Pedagogical innovations have been diffusing unevenly through the Chinese education system as a result of the implementation of the New Curriculum Reforms. Drawing on large-scale linked teacher and principal survey data from the Gansu Survey of Children and Families, this article investigates the extent to which interlocking teacher networks, which…

In recent decades, a dramatic shift has occurred in higher education throughout much of the industrialized world. For the first time in history, women are completing more education than men. Through the 1970s, women lagged behind men in the number of tertiary degrees completed in most nations. Since the 1980s, women have begun to reach parity with…

In this article the results from six states in Australia involved in a cross-national analyses of an IEA Science Project are regarded as replications, on the basis of which general statements are made about learning conditions associated with the performance in science of Australian students. (Author/RK)

Compares the effectiveness of formal schooling with learning from experience and considers, as one of its objectives, the extent that worker productivity is related to different levels of schooling. (Author/RK)