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    Family background, gender and reading achievement in Romania
    (Fundatia 'Orient Expres', 2015) Țoc, Sebastian; Gheba, Andreea
    In the last years, Romania formally tried to overcome the problems related to inequality of opportunity in education. This paper examines the role of home resources and gender in determining academic performance. Based on secondary data drawn from Progress in International Reading Literacy Study we suggest that both gender and home resources have a significant impact on the reading achievement of students. The existing work operationalizes the differences in reading achievement as an indicator for life chances, being proportional with economic success later in life. Our findings contradict ideas about equality of opportunity promoted by the official curriculum regarding the individual merit as the main factor that places students in privileged social positions.
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    Tranziția inechitabilă către sistemul liceal : studiu de caz: admiterea la liceu în București, România.
    (Expert Projects Publishing House, 2021) Gheba, Andreea
    The main objective of this article is to analyze the interaction between the principle of proximity in the enrollment process to primary school and the high school admission mechanism from an educational equity perspective. Specifi cally, I conduct a case study in which I analyze how the type of school graduated by a student in Bucharest infl uences the type of high school at which she will be admitted, given the present system of allocation. As such, I am interested in identifying the extent to which the school where the student is enrolled (when parents, theoretically cannot choose, as it is dependent on the street where they reside) can represent an explanatory factor for the probability to be admitted at a particular high school (a stage when parents and students can manifest their preferences for a school/specialization).