This paper explores the links between school, family and areabackground influences during adolescence and later adult … Survey ofYouth. For a sample of individuals aged 14 to 19 in 1979, estimates areproduced of the impact of family, school and …

quality. We suggest a method ofcalculating school quality (how effective a school is in helping its pupils to avoid …Tens of thousands of young people leave school with no or very few qualifications inEngland. This paper seeks to build … correlation with unobserved school and neighborhood quality, i.e. the role ofsorting into schools and neighborhoods of different …

involvement and the gender ofthe parent. Father interest in education has the strongest impact on earlierpoverty, especially at … age 11. Meanwhile, both father and mother interest inschool at age 16 have the largest direct impact on education. The … frequency ofoutings with mother at age 11 also has a larger direct impact on education thanoutings with father, however, neither …

Both the quantity and quality of education and training in Britain are being comparedunfavourably with arrangements in … presumption thatimprovements in the quality and quantity of education and training will not primarily befinanced by increased … schemes with the current government scheme for higher education, and alsoinvestigates the long-run yield of a graduate tax and …

incentives and rewardsto promote student learning. Higher standards canincrease the effectiveness of school-leaving policies … of students themselves. It follows thatan increase in schools’ expectations of students couldhave important effects on ….Instead of simply allowing students to drop out at agesixteen, schools might require an exit exam. In this way,a minimal level of …

sustaining social exclusion. Testscores at school are the most effective predictor of many adult outcomes.School attendance and … thatcombinations of social disadvantage powerfully affect school performancewith up to 75% of school variation in 16 year old … attainment at GCSEassociated with pupil intake factors. But school factors can raise attainmentby up to 14 GCSE points for …

compare patterns of segregation across nineethnic groups, and across Local Education Authorities in England. Looking atboth … across England. We findconsistently higher segregation for South Asian pupils than for Black pupils.For most ethnic groups … children are more segregated at school than in theirneighbourhood. We analyse the relative degree of segregation and show …