OECD Education Working Papers
This series is designed to make available to a wider readership selected studies drawing on the work of the OECD Directorate for Education. Authorship is usually collective, but principal writers are named. The papers are generally available only in their original language (English or French) with a short summary available in the other.
- ISSN: 19939019 (online)
- https://doi.org/10.1787/19939019
A Literature Review of School Practices to Overcome School Failure
This working paper was prepared as part of the OECD thematic review Overcoming School Failure: Policies
that Work, www.oecd.org/edu/equity. The project provides evidence on the policies that are effective to reduce
school failure by improving low attainment and reducing dropout, and proactively supports countries in
promoting reform. The project builds on the conceptual framework developed in the OECD’s No More Failures:
Ten Steps to Equity in Education (2007). Austria, Canada (Manitoba, Ontario, Québec and Yukon), Czech
Republic, France, Greece, Ireland, Netherlands, Spain and Sweden took part in this project.
This working paper is part of a series of papers prepared for the thematic review Overcoming School Failure:
Policies that Work covering the topics of policies to reduce dropout and in-school practices to reduce school
failure. These report have been used as background material for the final comparative report Equity and Quality
in Education: Supporting Disadvantaged Schools and Students (OECD, 2012), which gives evidence on the
policy levers that can help overcome school failure and reduce inequities in OECD education systems. It focuses
on the reasons why investing in overcoming school failure -early and up to upper secondary- pays off, on
alternatives to specific system level policies that are currently hindering equity, and on the actions to be taken at
school level, in particular in low performing disadvantaged schools.
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