How do schools compensate for socio-economic disadvantage?

As educators know well, there are many barriers to learning that originate outside of school, such as those that arise from socio-economic disadvantage. In many education systems, the concentration of disadvantaged students in certain schools poses an additional challenge. Yet it is also true that s...

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Main Author: Salinas, Daniel
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Paris OECD Publishing 2017
Series:PISA in Focus
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