Determining the optimal age at which a child should enter school is a controversial topic in education policy. In …, established age of school entry at 6 years remains appropriate. Policies of encouraging early school entry or increased … consideration of a particular child's competency for school (Schulfähigkeit) have been suggested. Using a dataset capturing children …

learning since instruction is more effective when students are more homogeneous, while opponents argue it exacerbates initial …Schools often track students to classes based on ability. Proponents of tracking argue it is a low-cost tool to improve … student ability, and schools operationalize tracking through the classification of students into categories such as gifted and …

learning since instruction is more effective when students are more homogeneous, while opponents argue it exacerbates initial …Schools often track students to classes based on ability. Proponents of tracking argue it is a low-cost tool to improve … student ability, and schools operationalize tracking through the classification of students into categories such as gifted and …

Governments around the world have introduced a variety of programs aimed at facilitating distance learning in the home … setting during school closures due to COVID-19. However, given the cross-country variations in state capacity, these programs … social media survey on secondary school children conducted during January 2021. Under the PdPR scheme, the government created …

action policy can alter students’ high school applications and thus their assignments, contributing to desegregating high …This paper explores the dynamic relationship between school choices made at different educational stages and how it … affects racial segregation across schools. We use New York City public school choice data to ask: "How does the middle school …

This article provides an overview of the extent of school closures and the use of distance learning in the Nordic … indicates that the Nordic education systems were relatively well-prepared for a transition to distance learning in terms of … students are when exposed to remote instruction. Given the extent of school closures, students in compulsory schooling in …

students in Poland is estimated. The COVID-19-induced school closures lasted 26 weeks in Poland, one of Europe's longest …The effect of school closures in the spring of 2020 on the math, science, and reading skills of secondary school … periods of shutdown. Comparison of the learning outcomes with pre- and post-COVID-19 samples shows that the learning loss was …

preceding GCSE exams. Students score higher in math when their teacher devotes more class time to individual practice and … assessment. In contrast, students score higher in English if there is more discussion and work with classmates. Class time …

learning, we document stark changes in the prevalence of (cyber)bullying in Germany: Our results indicate that during school …, or in our context: school bullying) and via social media and electronic communication tools (cyberbullying). Using Google … years affected by COVID-19, online searches for school bullying decreased by about 25 percent, while online searches for …

-run schools, affect student achievement and school segregation across 15 countries over 16 years. Our triple …-differences regressions exploit between-grade variation in the share of students attending autonomous schools within a given country and year …. While autonomous schools do not affect overall achievement, effects are positive for high-socioeconomic status students and …