towards learning and life more generally. Longitudinal studies suggest that students’ results on the PISA test are correlated …Children spend about a third of their waking hours in school during most weeks in the year. Thus, schools have a … with how well students will do later on in life; but strong performance in standardised assessments like PISA explains only …

highly motivated. Students’ motivation to learn mathematics is lower in education systems that sort and group students into …On average across OECD countries, students who are highly motivated to learn mathematics because they believe it will … help them later on score better in mathematics – by the equivalent of half a year of schooling – than students who are not …

students are less likely to enjoy orderly classrooms than advantaged students. Orderly classrooms – regardless of the school …Most students enjoy orderly classrooms for their language-of-instruction lessons. Socio-economically disadvantaged …

friends and caring adults among members of the school community. As students go through a decisive period of their lives … did students’ feelings of belonging at school change over a period in which online friendships and social networks were …, discovering and redefining their identity, a strong sense of belonging at school can help them feel secure, and can support their …

This paper provides the first causal evidence about how elected local school boards affect student segregation across … schools. The key identification challenge is that the composition of a school board is potentially correlated with unobserved … determinants of school segregation, such as the pattern of household sorting and the degree to which boards are geographically …

The rights of students with disabilities to be educated in their local mainstream school is becoming more and more … segregate disabled students in public education systems; instead, education systems need to be reconsidered to meet the needs of … all students. Based on in-depth analysis of inclusive practice in eight countries, this book addresses the issues that …

Many socio-economically disadvantaged students excel in PISA. Students who succeed at school despite a disadvantaged … is possible, and provides students, parents, policy makers and other education stakeholders insights into what enables … that positive approaches to learning tend to boost the performance of advantaged students more than that of disadvantaged …

and their families well into their adopted countries; and education can be a powerful lever to achieve this. …

students, parents and the public at large for their outcomes. PISA results suggest that, when autonomy and accountability are …