Assessing the quality of education and its relationships with the  inequality in European and other modern societies

Edited by J. Dronkers, to be published by Springer Press 2010

Last update September 22, 2009

1. The Gordian Knit between Quality and Inequality of Education. A Cross-National Attempt to Unravelling. Dronkers
2. Institutional arrangements and educational outcomes

- 2.1. The Influence of Educational Segregation on Educational Achievement, Robert.

- 2.2. Institutional tracking and achievement growth. Exploring difference-in-differences approach to PIRLS, TIMSS and PISA data Jakubowski

- 2.3. Educational expansion and social class returns to tertiary qualifications in post-communist countries. Bukodi

3. Migration and educational inequality.

- 3.1. Educational Gaps between Immigrant and Native Students in Europe: The Role of Grade Retention Park & Sandefur.

- 3.2. How Do School Regimes Tackle Ethnic Segregation? Some Insights Supported in PISA 2006. Alegre & Ferrer

- 3.3. The Educational Attainment of Second Generation Immigrants from different Countries of Origin in the EU member-states. Dronkers & Fleischmann

- 3.4. Talking the same language. How does education in the mother tongue affect the pupils’ scholastic achievement in the parallel school systems? Pasztor

4. Education in Europe & Asia: analogies and differences

- 4.1. Intergenerational transmission of income and education in France and Japan. Lefranc, Ojima & Yoshida.

- 4.2. Japanese and Korean High Schools and Students in Comparative Perspective. Park.

- 4.3. Family Background, School System and Academic Achievement in Germany and in Japan. Ojima & Below

5. Features of Educational Systems as Factors in the Creation of Unequal Educational Outcomes. Dronkers