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Quality Time for Students: Learning In and Out of School
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At a time when OECD and partner countries are trying to figure out how to reduce burgeoning debt and make the most of shrinking public budgets, spending on education... -
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Grade Expectations How Marks and Education Policies Shape Students' Ambitions
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While enrolment in tertiary education has increased dramatically over the past decades, many university-aged students do not enrol, nor do they expect to earn a... -
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Against the Odds Disadvantaged Students Who Succeed in School
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Many socio-economically disadvantaged students excel in PISA. Students who succeed at school despite a disadvantaged background -- resilient students -- are the focus... -
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Take the Test Sample Questions from OECD's PISA Assessments
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What does PISA actually assess? This book presents all the publicly available questions from the PISA surveys. Some of these questions were used in the PISA 2000,... -
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Foreign Affairs Manual (2 FAM) - 2 FAM 700 Ethics, section 710
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The Foreign Service Act of 1980 mandated a comprehensive revision to the operation of the Department of State and the personnel assigned to the US Foreign Service. As... -
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Digest of United States Practice in International Law 2010
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The 2010 Digest provides a historical record of developments that took place during calendar year 2010, illustrating how the United States put our strategic vision of... -
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PISA 2006 Science Competencies for Tomorrow's World: Volume 1: Analysis
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PISA 2006: Science Competencies for Tomorrow’s World presents the results from the most recent Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) survey, which... -
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PISA 2015 Assessment and Analytical Framework
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This publication presents the theory underlying the PISA 2015 assessment – the sixth since the programme’s inception. It includes frameworks for assessing the three... -
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Top of the Class High Performers in Science in PISA 2006
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The rapidly growing demand for highly skilled workers has led to a global competition for talent. While basic competencies are important for the absorption of new... -
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Where Immigrant Students Succeed A Comparative Review of Performance and Engagement in PISA 2003
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Drawing on data from the OECD’s Programme for International Students Assessment (PISA), this report examines the performance of students with immigrant backgrounds... -
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Lake Chad Basin: Ongoing Food Security and Displacement Crisis
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Boko Haram-related conflict continues to restrict humanitarian access in the Lake Chad Basin region, where an estimated 10.7 million people need assistance and 2.4... -
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PISA 2009 Results: What Makes a School Successful? Resources, Policies and Practices (Volume IV)
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This volume of PISA 2009 results examines how human, financial and material resources, and education policies and practices shape learning outcomes. Following an... -
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PISA 2015 Results (Volume I)
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PISA 2015 Results (Volume I): Excellence and Equity in Education, is one of five volumes that present the results of the PISA 2015 survey, the sixth round of the... -
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PISA 2009 Assessment Framework Key Competencies in Reading, Mathematics and Science
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This book presents the theory behind the development of the 2009 PISA survey. The re-worked and expanded framework for reading literacy includes not only the... -
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PISA 2015 Results (Volume V)
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PISA 2015 Results (Volume V): Collaborative Problem Solving, is one of five volumes that present the results of the PISA 2015 survey, the sixth round of the triennial... -
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Digest of United States Practice in International Law 2011
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This volume provides a historical record of developments occurring during calendar year 2011, when the State Department's Office of the Legal Adviser marked its 80th... -
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Equations and Inequalities Making Mathematics Accessible to All
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This report, based on results from PISA 2012, shows that one way forward is to ensure that all students spend more “engaged” time learning core mathematics concepts... -
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Digest of United States Practice in International Law 2008
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The Office of the Legal Adviser publishes the annual Digest of United States Practice in International Law to provide the public with a historical record of the views... -
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PISA 2012 Results: Students and Money (Volume VI) Financial Literacy Skills for the 21st Century
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This sixth volume of PISA 2012 results examines 15-year-old students’ performance in financial literacy in the 18 countries and economies that participated in this... -
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Digest of United States Practice in International Law 1991-1999
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The Office of the Legal Adviser publishes the annual Digest of United States Practice in International Law to provide the public with a historical record of the views...