Quality and Inequality of Education Cross-National Perspectives

This cogent analysis of data on education and society from a variety of sources sets out to provide answers to scientific and policy questions on the quality of education and the way it relates to various forms of inequality in modern societies, particula

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Quality and Inequality of Education Cross-National Perspectives

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Editor Prof. Jaap Dronkers Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market/ROA Maastricht University Tongersestraat 53 6211 LM Maastricht The Netherlands [email protected]

ISBN 978-90-481-3992-7 e-ISBN 978-90-481-3993-4 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-3993-4 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2010921983 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Contents

The Gordian Knit Between Quality and Inequality of Education: A Cross-National Attempt to Unraveling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jaap Dronkers Part I

Institutional Arrangements and Educational Outcomes

The Influence of Educational Segregation on Educational Achievement Peter Robert Institutional Tracking and Achievement Growth: Exploring Difference-in-Differences Approach to PIRLS, TIMSS, and PISA Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maciej Jakubowski Educational Expansion and Social Class Returns to Tertiary Qualifications in Post-communist Countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Erzsébet Bukodi Part II

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Migration and Educational Inequality

Educational Gaps Between Immigrant and Native Students in Europe: The Role of Grade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hyunjoon Park and Gary Sandefur

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How Do School Regimes Tackle Ethnic Segregation: Some Insights Supported in PISA 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Miquel Àngel Alegre and Gerard Ferrer–Esteban

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The Educational Attainment of Second Generation Immigrants from Different Countries of Origin in the EU Member-States . . . . . . Jaap Dronkers and Fenella Fleischmann

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Talking the Same Language: How Does Education in the Mother Tongue Affect the Pupils’ Scholastic Achievement in the Parallel School Systems? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adél Pásztor

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Part III Education in Europe and Asia: Analogies and Differences The Intergenerational Transmission of Income and Education: A Comparison of Japan and France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Arnaud Lefranc, Fumiaki Ojima, and Takashi Yoshida

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Japanese and Korean High Schools and Students in Comparative Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hyunjoon Park

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Family Background, School System and Academic Achievement in Germany and in Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fumiaki Ojima and Susanne von Below

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