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OECD: Education at a Glance 2012: OECD Indicators
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U.S. High School Graduation Rates: Patterns and Explanations
TL;DR: The authors survey the evidence on patterns in U.S. high school graduation rates over the period 1970-2010 and report the results of new research conducted to fill in holes in the evidence.
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"Not Designed for Us": How Science Museums and Science Centers Socially Exclude Low-income, Minority Ethnic Groups.
TL;DR: An analysis of exclusion fromscience learning opportunities during visits alongside participants’ attitudes, expectations, and conclusions about participation in ISE suggests ISE practices were grounded in expectations about visitors’ scientific knowledge, language skills, and finances in ways that were problematic for participants and excluded them from science learning opportunities.
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First-generation students: what we ask, what we know and what it means: an international review of the state of research
Thomas Spiegler,Antje Bednarek +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an international literature review on the topic of first-generation students (FGS), i.e. students whose parents have not obtained a higher education qualification.
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Relating school leadership to perceived professional learning community characteristics: a multilevel analysis
Bénédicte Vanblaere,Geert Devos +1 more
TL;DR: This article examined the role of transformational and instructional school leadership in facilitating interpersonal professional learning community (PLC) characteristics (collective responsibility, deprivatized practice, and reflective dialogue).
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Course of mental symptoms in patients with stress-related exhaustion: does sex or age make a difference?
TL;DR: The duration of symptoms before seeking health care, but not the level of education or co-morbid depression, was a predictor of recovery from symptoms of burnout after 18 months, which underlines the importance of early detection of stress-related symptoms.
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