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The foundations of formal learning are laid in primary and secondary school, but they can easily be undermined by social disadvantage and language barriers. OECD aims to help countries foster quality teaching in preschools and schools to ensure all students - regardless of circumstances - lay the grounds for a lifetime of learning. Find out more.

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educationtoday - OECD’s education lighthouse for the way out of the crisis

23-Jun-2009

This collaborative space offers you evidence and analysis on the impact of the crisis on education, concrete examples of how governments and institutions in different countries are coping,  information on high priority issues such as education budgets, stimulus packages, the effects of unemployment on motivation and learning attitudes, and much more. Register now and contribute to this information sharing platform with other members of the fast-growing OECD social network.

Launch of the OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS)

21-Jun-2009

Remarks by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General, delivered at the launch of the OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) in Mexico on 16 June 2009

Teacher effectiveness hampered by lack of incentives and bad behaviour in classrooms

16-Jun-2009

Three out of four teachers feel they lack incentives to improve the quality of their teaching, while bad behaviour by students in the classroom disrupts lessons in three schools out of five, according to a new OECD report “Creating effective teaching and learning environments”.

Equally prepared for life? How 15-year-old boys and girls perform in school

26-May-2009

This book aims to provide important insights for policy makers reponsible for endorsing gender equity by exploring the educational performance and attitudes of 15-year-old girls and boys in reading, mathematics, problems solving and science.

Top of the Class - High Performers in Science in PISA 2006

28-Apr-2009

This book analyses factors contributing to the successful performance of students in science by exploring how the academic achievement of students relates to the characteristics of individual students, schools and education systems.

Many teenagers in OECD countries lack environmental science grounding, study shows

31-Mar-2009

Teenagers in OECD countries are mostly well aware of environmental issues but often know little about their causes, raising questions about how well societies will be equipped to tackle such challenges in the future, according to a new OECD publication.

PISA Take the Test: Sample Questions from the OECD's PISA Assessments

07-Jan-2009

This book presents all the publicly available questions from the PISA surveys. Some of these questions were used in the PISA 2000, 2003 and 2006 surveys and others were used in developing and trying out the assessment.

PISA 2006 Technical Report

22-Jan-2009

This report describes the methodology underlying the PISA 2006 survey. It examines additional features related to the implementation of the project at a level of detail that allows researchers to understand and replicate its analyses.

OECD/PEB Follow-up to the Wenchuan Earthquake

21-Oct-2008

School buildings were the most heavily affected structure during the great Wenchuan earthquake, and student and teacher populations suffered heavy losses of life. In the wake of the earthquake, the OECD, and PEB in particular, offered to help China improve earthquake safety in schools.
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OECD Education Lighthouse

Register to join this collaborative space and help chart the way for the education sector to navigate through the current crisis and shape the post-crisis economy and society.

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Education Today: The OECD Perspective

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This book proposes a value-added model of measuring which provides a more fair, precise and quantitative tool for assessing students’ progress.

Measuring Improvements in Learning Outcomes: Best Practices to Assess the Value-Added of Schools

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Education at a Glance 2008: OECD Indicators

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Across OECD countries nearly one in three adults has only primary or lower secondary education.

No More Failures: Ten Steps to Equity in Education

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Find out how early childhood education and care (ECEC) policy has progressed in OECD countries.

Starting Strong II: Early Childhood Education and Care

What is the framework of the PISA 2006 survey for assessing students in maths, reading, scientific literacy and attitudes to science? Find out more.

Assessing Scientific, Reading and Mathematical Literacy: A Framework for PISA 2006