Comprehensive versus Selective Schooling in England in Wales: What Do We Know? [PDF]
British secondary schools moved from a system of extensive and early selection and tracking in secondary schools to one with comprehensive schools during the 1960s and 70s.
Alan Manning, Jörn-Steffen Pischke
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Learner-centered social support: enhancing online distance education for underserved rural high school students in the United States [PDF]
, 2008 Over the past decade, federal programs in the United States have largely addressed the well-documented problem of differences in basic access to technology between rural schools and their suburban and urban counterparts.
de la Varre, Claire +3 more
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Systemic dysregulation of apolipoproteins in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis serum
FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal disease that damages motor neurons. This study found that people with ALS show significant changes in blood fats and the proteins that carry them. Several apolipoproteins were higher, lipid balances were altered, and normal protein–lipid relationships were disrupted.
Finula I. Isik +6 more
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Working at a different level? Curriculum differentiation in Irish lower secondary education. ESRI WP568, July 2017 [PDF]
, 2017 Young people in Irish schools are required to choose whether to sit lower and upper secondary exam subjects at higher or ordinary level. This paper draws on a mixed methods longitudinal study of students in twelve case-study schools to trace the school ...
Smyth, Emer
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Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science, 2013 In 2012 and 2013, the authors of this paper worked on the Czech Science Foundation Project - Information Technology Competencies of Children and Their Development in Primary and Lower Secondary Schools.
RAMBOUSEK, Vladimír +2 more
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Some Findings on Informatics Education in Austrian Academic Secondary Schools
Informatics in Education, 2008 The educational system in Austria is very multifaceted, and academic secondary schools represent an important part in it. This type of schools, in German called ``Gymnasium'', covers the age-group from 10 to 18 years and provides pupils and students with
Peter MICHEUZ
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Student Achievement Conditioned Upon School Selection: Religious and Secular Secondary School Quality in Bangladesh [PDF]
In this paper we present new evidence on the impact of school characteristics on secondary student achievement using a rich data set from rural Bangladesh.
Mohammad Niaz Asadullah (Reading University), Nazmul Chaudhury (World Bank) and Amit Dar (World Bank)
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Psychological health and attitude toward Christianity: a study among pupils attending Catholic schools in the Netherlands [PDF]
, 2009 This study examines the wider relevance of recent research conducted in England, Northern Ireland and Hong Kong concerning the association between religion and psychological health among young people, by administering translations of the same measures to
Francis, Leslie J. +1 more
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When and why do initially high attaining poor children fall behind? [PDF]
, 2015 In this paper, we examine the trajectories of initially higher- and lower-achieving children from lower and higher socio-economic status families from primary school through to university in England for the first time. We also explore what explains these
Crawford, Claire +2 more
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THE FUTURE OF EVALUATION OF LOWER SECONDARY SCHOOLS’ MANAGEMENT
Business, Management and Education, 2015 Efficiency of educational institutions is a significant issue worldwide. However, there is no commonly accepted way to measure the quality of management of education services. Mainly because it too much depends on the national factors: political, economic or legal.
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