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Showing 1 to 20 of 122 for “"Equal access"”.
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The Equal Access to Justice Act and Federal Land Management: Incentives to Litigate?
… been documented within the Forest Service. The Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA), which allows successful litigants to recover attorney fees and other legal expenses from the federal government, has come under much scrutiny in discussions surrounding Forest Service litigation. In spite of …
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Cultural membership and web-based training : does everyone really have equal access to programming?
Access to abstract permanently restricted to Ball State community only.
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Equal Access To Educational Opportunities In Texas: An Analysis Of English Language Learner Programs
… language learner programs designed to ensure equal access to educational opportunities necessitated an examination of reading outcomes for elementary school students that produced three major themes were viewed through the lens of the three research questions which guided this study. The first …
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Rights and Equal Access of Women in Employment in Public Sectors. Case of Fire Brigade Unit of the Ministry of Home Affairs in Tanzania
This study attempted to investigate right and equal access of women in employment in public sectors. Thirty members of the Fire Brigade Headquarter in Dar es Salaam were identified for the study using simple random sampling. Multiple methods were used for data collection, namely structured …
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The Equal Access Act: “Not the Access for All Students Except Gay Students Act”: Federal Judicial Decisions and Their Implications for School Systemsâ Policies and Practices Regarding Student Requests to Establish Gay Straight Alliance Clubs in Public Schools
… & Rogers, 2008). Despite the passage of the Equal Access Act (EAA) in 1984, school leaders have often denied non-heterosexual students the right to establish GSA clubs on campus, consequently resulting in these students utilizing the judicial system as the venue to assert their rights under …
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A critical examination of copyright limitations and exceptions for the visually impaired pertaining to literary works in South Africa in the local and global context
… in terms of the Copyright Act, fails to provide equal access to literary works for the visually impaired community compared to the able bodied community. In failing to provide equal access, the South African government has failed to realise the theoretical justifications underpinning the law of …
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Accessibility and Fairness of the Nevada Court System
… most basic tenets of the judicial system require access to justice and a fair process in reaching judgment. Thus this research sought to determine whether Nevada courts were accessible and fair. One might think, it is easy enough to determine by simply looking at who won or lost the case, however, …
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Accesibilidad y estandarización en el ciclo de creación de materiales educativos
… society, to produce educational materials accessible via standards for equal access.
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Equity in Opportunity: Minority Student Enrollment in Advanced, Advanced Placement, and International Baccalaureate English and Mathematics Courses in Virginia Public High Schools
Equal access in education has proven to be less than sufficient regarding academic success for all students (Atchison et al., 2017; Glynn and Wassell, 2018). Previous research indicates that despite efforts to impart significant reforms in public education within the United States, few gains have …
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Analysis of school board policies relating to the Establishment Clause
… prayer, Bible reading, release time programs and equal access. Approximately 91 percent of the schools in the Commonwealth responded to this study. Approximately 55 percent of the schools returned policies which governed at least one Establishment Clause issue. Approximately 36 percent of the …
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School transformation : the barriers, challenges, and obstacles, explored through turnaround principal's perspectives.
… Education Act aimed to ensure that children have equal access to excellent educational opportunities. This qualitative study targeted seven Turnaround Principals of schools located in Northeast Georgia to identify the barriers, challenges, and obstacles of school transformation. The outcome of …
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Difficulties experienced by grade 6 isiXhosa-speaking learners in learning science through the medium of English: A case study at a primary school in the Western Cape
… right to language was that this would provide equal opportunities and equal access to education for all learners. All learners would then be able to attain academic success. The study was pursued against the backdrop of the serious academic underachievement of African learners at schools around …
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Experiences of Parents Advocating for the “Complicated Child”: A Phenomenologically Oriented Descriptive Exploration
… and obstacles that misdirect and prevent access to information that parents desperately need to participate in the IEP process. The second data set included semi-structured interviews with four mothers, as well as the author’s own experiences, in which parents were asked three subsets of …
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Slim chance : adult students' access to university-administered merit-based undergraduate scholarships
… (undergraduates aged 25 year and older) have equal access to undergraduate scholarships at one Canadian university. Framed by understanding of relational differences between members of social groups and by how formal equality can result in differing experiences for those who are substantively …
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The diversity of participants in clinical trials involving allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients
… work be done in order to ensure everyone has equal access to clinical trials.</p>
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Public libraries' commitment to gay youth
… youth in their communities by providing free and equal access to lesbigay literature and/or offering programs and outreach to this group of young adults. Most previous research looked at school libraries in the United States and libraries in Canada. This study investigated selected public …
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Going 1:1- Writing Policy to Support The 21st Century Student: A Policy Advocacy Document
… the learning gaps between students who have access to technology and those who don’t, this study proposes that District 123 create a policy to support a 1:1 Chromebook initiative. Using Browder’s needs analysis model, the impact of a 1:1 program is analyzed through the educational, social, …
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Examining the intention-behavior gap: The impact of the food environment on the eating behaviors of low-income African American women
… less unhealthy eating when there was relatively equal access to nearby unhealthy and healthy food retailers. When given both options, in the context of high motivation, individuals may be more likely to decline unhealthy foods consisting of high amounts of oils, fats, and sugars. A combination of …
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They throw pebbles in our garden: Women and consumerism in the Soviet Union from Lenin to Khrushchev
<p>My work provides a background to gender equality in the Soviet Union from its inception, the nascent Lenin era, the autocratic Stalin era and it culminates with a focus on the Khrushchev regime. My work demonstrates that although the Khrushchev era sought to ameliorate women's double burden of …
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DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE AND THE MANAGEMENT OF ORTHOPAEDIC TRAUMA
… consideration in ensuring that all patients have equal access to the resources and care in the treatment of their injuries. The literature well documents demographic and socioeconomic factors in the allocation of elective orthopaedic surgeries, but unfortunately a similar analysis is lacking when …
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