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After PISA--Real Approaches to Science in Wales
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Jones, Verity – Primary Science, 2017
As a teacher, author Verity Jones found for many years that the science knowledge and understanding of the children she taught in year 6 (age 10-11) was being compromised by the pressures of a government focus on maths and literacy and a short-sighted approach to how to teach those subjects in a cross-curricular way. As the science coordinator for…
Descriptors: Science Education, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Teaching Assistants
Toward One of the Leading Education-Based Economies? Investigating Aims, Strategies, and Practices of Finland's Education Export Landscape
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Schatz, Monika – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2015
Since the first publication of the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) results in 2000, the Finnish education system has received much praise both in Finland and abroad. In recent years, Finland started to build up its own education export sector with the aim of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Education, Case Studies, Commercialization
A Study of Equity in Mathematics Education: Lessons from Japan for U.S. Teacher Preparation
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Furuto, Linda H. L. – International Journal for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, 2015
This study comes at an opportune moment for Japanese and U.S. educators, policymakers, and researchers given the trends of global policy and equity-based reform. Discussions of academic achievement in both societies allow us to examine accessibility in mathematics education in order to best prepare teachers to serve the needs of students.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Education, Equal Education, Educational Change
A Cross-National Analysis of the Relations of School Choice and Effectiveness Differences between Private-Dependent and Public Schools
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Dronkers, Jaap; Avram, Silvia – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2010
We apply propensity score matching to the estimation of differential school effectiveness between the publicly funded private sector and the public sector in a sample of 26 countries. This technique allows us to distinguish between school choice and school effectiveness processes and thus to account for selectivity issues involved in the…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Private Sector, School Choice, Reading Achievement
Integrating Immigrant Children into Schools in Europe: Measures to Foster Communication with Immigrant Families and Heritage Language Teaching for Immigrant Children
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De Coster, Isabelle – Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, European Commission, 2009
This document talks about immigrant children, who are defined here as either children born in another country (within or outside Europe) or children whose parents or grandparents were born in another country. So the term "immigrant children" used here covers various situations, which can be referred to in other contexts as…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Refugees, Minority Groups, Foreign Countries
Improving Education Achievement and Attainment in Luxembourg. OECD Economics Department Working Papers, No. 508
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Carey, David; Ernst, Ekkehard – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2006
Improving education achievement in Luxembourg is a priority for strengthening productivity growth and enhancing residents' employment prospects in the private sector, where employers mainly hire cross-border workers. Student achievement in Luxembourg is below the OECD average according to the 2003 OECD PISA study, with the performance gap between…
Descriptors: Productivity, Private Sector, Grade Repetition, Academic Achievement