Quality and Inequality of Education
Jaap Dronkers Editor Quality and Inequality of Education Cross-National Perspectives 123
Editor Prof. Jaap Dronkers Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market/ROA Maastricht University Tongersestraat 53 6211 LM Maastricht The Netherlands j.dronkers@maastrichtuniversity.nl ISBN 978-90-481-3992-7 e-isbn 978-90-481-3993-4 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-3993-4 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2010921983 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Contents The Gordian Knit Between Quality and Inequality of Education: A Cross-National Attempt to Unraveling... 1 Jaap Dronkers Part I Institutional Arrangements and Educational Outcomes The Influence of Educational Segregation on Educational Achievement 13 Peter Robert Institutional Tracking and Achievement Growth: Exploring Difference-in-Differences Approach to PIRLS, TIMSS, and PISA Data... 41 Maciej Jakubowski Educational Expansion and Social Class Returns to Tertiary Qualifications in Post-communist Countries... 83 Erzsébet Bukodi Part II Migration and Educational Inequality Educational Gaps Between Immigrant and Native Students in Europe: The Role of Grade... 113 Hyunjoon Park and Gary Sandefur How Do School Regimes Tackle Ethnic Segregation: Some Insights Supported in PISA 2006... 137 Miquel Àngel Alegre and Gerard Ferrer Esteban The Educational Attainment of Second Generation Immigrants from Different Countries of Origin in the EU Member-States... 163 Jaap Dronkers and Fenella Fleischmann Talking the Same Language: How Does Education in the Mother Tongue Affect the Pupils Scholastic Achievement in the Parallel School Systems?... 205 Adél Pásztor v
vi Contents Part III Education in Europe and Asia: Analogies and Differences The Intergenerational Transmission of Income and Education: A Comparison of Japan and France... 229 Arnaud Lefranc, Fumiaki Ojima, and Takashi Yoshida Japanese and Korean High Schools and Students in Comparative Perspective... 255 Hyunjoon Park Family Background, School System and Academic Achievement in Germany and in Japan... 275 Fumiaki Ojima and Susanne von Below Features of Educational Systems as Factors in the Creation of Unequal Educational Outcomes... 299 Jaap Dronkers Author Index... 329 Subject Index... 333
Contributors Miquel Àngel Alegre Institut de Govern i Polítiques Públiques, Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain, muguelangel.alegre@uab.cat; miguelangel.alegre@uab.cat Erzsébet Bukodi Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education, University of London, London WC1H OAL, UK, e.bukodi@ioe.ac.uk Jaap Dronkers Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market/ROA, Maastricht University, Tongersestraat 53, 6211 LM Maastricht, The Netherlands, j.dronkers@maastrichtuniversity.nl Gerard Ferrer Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain Fenella Fleischmann Universities of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, f.fleischmann@uu.nl Maciej Jakubowski Education, Indicators and Analysis Division, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Programme for International Student Assessment, 75016 Paris, France, maciej.jakubowski@oecd.org; mjakubowski@uw.edu.pl Arnaud Lefranc THEMA, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, Cergy-Pontoise, France, arnaud.lefranc@u-cergy.fr Fumiaki Ojima Doshisha University, Shinmachi-dori Imadegawa Agaru, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto, 602-8580 Japan, fojima@mail.doshisha.ac.jp Hyunjoon Park Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, hypark@sas.upenn.edu Adél Pásztor Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, University of Amsterdam, 1012DL Amsterdam, Netherlands, A.Pasztor@uva.nl; adel.pasztor@gmail.com Peter Robert Social Science Faculty, ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary; Geary Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland, peter.robert@ucd.ie; robert@tarki.hu Gary Sandefur Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA vii
viii Contributors Susanne von Below Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Statistics, International Comparative Analyses, 11055 Berlin, Germany, Susanne.Below@bmbf.bund.de Takashi Yoshida Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, tyoshida@hus.osaka-u.ac.jp