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The continuous deterioration of the quality of education in the Philippines has prompted the DepEd to push for the … implementation of the K to 12 program, which entails the institutionalization of kindergarten and the addition of two more years of … high school in the basic education cycle. The proposal has spurred a heated debate on whether it could lead to improvements …
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application process. Using data from the Kindergarten cohort of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, our instrumental variables … estimates suggest that children receiving subsidized care in the year before kindergarten score lower on tests of cognitive … ability and reveal more behavior problems throughout kindergarten. However, these negative effects largely disappear by the …
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Development education policy has recently focused on school-based recognition and conditional cash transfer programs to … that focus on levels (rather than changes) of achievement can exacerbate inequality in education. In addition, our findings …
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.21 less years of education as an adult. In the short-term, the effects are stronger than in the long run. Further, children …
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to improve the quality of education in urban slums. A remedial education programme hired young women from the community …
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A comprehensive White Paper on India’s higher education policy for a pragmatic programmatic for at least the next 20 … consideration the size of the age-cohort population in the relevant age-groups, and cover all issues relating to higher education … such as ensuring social justice through education for all, relevance of public-private partnership, admission policy …
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Education (C.A.B.E.) held on 10-11 August, 2004, a Committee of C.A.B.E. was constituted vide Order dated 8.9.04 of the Ministry … in Art. 21-A of the Constitution, and (b) To examine other issues related to elementary education for achieving the … objective of free and compulsory basic education.†This is its report …
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following sections: Section I sets out the meaning and implications of the right to education. Section II examines the extent to … which the realities of our elementary education system and the normative content of government policy in this regard match … the requirements of the right to education. Section III takes a comprehensive look at the provisions of the Bill and …
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of the basic questions such as what ought to be the purpose of education?’ This paper addresses these and other issues. …
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This paper focuses on poverty dynamics and their determinants, using panel survey data for rural Sindh, Pakistan. Households interviewed by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) during 1986–91, were resurveyed in 2004–05 with minimal attrition.
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