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Stamm, Margrit Magdaalena – Education & Training, 2013
Purpose: The aim of this article is to explore the phenomenon of gifted migrants in vocational training and education. To date, migrant apprentices have been predominantly discussed from a deficit perspective. Special attention has been given to competence insufficiency and underperformance, as well as to migrant adolescents' lack of professional…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Attainment, Resilience (Psychology)
Finkel, Ed – District Administration, 2012
If the results of the most recent international achievement tests were graded on a curve, U.S. students probably would rank somewhere in the B range. They placed 14th in reading, 17th in science and 25th in mathematics among 70 countries whose 15-year-olds participated in the 2009 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) testing, the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Standardized Tests, Global Approach, Educational Practices