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    Equity and Quality in Education - Supporting Disadvantaged Students and Schools

    Reducing school failure pays off for both society and individuals. The highest performing education systems across OECD countries combine quality with equity. This report presents policy recommendations for education systems to help all children succeed in their schooling.

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    Strong Performers and Successful Reformers in Education

    This series of videos, produced jointly by the OECD and the Pearson Foundation, highlights initiatives being taken by education authorities around the world to help school students do better.

    OECD educationtoday - Global perspectives on education

    An insider look at new findings in international student performance, skills, early childhood education, education innovation and more.

    PISA - Measuring student success around the world

    If you’re not quite sure what PISA is or does, this video will help you to understand why the OECD’s number-crunchers trigger such intense debate about the state of education around the world every time they release the results of the latest PISA survey.

    OECD Skills Strategy

    One lesson from the economic crisis has been the importance of skills in today’s workplace: job losses among skilled workers were much lower than among the unskilled.

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    Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)

    PISA 2009 Results presents the findings from the most recent PISA survey, which focused on reading and also assessed mathematics and science performance.

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