Hong Kong performs particularly when it comes to reducing the impact of poverty and social background on student success. In Hong Kong, social background – which includes things like relative income, parents’ education levels and parents’ occupations – explains significantly less variation in student performance than is the case in the United States. Find out more about Hong Kong’s approach to providing high-quality education to all students in our profile of Hong Kong’s education system.
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