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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"compulsory schooling"”.
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More Qualifications and Less Dropout? From Compulsory Schooling to Vocational Education in Italy
… systemic policies: raising the age of compulsory schooling and creating alternative tracks for completing education. They aimed to achieve the same goal—reducing dropping out—but using different strategies. Despite the diffusion of these reforms, it is not clear to what extent one or …
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Crafting one’s own narrative : high-income immigrant parental choices and practices relative to Icelandic compulsory schooling
Það verður æ algengara að foreldrar þurfi að takast á við erlent menntakerfi. Meira að segja Ísland, fjarlæg eyja í norður-Atlantshafi, hefur gjörbreyst síðustu 20 ár. Á þessari stundu eru 16% íslenskra foreldra á stór-Reykjavíkursvæðinu af erlendu bergi brotin. Tilgangur þessarar ritgerðar er að …
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Erfolgsfaktor Bildung 4.0
… experience every year. Everyone must complete compulsory schooling by the age of 18 if they do not occupy a job or training place. At the end of compulsory schooling, young people enter the labour market, but their chances are poor without (school/vocational) qualifications. Many studies show …
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Essays in Economics of Institutions and Culture
… of increased educational attainment, induced by compulsory schooling reforms, on religiosity and superstitious beliefs. I find consistently negative effects of education on religiosity, superstitious beliefs, social religious acts (attending religious services) and solitary religious acts (the …
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The construction of alienated students and students at educational risk : a study of the justice and education discourses in Western Australia
… school achievers who are less likely to complete compulsory schooling. In the documents examined leaving school early was regularly discussed and linked to unemployment, poverty and criminal activity. This thesis presents an interpretation of the role these discourses have played in the …
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The dawn of idiocy: abnormality as the norm of human intelligence
… traces these ideas embedded in the formation of compulsory schooling, the school as social filter, a hyper-normative education system, and pedagogic-treatment for adherence to developmental and behavioral norms.
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School to work transition experience of Year 12 school leavers
… consequence of increased retention rates in post compulsory schooling, educational systems have attempted to expand their curricular offerings. The aims of this study were twofold. The first was to examine a process of transition from school to work and the second considered the implications for …
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THREE ESSAYS ON RETURNS TO EDUCATION, HEALTH AND THE SPATIAL WAGE CURVE IN TURKEY
… variations generated by the 1997 Eight-Year Compulsory Schooling Law and the accompanying middle- school class openings to estimate economic and health returns to education. The findings suggest that the reform and the intensity of the reform substantially increased the educational …
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Adolescent property offending and socialisation
… peak age of such offences with the last year of compulsory schooling. This fact is taken as the focus of three epidemiological analyses. These were: 1. A survey of child welfare records of adolescent property offences for Hamilton, N.Z., in 1971. 2. The collection of teacher ratings of behaviour …
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Essays On Health Economics
… to live longer. Like previous studies, we use compulsory schooling laws as instruments for education, However, we use better instruments and Panel Study of Income Dynamics data that include each respondent's date and cause of death. We find our compulsory schooling instruments are stronger …
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The development of social–emotional skills in pre-primary children: A comparison of parent, teacher and combined coaching programs
… social–emotional skills in their first year of compulsory schooling in Australia (the pre-primary year) within a low-risk, mainstream setting. This population was chosen due to limited studies focussing on the development of children’s social-emotional skills within this age band, risk status …
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Learning to belong: A study of the lived experience of homeless students in Western Australia
… of them make a serious effort to complete post-compulsory schooling. The study was qualitative, and was designed as an in-depth analysis of the experiences of five young people aged between 15 and 17, all attending the same school. Data collection consisted of two in-depth interviews with each …
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The nature and experiences of the dyslexia population in higher education : a case study
… of dyslexia recognition and support during compulsory schooling was seen in subsequent support use and outcomes. How students attributed outcomes at school was important for self-concept and motivation, although this was not always related to recognition of dyslexia or support. The …
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Three essays on human capital: investments, resilience, and spillovers
… by leveraging an extension to the minimum compulsory schooling. In a context of low state welfare provision I find that while the quantity of children has a null direct effect on the physical, mental, or cognitive health of parents in later life, the reform-induced increase in daughters’ …
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Essays in empirical microeconomics
… and an empirical application to returns to compulsory schooling in the United Kingdom. Chapter 3, written jointly with Esther Duflo and Michael Greenstone, examines the impact of a water and sanitation intervention in Orissa, India, on health outcomes, in particular the monthly incidence of …
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Young people, school exclusion and substance abuse
… their lives had changed over the final year of compulsory schooling.<br/>Results from this study found that there were high levels of engagement in substance using behaviours compared to young people within mainstream school. The most popular substances of ever use were cigarettes, alcohol, …
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The directions taken by young people on leaving compulsory education:a study in two Birmingham schools
… affecting working-class school-leavers' post-compulsory education transitions into post-sixteen education, training, employment and unemployment. It focuses on school-leavers choosing to enter the labour market, whether successfully or not and the influences affecting this choice. …
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Essays on migration
… is similar to other studies. However, using compulsory schooling law changes as an instrumental variable, the 2SLS estimator suggests that education increases migration distance but decreases the probability to migrate. To guide the analysis, this paper expands the basic migration model to …
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What did the national curriculum do for poetry? Pattern, prescription and contestation in the poetry selected for GCSE English Literature 1988-2018.
… examination for all pupils at the end of their compulsory schooling. In the statutory orders for English in the national curriculum and the new GCSE qualifications in English and English literature, the study of poetry was made mandatory. My object of enquiry is the poetry selected and …
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