Sorting students on the basis of their academic performance into hierarchically ordered
curriculums (ie, between-school tracking) is common practice in various educational …

Students in some countries do far better on international achievement tests than students in
other countries. Is this all due to differences in what students bring with them to school …

This paper compares the educational attainment of second-generation immigrants with that
of children born to native parents in several OECD countries. We show that the average gap …

Die vorliegende Studie geht der Frage nach, ob Lehrererwartungen unabhängig von den
Kompetenzen der Schüler nach dem Geschlecht, nach der sozialen oder nach der …

Do increased instruction hours improve the performance of all students? Using PISA scores
of students in ninth grade, we analyse the effect of a German education reform that …

We document gaps in day care enrolment by family background in a country with a universal
day care system (Germany). Research demonstrates that children of parents with lower …

Background Social well-being arises from the fulfillment of the basic need for relatedness. In
school, it largely hinges on teacher-student relationships (TSR) and sense of school …

Even though social class is at least as predictive of educational achievement as ethnicity in
virtually all developed countries, experimental research on discrimination in education has …

A review of the literature shows that our knowledge concerning effects of chronic aircraft
noise exposure on children is still limited and does not allow well-founded predictions for …

Bias in track recommendations is an important mechanism, which causes education inequity
in a tracked educational system (streaming). If teacher biases in track recommendations …