particular, German policy makers, pedagogues, parents, and teachers have since long discussed whether the traditional … consideration of a particular child's competency for school (Schulfähigkeit) have been suggested. Using a dataset capturing children …

participation in societal life resemble more those of native Germans than those of their parents' generation …

The German practice of compelling weak students to repeat a class has come under heavy criticism recently. Many …

students participating in this standardized test performed considerably below the OECD average and substantially worse than … comprehensive econometric analysis of the association of the individual-level reading test scores of German students with individual … too much regulation of schools or the substantial share of non-citizens among the participating students, are by no means …

other school quality measures on students' outcomes. This paper analyses the effect of achievement heterogeneity and …