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World Class: What England Can Learn from Global Experience to Make Early Years Policy Work for Disadvantaged Children. A Fair Start?
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Elena Rosa Brown; Merrilyn Groom; Kankan Zhang; Sarah Angell – Sutton Trust, 2023
England's early education and childcare system is at a turning point. Both major political parties have shown a significant interest in the early years, with the government recently announcing an expansion of funded provision for some one- and two-year-olds in the 2023 Spring Budget. But what can be done to ensure any changes to England's early…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education
In Which Countries and Schools Do Disadvantaged Students Succeed? PISA in Focus. No. 80
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OECD Publishing, 2018
PISA 2015 data show that, on average across OECD countries, as many as three out of four students from the lowest quarter of socio-economic status reach, at best, only the baseline level of proficiency (Level 2) in reading, mathematics or science. While in Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong (China), Ireland, Japan, Korea, the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
Socially Disadvantaged Students in Socially Disadvantaged Schools: Double Jeopardy in Mathematics Achievement in the G8 Countries
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Dundas, Traci Lynne – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Using the G8 countries' (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, and the United States) samples from the 2003 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), this study aimed to explore the phenomenon of double jeopardy in mathematics achievement for socially disadvantaged students. Double jeopardy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disadvantaged Schools, Disadvantaged Youth, Mathematics Achievement