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education and associated years of schooling have expanded substantially in developing countries in recent years. But has this … improvements in the access to the education system and in educational outcomes across the welfare distribution between and within … schooling years. We find great heterogeneity in the distribution of progress of education, with very little pro-poor progress in …
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extent of private education. Drawing on examples from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Peru, Romania, Russia …, South Africa, Zimbabwe and other countries, Professor Tooley gave a snapshot of private education that was unknown to many … readers; contrary to expectations, the private education sector was large in the countries studied, was innovative, and was …
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This paper evaluates how the July 2005 London terrorist attacks affected Muslim teenagers' education plans and … continue in full-time education. I examine panel data on educational attitudes from the "Next Steps" Survey in England and use … negatively affected the education plans of Muslims, but not those of any other major religious group. The probability of planning …
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This paper provides the estimates of average years of schooling in India for individuals aged 15 and above. The estimates are based on the nationally representative household surveys conducted by the National Sample Survey Organization, Government of India. We use the four rounds of employment...
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Children who suffer severe, long-lasting injuries at the hands of school bullies have thus far realized little or no hope of recovery at law for the harm done. This article starts by clarifying the definition of what educational researcher mean by “bullying”, its effects, and known...
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This article addresses the process by which the typical school board member or legislator has been asked to mandate the inclusion of intelligent design theory and critiques of evolution into the public school curriculum. It posits that as a matter of scientific theory, this debate is taking...
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resources which they have and are willing to spend for an adequate training of all categories of personnel involved in education …
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/ University education, such as skills, competences, new research trends, TICs, accreditation and quality assurance, etc. However … European Higher Education Area, and are supposed to be placed at the very centre of the teaching-learning process, however, no …
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Charter schools and special education for disabled students are founded on conflicting education reforms and agency … engine of agency oversight. In stark contrast, special education laws were conceived in the civil rights era of education … reform, which emphasized process and paid little attention to outcomes. The education of disabled students is steeped in a …
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This paper investigates how community attitudes affect school attendance and child labor and how aggregate behavior of the community feeds back towards the formation and persistence of an anti- (or pro-) schooling norm. The proposed community-model continues to take aggregate and idiosyncratic...
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