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Thieme, Claudio; Gimenez, Victor; Prior, Diego – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2012
The present study assesses the performance of 54 participating countries in PISA 2006. It employs efficiency indicators that relate result variables with resource variables used in the production of educational services. Desirable outputs of educational achievement and undesirable outputs of educational inequality are considered jointly as result…
Descriptors: Asians, Equal Education, Efficiency, Foreign Countries
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Jackson, Michelle; Jonsson, Jan O.; Rudolphi, Frida – Sociology of Education, 2012
The authors ask whether choice-driven education systems, with comprehensive schools and mass education at the secondary and tertiary level, represented in this article by England and Sweden, provide educational opportunities for ethnic minorities. In studying educational attainment, the authors make a theoretical distinction between mechanisms…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Opportunities, Disadvantaged, Minority Groups