more educated leaders raise citizens' education?
Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Pérez-Reynosa, Jessica H. - 2013
This paper looks at the contribution of political leaders to enhance citizens' education and investigate how the educational attainment of the population is affected while a leader with higher education remains in office. For this purpose, we consider educational transitions of political leaders...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010196470
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Do More Educated Leaders Raise Citizens' Education?
Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2013
This paper looks at the contribution of political leaders to enhance citizens' education and investigate how the educational attainment of the population is affected while a leader with higher education remains in office. For this purpose, we consider educational transitions of political leaders...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074157
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Does school autonomy make sense everywhere? : panel estimates from PISA
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Link, Susanne; Woessmann, Ludger - 2011
Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went … countries. Relying on panel estimation with country fixed effects, we identify the effect of school autonomy from within …-country changes in the average share of schools with autonomy over key elements of school operations. Our results show that autonomy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009378381
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Does school autonomy make sense everywhere? : panel estimates from PISA
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Link, Susanne; Woessmann, Ludger - 2011
Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went … countries. Relying on panel estimation with country fixed effects, we identify the effect of school autonomy from within …-country changes in the average share of schools with autonomy over key elements of school operations. Our results show that autonomy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522998
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Migrants and educational achievement gaps : avoiding segregation and compensating for parental disadvantage can reduce migrants' educational achievement gabs
Entorf, Horst - 2015
As global migration flows increase, so do the number of migrant students in host country schools. Yet migrants' achievement scores lag well behind those of their nativeborn schoolmates. Performance gaps are explained largely by differences in migrant parents' socio-economic background, cultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430761
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Impact of duration of primary education on school outcomes : a cross-country analysis
Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Pérez-Reynosa, Jessica H. - 2013
of primary education on school enrollment, drop-outs and completion rates. The empirical results show that for children … in elementary school one additional grade of primary education has a negative impact on enrollment rate, while the effect … underdeveloped countries parents do not have incentive to send children to school given the high perceived present economic value of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010224585
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Decomposition of differences in PISA results in middle income countries
Nieto, Sandra; Ramos, Raúl - 2014
Our objective is to analyse the role of teacher and school quality to explain differences in students' educational … methods in order to identify the role of these factors for different groups of students. Our results show that school and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010257594
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The gender gap in mathematics : evidence from a middle-income country
Bharadwaj, Prashant; De Giorgi, Giacomo; Hansen, David; … - 2015
Using a large administrative data set from Chile, we find that, on average, boys perform better than girls in mathematics. In this paper, we document several features of their relative performance. First, we note that the gender gap appears to increase with age (it doubles between fourth grade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500668
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Teacher pay and student performance : evidence from the Gambian hardship allowance
Pugatch, Todd; Schroeder, Elizabeth - 2014
We evaluate the impact of the Gambian hardship allowance, which provides a salary premium of 30-40% to primary school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434576