Social Science Activities

Education

In 2019 the Foundation held expert seminars, conferences and round tables in collaboration with the Foundation Society and Education. Additionally, the work Comments on indicators of the Spanish education system 2019 and the monographs The role of parents in the development of their children's reading skills and The phenomenon of educational resilience in primary education were published and presented.

LUGDER WOESSMANN, from the University of Munich, delivered the lecture The Importance of School Systems: Evidence from International Differences in Student Achievement. This talk gives an overview about what we can learn from international student tests, covering the important role of educational achievement for economic prosperity, the limited role of resources in improving student achievement, and the important role of institutions – private competition, school autonomy, student assessments, and tracking – for improving student achievement.

Lugder Woessmann, Munich University

We present the categories in which the Social Sciences activities of the year 2019 are included: