The project “Bibliotecando” began in September 2005 and lasted till April 2006. Its aim was to define the “new” rule of school library region Piedmont (Northern Italy) from point view students, their relatives citizens .It carried out by so called Nucleo Biblioteche (Task Force for School Libraries) Regional Office Turin. consists three phases: a survey, competitition an action “To read or not ...

In today’s increasingly ‘‘flat’’ world of globalization (Friedman 2005), the need for a scientifically literate citizenry has grown more urgent. Yet, by some measures, we have done a poor job at fostering scientific habits of mind in schools. Recent research on informal games-based learning indicates that such technologies and the communities they evoke may be one viable alternative—not as a su...

What impact does school quality have on educational outcomes, and what aspects of school quality matter most, remain hotly debated issues in the economics of education. Ambiguity mainly comes from empirical difficulties in separating school effects from the role of various confounding unobserved student characteristics. In this paper, we are able to identify the role of school quality by taking...