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July 09, 2015
The PISA is a standardized test administered to 15-year-olds in dozens of countries every three years, most recently in 2012. Rich kids do better on PISA, so much so that rich kids in poorer countries score just as well their counterparts in rich countries. The strength of that relationship between ...
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July 09, 2015
Countries with high inequality have very big gaps in test scores between rich and poor kids. The correlation between the Gini coefficient of income inequality (on the horizontal axis) and the measure of intergenerational immobility (i.e., how well parental wealth predicts test scores, on the vertica...
Multimedia
July 09, 2015
Countries with high inequality have very big gaps in test scores between rich and poor kids. The correlation between the Gini coefficient of income inequality (on the horizontal axis) and the measure of intergenerational immobility (i.e., how well parental wealth predicts test scores, on the vertica...
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2015
8:30—4:30 PM
June 03, 2015
This two-day conference, organized in partnership with RISE–Research on Improving Systems of Education– provided an opportunity to explore and exchange ideas related to education systems research. RISE is an exciting new multi-country program that aims to build understanding of education systems and...
Blog Post
April 10, 2015
Did we reach the 2015 global education goals? The UNESCO Education for All Global Monitoring Report just launched their final 2015 report (complete with slick data viz and video). There was acceleration in progress after 2000, but still some countries have a way to go, and we sti...