Social Exclusion and Children - Creating Identity Capital:Some Conceptual Issues and Practical Solutions

This paper will provide an overview of the work being carried out at Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (OECD/CERI) in the field of social exclusion as it applies to children. In particular it will focus on disabled and disadvantaged children and young people since these are the ones who are most likely to be at risk of exclusion and are areas in which the OECD has

Integrating Handicapped Students in Secondary Education

It has almost become a truism that including students with disabilities in mainstream schools is the preferred form of provision. Most countries in Europe have this as their goal and it has been the policy of the European Union for some years. But what is the current situation in relation to this goal for secondary education? This paper will use data gathered by OECD to throw light on this question. The data come from two sources.

Attracting, Developing and Retaining Effective Teachers - Home Page

The overall purpose of the Activity is to provide policy makers with information and analysis to assist them in formulating and implementing teacher policies leading to quality teaching and learning at the school level.

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Teacher Education and the Teaching Career in an Era of Lifelong Learning (Education Working Paper No. 2)

This paper attempts to position the teaching career within the context of the changing policy paradigm of lifelong learning.

Teacher Demand and Supply: Improving Teaching Quality and Addressing Teacher Shortages - A Literature Review and a Conceptual Framework for Future Work (Education Working Paper No. 1)

This paper provides an extensive review of the most relevant issues involved in the management of teacher demand and supply at the pre-tertiary level.

Schooling for Tomorrow: The Schooling for Tomorrow Operational Toolbox for Innovation, Forward-thinking and School System Change

All OECD countries now face a demanding new situation for schools. They are seeking to raise standards for all students, quantitatively and qualitatively. The broad aim of "lifelong learning for all" has moved from rhetoric to necessity, implying major shifts of thinking and practice for schools

Schooling for Tomorrow: Innovation, networks, and implications for governance

It is now widely agreed that learning is pivotal in the "knowledge societies" of today and, still more, of tomorrow. It is also widely agreed that schools have a key role to play in laying the foundations for lifelong learning for all of us.

Schooling for Tomorrow: Building and Completing the Toolbox

Schooling for Tomorrow: Scenario Indicators and Analysis

Having developed the Schooling for Tomorrow scenarios in the previous phase, the analytical task is now to operationalise and measure them. This will allow the assessment of where each "system" stands on a cluster of measures that relate to each of the six scenarios.

Schooling for Tomorrow: New Operational Tools

The outcomes of this activity will be a new set of operational "tools". These will be of value for both for the volunteer "inner core" countries explicitly injecting forward-thinking into their school reforms through this project, and for the international community in