This open-access book focuses on trends in educational inequality using twenty years of grade 8 student data collected from 13 education systems by the IEAs Tre

Contemporary public policy assumes that the achievement gap between black and white students could be closed if only schools would do a better job. According to

In many countries, concern about socio-economic inequalities in educational attainment has focused on inequalities in test scores and grades. The presumption ha

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

As the incomes of affluent and poor families have diverged over the past three decades, so too has the educational performance of their children. But how exactl