Rich schools, poor schools. Hidden resource inequalities between primary schools

Are Catholic Primary Schools More Effective than Public Primary Schools?

This paper assesses the causal effects of Catholic primary schooling on student outcomes such as test scores, grade retention, and behavior. Catholic school students have substantially better average outcomes than do public school students throughout the primary years, but we present evidence that selection bias is entirely responsible for these advantages. Estimates based on several empirical ...

Valuing Primary Schools

Parents of young children are preoccupied with getting their children into good primary schools. If you have children who are approaching primary school age, then conversation inevitably comes round to this topic. Politicians and the media discuss the issue frequently. Government policy has, at least in principle, made parental preference the key factor in primary school admissions. In practice...

CONNECT ALL SECONDARY SCHOOLS AND PRIMARY SCHOOLS WITH ICTs

Programming in Slovak Primary Schools

In our paper, we want to present the conception of elementary programming in primary Informatics education in Slovakia and the process of its integration into ordinary classrooms. First, we will familiarize the reader with the tradition of so called ‘Informatics education’ in Slovakia and with the various stages of the process of its integration. We will formulate the learning objectives of the...

Individual Work in Primary Schools

Part II deals in some detail with practical methods of individualising the study of reading, poetry, composition, grammar, spelling, arithmetic, history and geography. The suggestions are not all of equal value. The methods suggested for individual work in reading are on the whole the most valuable, although there is perhaps a tendency to stress the testing, by means of written answers, of what...