International large-scale assessments such as PISA are increasingly being used to
benchmark the academic performance of young people across the world. Yet many of the …

The Shanghai basic education system has garnered significant attention since its
extraordinary performance in the 2009 and 2012 Programme for International Student …

International research has consistently found that the socioeconomic segregation of schools
may worsen inequalities in schooling outcomes through the socioeconomic compositional …

Grouping similar students together within schools (streaming) or classrooms (tracking)
based on past literacy skills (reported by parents), family socioeconomic status (SES) or …

Over the last two decades, the Polish education system has been reformed several times,
with the comprehensive structural reform in 1999, curriculum and evaluation reform in 2007 …

The impact of the PISA study on Polish education policy has been significant, but probably
different from any other country. Poland has not experienced the so‐called 'PISA shock', but …

This chapter presents a history of the successes and challenges of education reforms in
Poland from 1999 to the present in the context of political and social changes. The goals of …

This country study on Hungary is a contribution to the “Future Challenges to Education in
Central-Eastern European Context” project of the Central European University–Democracy …

Several educational systems have introduced market-oriented reforms in the last two
decades. Recent research has suggested that these schemes may increase the …

This study compared the effects of being in different tracks during the first 3 years of
secondary education on student academic performance. A sample of a longitudinal cohort …