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Improving Learning Environments : School Discipline and Student Achievement in Comparative Perspective.

Improving Learning Environments provides the first systematic comparative cross-national study of school disciplinary climates. In this volume, leading international social science researchers explore nine national case studies to identify the institutional determinants of variation in school discip...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Arum, Richard
Autres auteurs: Velez, Melissa
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2012.
Collection:Studies in social inequality.
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Table des matières:
  • List of Contributors; Introduction: School Discipline, Student Achievement, and Social Inequality
  • Richard Arum, Karly Ford, and Melissa Velez; 1. Academic Performance and Expectations of Canadian Students
  • Robert Andersen and David Zarifa; 2. School Discipline in Chile
  • Florencia Torche and Alejandra Mizala; 3. School Discipline and Achievement in Israel
  • Yossi Shavit and Carmel Blank; 4. School Discipline, Performance, and the Presence of Immigrants in Italian Schools
  • Paolo Barbieri and Stefani Scherer.
  • 5. School Discipline and Academic Achievement in Japan
  • Hiroshi Ishida and Satoshi Miwa6. School Disciplinary Climate, Behavioral Problems, and Academic Achievement in the Netherlands
  • Herman G. van de Werfhorst, Machteld Bergstra, and René Veenstra; 7. School Discipline, Math and Science Achievement, and College Aspirations in Contemporary Russia
  • Theodore P. Gerber; 8. School Disciplinary Climate and Consequences for Student Achievement in South Korea
  • Hyunjoon Park; 9. Class and Racial Differences in U.S. School Disciplinary Environments
  • Richard Arum and Melissa Velez; Index.