The STRIDE Toolbox is an evidence-to-policy platform designed to bridge European educational research and daily political governance. Instead of reinventing the wheel, this platform lets you analyse what peer systems across Europe have already tested, what worked, and what failed.
Analyzing large-scale assessment studies across EU Member States, Norway, and the UK reveals persistent gaps in student achievement linked to family background, gender, migration status, and school location, alongside critical insights into early childhood education policies.
Educational policy across Europe over the past quarter-century shows a steady increase in reform activity aimed at mitigating social inequalities, driven by international benchmarking and EU equity targets. However, significant structural and implementation gaps remain.
A user seeks to investigate whether SES is associated with differences in mathematics achievement among 15-year-old students in Hungary using the STRIDE map.
The case studies you find in the toolbox have comprehensively evaluated the long-term impacts of significant Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) policies across England, Poland, Hungary, Norway and Denmark using a rigorous mixed-methods approach.
In 2009, Denmark introduced mandatory language assessment of children in grade 0 (age 6). In this research project we look at the policy change using a multi-method approach. We conduct a quantitative analysis to examine possible long-term effects of this policy initiative on educational outcomes.
In this article we focus on the reform Free core time in kindergarten, in Norway and how it is related to social inequality in school, especially in the immigrant population it was first targeted at.
In the Polish context, regional disparities are especially significant due to long-standing differences in economic development, quality of life, and access to public services.
Mandatory kindergarten (pre-school) from the age of 3 was introduced in Hungary in 2015 (codified by the Act CXC of 2011 on Public Upbringing ). In practice, this means that every child has to enroll in kindergarten in the academic year starting after their 3rd birthday (unless the family requests and receives exemption until age 4 based on personal circumstances).
Mandatory language assessment in Grade 0 is a universal national reform introduced in Denmark in 2009. It requires all children in public schools to undergo language screening at the start of compulsory schooling, with the aim of identifying language difficulties early, standardizing previously uneven local practices, and informing subsequent pedagogical responses.