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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Equality of Educational Opportunity"”.
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Liberal Democratic Theory and Issues of Equality of Educational Opportunity
… is to uncover as fully as possible what our professed liberal democratic ideals require of us regarding the present provision of equality of educational opportunity for all. This undertaking is needed because although there is widespread agreement that we are rightly committed to this goal, no …
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Equality of Educational Opportunity in China: Factors from Family, School, and Shadow Education
<p>The study focused on Equality of Educational Opportunity (EEO) in China from the aspects of family, shadow education, and school. The main purpose was to find the influence of factors from the three aspects on people’s educational outcomes. The interaction effects among family, shadow education, …
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Learning for life:educational provision at Cadbury, 1831-1981
Cadbury showed concern for the welfare of its labour force in a variety of ways and not least in the provision of educational and educative-recreational facilities. The firm regarded the education of employees as having a positive effect on the efficiency of the business at the same time as being …
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Measuring the educational attainment of proprietary students: an assessment of equal opportunity from national data
… was designed to provide an overall estimate of proprietary schools' contribution to the equality of educational opportunity in the postsecondary educational system. Two compatible databases, the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS) and High School and Beyond …
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The social construction of gender in the practical arts
… the relationship between schooling and gender inequality. The study explores how gender as a social relation is organized and embedded in the daily experiences of classroom life and in the discourses of people who dwell there. The study deals with how classroom encounters contribute to the …
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Towards the Consideration of the U.S. Community College Model to Address the Need for Higher Education Reforms in Ghana
… education systems throughout the continent of Africa are undergoing unprecedented challenges and are considered in crisis. African countries, including Ghana, all have in common ties to their colonial legacy whereby they are confronted with weak policies put in place by their colonizers. …
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"Common," "system," "uniform," and "efficient" as terms of art in the education articles of state constitutions: a philosophical foundation for the American common school
One of the most important administrative problems in education today is how equitably to finance the school system of a state, since frequently the question of insufficient revenue and disparity between school divisions and states reflects a larger societal problem of commitment to public …
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An economic analysis of small rural community colleges
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between educational costs and educational output in two-year public community colleges. The research hypothesis was that small rural community colleges cannot produce the same educational output at either the same average or the same …
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Exemplary job placement projects in Virginia's secondary schools, 1968-1982
… the events that led to the establishment of the exemplary job placement projects,the organizational process of the projects in the secondary schools, the objectives most difficult to accomplish, and the current status of the projects. This study resulted from the awareness that no single …
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School Context, Peers and the Educational Achievement of Girls and Boys
… pinpointing boys as the troublemaker in modern educational systems. The notorious under-performance of boys in school and their tendency to disrupt the learning process in the class room has sparked intense academic as well as public debates about the causes of what many now call the "problem …
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“Alles, was ich schreibe, steht im Dienst der Frauen.” Zum essayistischen und fiktionalen Werk Hedwig Dohms (1833-1919)
“Everything I write is for the cause of women.” Hedwig Dohm once summarized her intention as a writer in this programmatical sentence which provides the title quote for this thesis. Her literary work encompasses theoretical essays, polemical pamphlets, dialogues, articles and book reviews, as well …