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

Artjoms Ivïevs () and Roswitha King
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Artjoms Ivïevs: University of the West of England, Bristol
Roswitha King: University of Latvia
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Working Papers from Department of Accounting, Economics and Finance, Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, Bristol

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Bilingual education; Latvia; minorities; policy evaluation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I28 J15 P36 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-01-04
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