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Direct linkOECD Publishing (NJ1), 2012
Countless policy makers and researchers have flocked to observe the education systems of Hong Kong, Shanghai and Singapore, which are among the top five performers in the PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) 2009 reading assessment. Many visitors have been particularly impressed by the fact that these education systems succeed in…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Urban Education, Academic Achievement, Socioeconomic Status
Menahem, Gila – Urban Education, 2011
The study examines two issues of the relationship between social capital and educational performance: the different effects of bridging and bonding social capital on urban educational performance and the contextual effects of social capital. The main argument states that bonding and bridging social capital are differently related to educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Capital, Academic Achievement, Context Effect
Peer reviewedAvi-Itzhak, Tamara E. – Urban Education, 1987
Among Arab students in Israel, alienation is more closely related to their perceptions than to objective measures. Arab students, teachers, and principals from 36 schools were interviewed. The following four factors were used to measure alienation: (1) powerlessness, (2) meaninglessness, (3) misfeasance, and (4) self-estrangement. (LHW)
Descriptors: Alienation, Arabs, Cultural Isolation, Ethnicity
Peer reviewedSchmida, Mirjam; And Others – Urban Education, 1987
In Israel, there are statistical relationships between students' social orientations and the ability group to which they are assigned. However, the direction of effect between the two variables is as yet undetermined. (LHW)
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Social Development
Download full textSpolsky, Bernard – 1985
The 75th anniversary of a city honored among other things for its role in the revival of the Hebrew language is an appropriate occasion to remind ourselves of the complex effects of language policy on education. In choosing to establish Hebrew as its standard language, Israel was working to proclaim both present and historical unity. The rapidity…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Dialects, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
