<ul> <li> How educational resources are allocated is just as important as the amount of resources available. </li> <li> High-performing countries and economies tend to allocate resources more equitably across socio-economically advantaged and disadvantaged schools. </li> <li> Among the countries with better-resourced...</li></ul>

<UL> <LI>Successful education systems are able to guarantee that all students succeed at high levels. </LI> <LI>Across OECD countries, around 60% of the overall, country-level variation in student performance can be traced to differences in how well students who attend the same school can be expected to perform....</li></li></ul>

<UL> <LI>PISA results show that no country or economy has reached the goal of creating a completely equitable education system, but some are much closer than others.</LI> <LI>Some countries and economies have shown that improvements in equity can be achieved at the same time as improvements in overall...</li></li></ul>

<UL> <LI>Countries vary in the way they use marks, but they all tend to reward the mastery of skills and attitudes that promote learning. </LI> <LI>Teachers tend to give girls and socio-economically advantaged students better school marks, even if they don’t have better performance and attitudes than boys and...</li></li></ul>

<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>