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Exploring The Factors That Affect Secondary Student’S Mathematics And Portuguese Performance In Portugal, Lulu Cheng
Exploring The Factors That Affect Secondary Student’S Mathematics And Portuguese Performance In Portugal, Lulu Cheng
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Secondary education provides not only knowledge and skills, but also inculcates values, training of instincts, fostering right attitude and habits to enable adolescents to move into tertiary education or to ensure a workplace for students who decided to terminate their secondary schooling. Without secondary education to guide the development of young people through their adolescence, they will be ill prepared for tertiary education or for workplace, moreover, the possibility of juvenile delinquency and teenage pregnancy becomes higher. These negative effects will increase the pressures and expenditures on society and socio-economic. In 2006, Portugal was reported having the higher school-leaving rate …