The gordian knit between quality and inequality of education: A cross-national attempt to unraveling

Abstract

This book is one of the products of the European Forum organized by the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute in Florence (Italy) in the academic year 2006/2007. The aim of this EuropeanForum was to explore primarily not only the PISA data sets, but also other relevant cross-national data sets (TIMSS, European Social Survey) to provide answers to scientific and policy questions on quality of education and its relationships to various forms of inequality in modern societies, especially in Europe societies, including economy, legal systems, and historical background. Director of this European Forum was Jaap Dronkers, professor at the European University Institute in the chair of Social Stratification and Inequality. The authors of this book were all related to this European Forum, either as post-doctoral fellow, Max Weber Fellow, fellow of the Foundation for Polish Science, visitor or trainee. © 2010 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.