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PISA 2018 Additional Analyses: What Differentiates Disadvantaged Pupils Who Do Well in PISA from Those Who Do Not? Research Brief
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Classick, Rachel; Gambhir, Geeta; Liht, Jose; Sharp, Caroline; Wheater, Rebecca – UK Department for Education, 2021
Social mobility and improving the performance of disadvantaged pupils is a focus for policy in England, Northern Ireland and Wales. The findings from PISA 2018 provide a unique opportunity to explore the impact of disadvantage on pupils aged 15, to contextualise achievement outcomes with information about home-life and school, as well as providing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economically Disadvantaged, Academic Achievement, Secondary School Students
America's Promise and Argentina's Unrestricted Access: A Comparative Analysis of Equity Implications of Tuition-Free and Open-Access Models in Higher Education
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Ballerini, Victoria – ProQuest LLC, 2018
It is argued that free-tuition higher education increases opportunity for underrepresented students with positive equity implications. Moreover, access to higher education for free expands existing visions of equal opportunity, as it changes aspirations and behavior. In 2015, Tennessee became the first state in the nation to implement a universal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Tuition, Educational Opportunities
Toward an Educated Elite: the Soviet Universities
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Jacoby, Susan – Change, 1971
Rigid college entrance requirements screen out the majority of Soviet youths. (Editor)
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Comparative Education, Educational Opportunities, Enrollment Influences