following rapid and explosive population growth in urban settlements that was result of immigration, urban servicing as an important issue in urban planning has been studied equality in services distribution in urban areas causes equality and social justice. this paper investigates urban services distribution pattern ( educational, health, cultural, religious and sport) in 5th region of tehran ...

During the past few decades South Korea has experienced a remarkable expansion in its educational system, distinctive that there has been an extraordinary increase in both quantity and quality of education. Along with dramatic differences between the educational attainment of recent and older cohorts, educational policies that have emphasized competition and growth rather than equality of educa...

Gender gaps in educational access, schooling quality and labour market outcomes are pervasive in Pakistan. This brief discusses the findings of three recent studies in Pakistan that highlight the role of education in improving individual productivity, increasing earnings, bringing people out of poverty and providing a pathway to gender equality in the labour market. The papers note the policy i...

The basic tradition in the education of mi nority children in this country has been grounded in the "compensatory" approach on the assump tion that black, latin, and other minority groups have special deficiencies that must be "made up" in the educational effort. The overwhelming opinion has been that blacks were educationally deficient and thus cul turally inferior. Even those who believed in ...

Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment in Germany: The Last Five Decades Over the last decades the German education system underwent numerous reforms in order to improve "equality of opportunity", i.e. to guarantee all pupils equal access to higher education. At the same time internationally comparative evidence yields that Germany features particularly low intergenerational m...

In this paper I present and defend a highly demanding principle of justice in education that has not been seriously discussed thus far. According to the suggested approach, “all the way equality”, justice in education requires nothing short of equal educational outcome between all individual students. This means not merely between equally able children, or between children from different groups...

Sweden represents an interesting paradox in regards to egalitarian matters. It is considered one of the most egalitarian countries in the world, with strong norms about gender equality, and repeatedly ranks favourably and near the top of various measures of gender equality (e.g., Hausmann, Tyson, & Zahidi, 2012). There is a higher educational attainment for women than men, extensive legal and f...