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Starting Strong V: Transition from Early Childhood Education and Care to Primary Education – Background report – Finland

The transition from early childhood education to primary school is a big step for all children, and a step which more and more children are having to take. Quality transitions should be well-prepared and child-centred, managed by trained staff collaborating with one another, and guided by an appropriate and aligned curriculum.

Archived webinar - PISA Q&A Webinar - Students' Financial Literacy" with Andreas Schleicher - Director for the Directorate of Education and Skills

PISA 2015 Results (Volume IV): Students’ Financial Literacy, explores students’ experience with and knowledge about money and provides an overall picture of 15-year-olds’ ability to apply their accumulated knowledge and skills to real-life situations involving financial issues and decisions.

Is more choice always a good thing? (OECD Education Today Blog)

Many education systems around the world are looking for ways to give parents more choice over where they send their children to school.

PISA 2015 Results (Volume IV) - Students' Financial Literacy

Dollars and sense? Financial literacy among 15-year-olds (OECD Education Today Blog)

Two in three 15-year-old students earn money from work activity, and more than one in two hold a bank account.

Do new teachers feel prepared for teaching? (OECD Education Today Blog)

One of the greatest challenge for new teachers, does not come from not knowing what to teach, but from not knowing how to teach what they know and how to manage a classroom in all its strange and exciting complexity.

Teaching in Focus No. 17: “Do new teachers feel prepared for teaching?”

New teachers are more likely to feel prepared in the content of their subject field(s), rather than the pedagogy or classroom practice of their subject field(s).

Assessing school assessment in Romania (OECD Education Today Blog)

Romania has been one of Europe’s success stories in terms of delivering improved results. Over the past decade, only Portugal has seen faster improvement in our PISA science assessment than Romania.

Romania 2017

Archived webinar - PISA Q&A Webinar - New Data and Insights from PISA on Students' Well Being

with Andreas Schleicher, Director for the Directorate of Education and Skills