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Hilde Sofie Fjeld; Kari Spernes – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2024
The purpose of this paper is to examine and discuss bilingual teachers' professional capita professionalism in relation to 'travelling teachers', who only have a few brief weekly encounters with students and colleagues. By applying a triangulation design, bilingual teachers were given a voice through personal interviews, which were combined with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Bilingual Teachers, Human Capital
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Baird, Katherine – Education Economics, 2012
This paper investigates achievement gaps between low and high socioeconomic students in 19 high-income countries. On average, math scores of students with indicators of high socioeconomic status (SES) are over one standard deviation above those with low SES indicators. The paper estimates the extent to which these achievement gaps can be…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Achievement Gap, Socioeconomic Status, Educational Resources
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Brekke, Idunn – Journal of Education and Work, 2007
This article focuses on the impact of ethnic background on employment and earnings among people with a vocational education in Norway. I differentiate between three different groups: majority, first-generation non-Westerners and second-generation non-Westerners. Panel data from several public register databases of the entire population of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Schools, Probability, Graduates