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Against the odds : disadvantaged students who succeed in school.
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ISBN: 9789264089952 9264089950 9789264090873 Year: 2011 Publisher: Paris OECD

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Many socio-economically disadvantaged students excel in PISA. This publication focuses on students who succeed at school despite a disadvantaged background. The report shows that overcoming barriers to achievement is possible, and provides students, parents, policy makers and other education stakeholders insights into what enables socio-economically disadvantaged students to fulfill their potential. Resilient students are characterized by positive approaches to learning, for example, having more interest in science or having more self-confidence. The evidence in PISA shows that positive approaches to learning tend to boost the performance of advantaged students more than that of disadvantaged ones. From an equity perspective, therefore, policies aimed at fostering positive approaches to learning ought to target disadvantaged students more than others.--Publisher's description.

Poor kids in a rich country : America's children in comparative perspective
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ISBN: 0871547023 Year: 2003 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : Russell Sage Foundation,

Child poverty and deprivation in the industrialized countries, 1945-1995
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ISBN: 0198290756 Year: 1997 Publisher: Oxford Clarendon Press

The human rights of street and working children : a practical manual for advocates
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ISBN: 1853394491 Year: 1998 Publisher: Exeter Intermediate Technology

Children of the Laboring Poor : Expectation and Experience among the Orphans of Early Modern Augsburg
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ISBN: 0391042246 9780391042247 9781429426282 1429426284 9781433707803 1433707802 1280859016 9786610859016 9047403940 9789047403944 Year: 2005 Publisher: Leiden; Boston : BRILL,

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A companion volume to Charity and Economy in the Orphanages of Early Modern Augsburg , this book takes up the agency and individuality of the laboring poor and their children. It examines the economic lives of poor, distressed, or truncated families on the basis of 5,734 biographical descriptions of children who passed through the City, Catholic, and Lutheran orphanages of Augsburg between 1572 and 1806. Studied in conjunction with administrative, criminal, and fiscal records of various sorts, these "Orphan Books" reveal the laboring poor as flexible and adaptive. Their fates were determined neither by the poverty they suffered nor the charity they received. Rather, they responded to changing economic and social conditions by using Augsburg's orphanages to extend their resources, care for their children, and create opportunities. The findings will interest historians of poverty, charity, labor, and the Reformation.

Growing up in an urbanising world
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ISBN: 9231038176 1853838284 1853838276 Year: 2002 Publisher: Paris Unesco


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Global child poverty and well-being : measurement, concepts, policy and action
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ISBN: 1447307232 1447301145 9786613532527 128012864X 9781447301141 9781280128646 9781447307235 9781847424822 1847424821 9781847424815 1847424813 1447312767 Year: 2012 Publisher: Bristol : Policy,

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