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How Do Some Students Overcome Their Socio-Economic Background? PISA in Focus. No. 5
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OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2011
Are socio-economically disadvantaged students condemned to perpetuate an intergenerational cycle of poor academic achievement, poor job prospects and poverty? Not if they attend schools that provide them with more regular classes. Resilient students in the 2006 and 2009 PISA surveys displayed high levels of academic achievement despite the fact…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Economically Disadvantaged, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries