Guest attendance data from 34 Swedish pre-schools and 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 ...

Swedish Folk High Schools and Inclusive Education

87 Forum DOI: 10.18261/issn.1891-5949-2017-02-03

CONNECT ALL SECONDARY SCHOOLS AND PRIMARY SCHOOLS WITH ICTs

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...

Are boys discriminated in Swedish high schools?

Girls typically have higher grades than boys in school and recent research suggests that part of this gender difference may be due to discrimination of boys. We rigorously test this in a field experiment where a random sample of the same tests in the Swedish language is subject to blind and non-blind grading. The non-blind test score is on average 15 % lower for boys than for girls. Blind gradi...