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Direct linkFelix Bittmann – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
Do children with better reading competence read more, or do avid readers increase their reading competence? This highly relevant question has been discussed for many years, yet conclusive results are rare. Previous studies suffer from small sample sizes or omitted variable bias, rendering their findings questionable. We provide new insight using…
Descriptors: Reading, Opportunities, Reading Instruction, Gender Differences
von Below, Susanne; Powell, Justin J. W.; Roberts, Lance W. – Sociology of Education, 2013
Educational systems considerably influence educational opportunities and the resulting social inequalities. Contrasting institutional regulations of both structures and contents, the authors present a typology of educational system types in Germany to analyze their effects on social inequality in eastern Germany after unification. After 1990, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Sociology, Educational Opportunities, Social Justice
Peer reviewedSutherland, Margaret B. – Comparative Education, 1985
Interviews were conducted with 244 women teaching in universities in Finland, France, East Germany, West Germany, and Great Britain to discover causes for the minority position of women who teach in universities. Women's position appeared to depend not on characteristics of individual educational systems but on common factors--social attitudes,…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Employment Patterns, Employment Practices, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Peer reviewedNeuner, Gerhart – Zeitschrift fur Padagogik, 1997
Analyzes the application of the principle of unity in different historical phases of the East German educational system. Argues that East German successes in reducing the number of socially underprivileged were always accompanied by a sharpening of the trade-off between educational equality and excellence, for which no solution was found. (DSK)
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Educational History, Educational Opportunities, Educational Policy
Fulton, Oliver; And Others – Education Policy Bulletin, 1980
Evidence from four Eastern and three Western European countries suggests that there has been some convergence in the application of manpower and social demand criteria to higher education planning. The theoretical case for and against manpower planning is discussed, and the approaches of specific countries are described. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: College Graduates, Curriculum, Economic Factors, Educational Planning
Lingens, Hans G. – 1998
This book outlines some of the current problems faced by higher education in Germany. The first chapter describes the development of higher education and the changes in this system over time, with an emphasis on the development of higher education in the two Germanys before reunification and some comments on developments since reunification.…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, College Students, Colleges, Demography
Download full textJanes, Jackson – 1987
A study commissioned by the German Marshall Fund of the United States examined the status of area studies on contemporary Germany in American postsecondary education. It surveyed 50 institutions concerning the status of teaching and research on contemporary Germany in selected fields of the humanities, social sciences, and professional education.…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Business Administration Education, Careers, College Curriculum
