Equality of Educational Opportunity.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the various provinces' preferential policies towards ethnic minorities in the Chinese college admission system, specifically in terms of bonus points awarded in the National College Entrance Examination.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the decision utility of selected instructional productivity indicators as seen by key campus level administrators and find that there is general agreement in the importance level assigned to the indicators, eight of the nine indicators included in the study were of relative importance to respondents and returned a scaled ranking between "important" and "of strong importance" for overall decision making.

TL;DR: Large, significant differences were found among groups on engagement behaviors, even after background and psychological characteristics were controlled statistically, and support the hypothesis that student engagement is an important component of academic resilience.

TL;DR: In this article, Nieto makes student learning the primary objective of multicultural education and draws on a host of research in learning styles, multiple intelligences and cognitive theories to portray the way students learn, taking the reader beyond individual learners to discuss the social context of learning, educational equity, the influence of culture on learning and critical pedagogy.

TL;DR: The authors summarizes the recent literature on peer effects in student outcomes at the elementary, secondary, and post-secondary levels at the university and high school levels. But the linear-in-means model masks considerable heterogeneity in the effects experienced by different types of students.

TL;DR: The diffusion of policies across countries has been studied extensively by sociologists and political scientists as discussed by the authors, pointing to the diverse mechanisms that are theorized and to promising avenues for distinguishing among causal mechanisms.