HOW CAN EVERY HUNGARIAN GET A FAIR CHANCE? - STRENGTHENING THE ABILITY OF THE

In the average of the The severity of the disparities in opportunities is OECD countries, the socio-economic status of the also highlighted by the fact that youths from an student’s family explains 12.9% of the differences underprivileged background make up a mere 1.4% in the competencies measured by the PISA tests; of the students who ultimately make it into higher in Hungary, by contrast, it exp. [...] The impact of social differences is boosted especially by early social selection, the creation of classes of The share of students from multiply disadvantaged students that are homogeneous in terms of their backgrounds who perform worse in the reading and performance and the social status of the students’ mathematical competency tests is four times as high families – in other words, the educationa. [...] The flight of better situated families from disadvantaged regions and the high number of children REPRODUCING POVERTY in the families left behind increases the number and share of children who live in poverty in the underprivileged The striking gaps in the students’ levels of knowledge regions of the country. [...] The gradual failure in school of many The share of Roma children and families in these students from underprivileged backgrounds, the fact regions is higher than the national average, which is that they fall extremely behind in education and often why the shift in the ethnic makeup is often associated drop out of elementary or secondary education, are all with the social problems of the given regi. [...] These topics include robotization, the transforming labour market, the air quality and the pollution of freshwater, national identity and the role of communities in a society, the future of education, the country’s economic take-off, or the changing world order.