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John Jerrim; Claudia Prieto-Latorre; Luis Alejandro Lopez-Agudo; Oscar David Marcenaro-Gutierrez – Oxford Review of Education, 2024
A sizeable literature -- spanning education, sociology and economics -- has investigated the issue of parental school preferences and school choice. A notable gap in the existing evidence base is an exploration of how such preferences differ between mothers and fathers. We present new cross-national findings on this matter, drawing on survey data…
Descriptors: Father Attitudes, Mother Attitudes, Cross Cultural Studies, Preferences
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Beese, Jane; Liang, Xin – Improving Schools, 2010
The "PISA 2006 Science Literacy Assessment" results report Finland as the first ranked country out of the 30 developed nations that participated in the testing (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 2007). The United States was ranked 21st. Closer examination of school and student variables may help explain these…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Socioeconomic Status, Science Achievement, Teacher Qualifications