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    • When is competition between schools beneficial? 

      OECD. Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD, 2014-08)
      In most school systems, over 50% of 15-year-olds students attend schools that compete with another school to attract students from the same residential area. Across countries and economies, performance is unrelated to ...

    • Where did equity in education improve over the past decade? 

      OECD. Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD, 2017-01)
      The persistence of social inequities in education – the fact that children of wealthy and highly educated parents tend to do better in school than children from less privileged families – is often seen as a difficult-to-reverse ...

    • Who are the academic all-rounders? 

      OECD. Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD, 2013-08)
      On average across OECD countries, around 4% of students are top performers in reading, mathematics and science (all-rounders). Australia, Finland, Hong Kong-China, Japan, New Zealand, Shanghai-China and Singapore have ...

    • Who are the best online readers? 

      OECD. Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD, 2015-09)
      The top-performing country in the PISA assessment of digital reading was Singapore, followed by Korea, Hong Kong-China, Japan, Canada and Shanghai-China. Students in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Korea, Singapore and the ...

    • Who are the low-performing students? 

      OECD. Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD, 2016-02)
      No country or economy participating in PISA 2012 can claim that all of its 15-year-old students have achieved basic proficiency skills in mathematics, reading and science. Some 28% of students score below the baseline level ...

    • Who are the school truants? 

      OECD. Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD, 2014-01)
      Across OECD countries, 18% of students skipped classes at least once in the two weeks prior to the PISA test, and 15% of students skipped a day of school or more over the same period. Few students in high-performing school ...

    • Who are the strong performers and successful reformers in education? 

      OECD. Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD, 2013-11)
      Strong performers and successful reformers in education share some key characteristics: a belief in the potential of all their students, strong political will, and the capacity of all stakeholders to make sustained and ...

    • Who wants to become a teacher? 

      OECD. Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD, 2015-12)
      Across OECD countries, 5% of students expect to work as teachers: 3% of boys and 6% of girls. The academic profile of students who expect to work as teachers varies, but in many OECD countries, students who expect to work ...