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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Poverty and education"”.
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Armed conflict, poverty and education in Naxal-affected areas of India: Gendered impacts and intersecting pathways
… improved in India over the last two decades, and efforts are being made to concurrently improve the quality of learning. However, this overall trend hides inequalities faced by certain children on the basis of gender, household poverty pathways, and contextual disadvantages such as armed …
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K-12 Economically Disadvantaged Students, Poverty, and Education: Ecological Narratives of Successful Raised-In-Poverty, Texas Educators
<p>This research study aimed to understand how successful Texas educators who grew up in poverty understood and improved the educational experience of economically disadvantaged students. This study utilized a structural ecological theory and three theories of social relationships (Social Identity, …
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A Case Study of Faculty Perceptions of the Characteristics of a High-Performing, High-Poverty School
… their mid- to high-income peers on academic standardized tests; consequently, high-poverty schools, which enroll 75 percent or more low-SES students, generally perform below proficiency standards. However, some high-poverty schools demonstrate high-performance defying the norm. The purpose of …
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Narratives of Experience in Education: Living and Working Through Poverty in a Rural Community
In this study, I use my own experiences in education as a former elementary student, research assistant, and as a current secondary school teacher, to examine how living in a marginalised rural community challenged by poverty affected my formal education. The purpose of this study was to use …
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A Comparative Analysis of Education Reform and its Impact on Socio-Economic Reform in the Twentieth Century
… framework, focuses on an analysis of American and English education policy from 1964 to 2000 with particular emphasis on the inter-relationships between education policy and socio-economic disadvantage. Although the focus of the project is primarily the last four decades of the twentieth …
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Women as industrial labour: an enquiry into economic and social consequences of growth of garments manufacturing in Bangladesh
… from readymade garments firms, women workers and a group of non-working women, this thesis investigates the factors behind women’s labour market entry, their earnings and subsequent impact on the lives of women and their households. The analytical framework has largely drawn upon economic …
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Tackling Urban Poverty in the Secondary Learning Environment
… low socioeconomic communities fail to engage and, therefore, empower students to succeed. The purpose of this dissertation is to identify how urban poverty presents in secondary learning environments (i.e. high schools), to report findings on how urban poverty presents in one urban high …
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DETERMINANTS OF BEGINNING TEACHER CAREER OUTCOMES: WHO STAYS AND WHO LEAVES?
… those in schools that are already challenged by poverty. This study makes use of the Beginning Teacher Longitudinal Survey (covering the period between 2008 and 2012) and U.S. Census data to identify which teachers leave and to explain why. Beyond that, it also offers a look into the …