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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Inequality in education"”.
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Factors Causing Gender Inequality in Education in Tanzania: A Case of Korogwe District Secondary Schools
Education is the most important instrument for human resource development. Education is becoming a universal human right and an important component of women empowerment. Gender inequality in education is a serious problem in Tanzania since independence in 1961. There is still lower enrolment rate …
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Factors Causing Gender Inequality in Education in Tanzania: A Case of Korogwe District Secondary Schools
Education is the most important instrument for human resource development. Education is becoming a universal human right and an important component of women empowerment. Gender inequality in education is a serious problem in Tanzania since independence in 1961. There is still lower enrolment rate …
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How Inequality in Education in Ireland is Produced, Reproduced, Justified, and Resisted at the Intersection of Disability and Social Class
… is a study about how 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 …
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Gender inequality in education: An Investigation into the effects of School Management Practices on Health Behaviours of Female Students. (A Study of Selected Senior Secondary Schools in Lagos State)
This research explores gender inequality in education, with a focus to examine the implications of gender disparities in schools on girls’ health and education. The study sought to investigate whether school management practices is a possible factor impacting the health behaviours of female …
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Inequality in health care utilization and equity: a cross-country comparision of low and middle income countries
<p>This dissertation identifies the sustainable policies that can reduce disparity in health care utilization, education and income from the low and middle income countries represented by Albania, Nepal, Tajikistan and Tanzania. Concentration indices are used to calculate the income related …
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Inequality and School Performance: The Effect of the No Child Left Behind Act on the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills Test
This thesis examined the impact of teacher quality and the socioeconomic status of students on school performance on the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills Test. The data were obtained from the Academic Excellence Indicator System (AEIS) 2005-2006 Report. Disparities in education were used to …
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Essays in Economics of Education
Many developing countries have made significant progress in increasing primary school enrolments. Though, evidence on what they learn in school has been unsatisfactory. Estimates from regional student assessments across the world reveal that millions of school going children have failed to acquire …
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Efficacy of educational assistants’ programme in support of teachers in rural schools at uThukela district
The role of the educational assistants (EAs) was to support the teacher in preparing and delivering the lesson, making necessary adaptations to meet the needs of the learners. South African teachers were overburdened in the classroom. The need for government intervention stemmed from implementing …
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THE BLUEPRINT OF REFORM, SOCIAL JUSTICE QUESTIONS, AND THE MISSING PERSPECTIVE OF AFRICAN AMERICANS
… <p><em>American schools were successful in assimilating European immigrants and their descendants, this has not been the case for nonwhites. Orfield points out the fact that Native Americans, African Americans, and people of Mexican origin in the United States received little education …
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Social Innovation in the field of Education Disadvantage reduction: A study of the mechanisms leading to social change and social impact measurement
… and transformation of the country’s education system. However, challenges still exist in providing quality education, especially in marginalised groups of children. There remains room for the involvement of other sectors in the delivery of educational transformation, under the guise …
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The analysis of anti-racist perspectives and policies of the new education dispensation in South Africa
The researcher sought to investigate the antiracist approach in education which has been adopted by the Government of National Unity (GNU). The changes that have taken place in education since 1994 inform this research. The study therefore purports to reveal some of these changes as they relate to …
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Identifying academic subcultures within higher education research: an examination of scholars' careers through author cocitation
… the relationships which are formed within it, and the social products of human interaction. In recent decades, sociologists have begun to ask these questions of the scientific research community. They have been interested in identifying the social and intellectual connections which bring …
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Inequities in Education: The Case of Fulton County School District
… the United States Supreme Court came to a final decision that public schools are not allowed to use a student’s race or ethnicity as the primary factor in assigning students to particular schools. This ruling comes at a time when there are high levels of residential segregation that are …
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Three Essays on the Role of Individualized Data in Marketing
… consists of three chapters on understanding the opportunities and challenges of using individualized data in marketing, in the context of mobile economy, retailing, and education. The first chapter investigates the impact of market structure on the use and abuse of individualized data. In …
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Factors that contribute to educational success for Hispanic students in Texas school districts
The purpose of this study is to determine factors that contribute to educational success for Hispanic students in Texas school districts. The study applies and tests a synthesis of social capital and political resource theories to identify the structural determinants that impact positive …