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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Education Access"”.
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A capability-informed policy analysis of higher education access for rural youth in Botswana
… A capability-informed policy analysis of higher education access for rural youth in Botswana, focused on rural youth’s experiences with arrangements with access in higher education to identify capabilities and constrain factors of access for the rural youth in Botswana. The mixed-method study …
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Poverty and the Challenge of Quality Primary and Secondary School Education Access in Mara-Tanzania
… and capability deprivation as a result of education limitation–leading to ignorance decease, again poverty, and its consequences. As I write, education has been promoted in Tanzania, and more children have access to education than ever, and yet, it doesn't warrant that children have a fair …
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The Forms of Capital and Intergenerational Change in Higher Education Access: A Case Study of Aranguez
The study explores higher education access in a marginalised community within a post-colonial context, specifically, why access was low given supportive government policies. The case study of Aranguez, a former sugar-cane plantation in Trinidad, involved interviews with descendants of East Indian …
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The sociology of teaching and learning undergraduate social statistics in higher education: Access, assessment and arts-based research methods
… instructors face the challenges of facilitating access to course knowledge for undergraduate students enrolled in online introductory statistics courses. Each of the three articles are interrelated by the unifying theme but contributes in its own distinct way. The first article is a systematic …
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Geographic inequities in local higher education opportunities? : identifying college deserts with critical GIS
… is heavily impacted by having postsecondary education, access to college is a pertinent research topic. Access is a widely researched topic, but only recently has college access been studied specifically. This study proposes a geographic information systems based methodology for quantifying …
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School choice : a discrete optimization approach
… attends dramatically impacts the quality of education, access to resources, family and neighborhood cohesion, and transportation costs. Facing this intricate optimization problem, school districts often utilize to stable-matching techniques which only produce stable matchings that do not …
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Who benefits from online education? How the implementation of technology in higher education can result in increasing inequalities in higher education institutions
… literature is inconclusive on how technology in education influences student outcomes and whether it will lead to an improvement in tertiary education access. This paper aims to determine whether the implementation of technology in higher education will lead to an improvement in the access to …
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Perspectives on Equity in Gifted Education
<p>Increasing pressures of accountability in education and calls for equity make gifted education a controversial topic. While much has been written about certain aspects of equity, such as underrepresented groups in gifted education, little research has examined a more complex view of what makes a …
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Higher education enrollment patterns by school district characteristics: An analysis of relationships between student educational contexts and postsecondary enrollment
Increasing postsecondary access and attainment for historically underserved students is an ongoing priority for states and higher education institutions, but the educational and community contexts informing student enrollment decisions needs to be better understood. This study used 2016-2017 K-12 …
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DISCUSSING THE RACIAL ASSOCIATION WITH BLACK MATERNAL MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY AND THE ROLE OF PUBLIC INTELLECTUALISM IN PROVIDING EQUITABLE HEALTHCARE THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA.
… outcomes. These factors almost always include education access and quality, health care access and quality, neighborhood and built environment, economic stability and social and community context. All of these factors play a role in how individuals and communities maintain their health. Social …
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What Happened? An Examination of Critical Change in the 2016 Election
… level, regression analyses suggest that voters’ education, access to health care, union membership, racial/ethnic diversity, and income level all had statistically significant relationships with votes in both elections and with the change in vote between 2016 and 2012, all were substantively …
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Access to higher education as a point of transition for mature students, an experience by which they are transformed
This thesis explores Access to Higher Education (Access) as a site of transition and a transformative experience for mature students studying in Further Education (FE) and interrogates how widening participation policy discourse for under-represented groups, posits mature students’ identity, as one …
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A Study of the Value of "Measuring Up" as a Tool for State Policymakers in Developing Postsecondary Education Policy for Three Eastern States
… the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education's national state based higher education report card, as a tool for state leaders in developing postsecondary educational policy. The researcher interviewed state postsecondary leaders in Maryland, North Carolina and Virginia, including …
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Challenges of Managing Large Secondary School Classrooms in Kyerwa District
… in order to comply with SEDP goals in Secondary education in Kyerwa district. The study was guided by the following questions: What are the teachers’ perspectives on large classrooms? What are the strategies that teachers employ to manage classrooms? And what are the challenges that teachers face …
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Religious Influences in Thai Female Education (1889-1931)
… examines the impact of religion on female access to education in Thailand from 1889 to 1931 -- the early Modernization Period in Thailand -- a critical time of advancement and modernization in the nation. Although Thailand had traditionally been a Buddhist nation-state, Protestant …
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Access Retention and Performance among Maasai primary School Boys and Girls in Monduli District
The study on “Access Retention and Performance among Maasai primary school boys and girls:” This study was conducted in Monduli, in three ecological areas. The objective of the study was to analyse the patterns and causes of access, retention and performances among primary schools boys and girls. …
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Maasai Girls Access to Secondary Education in Ngorongoro District
… study focused on factors affecting Maasai girls access to secondary education in Ngorongoro District. It was guided by five objectives that focused on enrolment status of girls; retention and completion rate; passing rates for Form IV examinations, selection to form V and other tertiary …
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Aboriginal women in education : Honouring our experiences a vision of access to and success within the university
This thesis explores Aboriginal women's access to and success within universities through an examination of Aboriginal women's educational narratives, along with input from key service providers from both the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal community. Implemented through the Wildfire Research Method, …
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Sexual Knowledge and Learning in Apartheid South Africa, c. 1950-1990
… in Africa to integrate comprehensive sexuality education into its school curriculum. However, a very different policy landscape existed prior to democratic transition in 1994. The apartheid regime imposed a stringent racial hierarchy that extended to educational institutions, influencing the …
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How Inequality in Education in Ireland is Produced, Reproduced, Justified, and Resisted at the Intersection of Disability and Social Class
… intersect in the lives of young adults in higher education in Ireland to reveal complex inequality, oppression, privilege and power. The overall aim of this study is to identify how disability and social class are constructed and enacted in education in Ireland, how they intersect to maintain, …
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