<UL> <LI>Immigrant students often have to overcome multiple barriers at once in order to succeed at school. </LI> <LI>Across most OECD countries, poor performance among immigrant students relative to other students is strongly related to social disadvantage at school, as reflected in the proportion of students...</li></li></ul>

<UL> <LI>Most students think that what they learned in school is useful for them or their future. </LI> <LI>Students’ attitudes towards school are associated with their reading skills. </LI> <LI>Students who report that the climate at their school is conducive to learning tend to have more positive attitudes towards...</li></li></li></ul>

<UL> <LI>While the reading proficiency of Canadian 15-year-olds closely predicts reading proficiency at age 24, young adults can shape their reading skills after the end of compulsory schooling.</LI> <LI>In the transition to young adulthood, reading skills generally improve – but more for some groups than for...</li></li></ul>

Today's students are growing up in a precarious natural environment. Climate change and the loss of biodiversity threaten the ecosystems that support life; a lack of clean water and sanitation imperils the health of hundreds of millions of people every day. While trained geoscientists, biologists...

<ul> <li>Students whose parents work in professional occupations generally outperform other students in mathematics, while students whose parents work in elementary occupations tend to underachieve compared to their peers. </li> <li>The strength of the relationship between parents’ occupations and student...</li></ul>

<ul> <li>When students believe that investing effort in learning will make a difference, they score significantly higher in mathematics. </li> <li>The fact that large proportions of students in most countries consistently believe that student achievement is mainly a product of hard work, rather than inherited...</li></ul>

<ul> <li>Students who know how to summarise information tend to perform better in reading. </li> <li>If disadvantaged students used effective learning strategies to the same extent as students from more advantaged backgrounds do, the performance gap between the two groups would be almost 20% narrower. </li></ul>

<UL> <LI>Privately managed schools tend to attract more advantaged student populations; but the difference between the socio-economic profiles of public and private schools is narrowed when privately managed schools receive higher levels of public funding.</LI> <LI>The difference between the socio-economic...</li></li></ul>

Are socio-economically disadvantaged students condemned to perpetuate an intergenerational cycle of poor academic achievement, poor job prospects and poverty? Not if they attend schools that provide them with more regular classes.<P> Resilient students in the 2006 and 2009 PISA surveys displayed...</p>

<ul> <li> One in eight students across OECD countries has repeated a grade at least once before the age of 15. </li> <li> Many countries reduced the rate of grade repetition between 2003 and 2012. </li> <li> One in five disadvantaged 15-year-olds has repeated a grade. Even among students with similar academic...</li></ul>