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The effects of the 2004 Minority Education Reform on pupils’ performance in Latvia

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  • Artjoms Ivïevs

    (University of the West of England, Bristol)

  • Roswitha King

    (University of Latvia)

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One quarter of all school children in Latvia go to the publicly funded minority (predominantly Russian) schools. In 2004, the language of instruction in minority schools was changed from essentially minority language to a composite of 60% Latvian and 40% minority. This paper studies the effects of this "60/40" reform on the academic performance of pupils in minority schools. We find that there has been a significant deterioration in the exam performance of minority schools relative to that of majority schools after the reform year 2004.

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  • Artjoms Ivïevs & Roswitha King, 2012. "The effects of the 2004 Minority Education Reform on pupils’ performance in Latvia," Working Papers 20121204, Department of Accounting, Economics and Finance, Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, Bristol.
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    Keywords

    Bilingual education; Latvia; minorities; policy evaluation;
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    JEL classification:

    • J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
    • I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
    • I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy
    • P36 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions - - - Consumer Economics; Health; Education and Training; Welfare, Income, Wealth, and Poverty

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