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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"educational inequality"”.
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The Roots of Educational Inequality: Germantown High School, 1907-2011
The Roots of Educational Inequality: Germantown High School, 1907 - 2011 Erika M. Kitzmiller Dr. Michael B. Katz (History) Dr. Stanton E.F. Wortham (Education) This study, The Roots of Educational Inequality, examines the political, economic, and social factors that led to the transformation of …
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Families and the State: Relations of dependency, responsibility and educational inequality in Singapore
… there is growing recognition of persistent educational and income inequalities in Singapore, and how Singaporean meritocracy – a cornerstone of Singaporean education policy – flattens social disadvantage, rendering poverty invisible. Currently, there is little research on how disadvantaged …
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Private tutoring and its impact on students' academic achievement, formal schooling, and educational inequality in Korea
… tutoring is still mixed. Using the Korean Educational Longitudinal Survey, this dissertation explores the causal impact of private tutoring in Korea on three outcomes: students' academic achievement, the quality of the learning environment in formal schooling, and educational inequality. …
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Beyond the scores: A critical realist study of the causes of regional educational inequality in Kazakhstan
… stakeholder perceptions and the extent to which educational policies address regional inequalities. Grounded in critical theory (Bourdieu, 1986; Gibson, 1986) and Bronfenbrenner’s (1978) Ecological model, it employs Critical realist thematic analysis (Fryer, 2022) to analyse interviews and focus …
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Brougham, Hegel, and American educational reformers: European middle class ideology and its relationship to American educational reform, 1826 to 1883
… determine the ideological foundation of American educational reform from the beginning of the Common School Era to the dawn of the Progressive Era. By understanding the relationship that existed between certain European middle class social theorists and American middle class educational reformers …
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Exploring inequalities in English language education in China: A comparative case study of English-major students from a sociological perspective
… social mobility in a society, and thus educational equality is a concern for many societies. Considering the compulsory status of English from basic to higher education in China and its symbolic meaning in Chinese society, this study regards it as a window to explore educational …
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Diseguali su quale base? Lo svantaggio scolastico dei figli di immigrati in Europa
The aim of this research is to analyse the educational gap between native and foreign students in Europe. In last decades, because of the increasing number of immigrants, the sociological literature on the ethnic stratification in education has considerably grown. However, several aspects of the …
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Housing Patterns, Academic Performance and School Choice: An Inquiry into the Relocation Experiences of African-American Families
<p>This qualitative inquiry explored the educational relocation experiences of AfricanAmerican families residing in predominately-White and northern Gwinnett County, Georgia, who relocated to pursue improved educational opportunities for their children. For poor families or African- American …
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The complexity of disadvantage : examining the effects of moral ecology on adolescent educational outcomes.
Popular methods of addressing educational inequality emphasize structural barriers to educational attainment such as access and affordability, or individual barriers that highlight a lack of character traits such as grit and resilience among traditionally disadvantaged students. I argue that these …
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Essays in economics of education: free primary education, birth order and human capital development in Lesotho
Given the low levels of educational standards in the developing world, the World Education Forum adopted the Dakar Framework for Action (DFA) in 2000, calling for quality 'Education for All' children of school-going age. Heeding to this call, many sub-Saharan African countries instituted Free …
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Inequality and Civic Participation in the Rocky Mountain West: Missoula, MT
… study considers the impact of community-level inequality of income and education on the ways individuals participate in local government and community development activities. It adapts the standard identity-augmented utility model to demonstrate that, given the choice to participate or not to …
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Inequality and Civic Participation in the Rocky Mountain West: Missoula, MT
… study considers the impact of community-level inequality of income and education on the ways individuals participate in local government and community development activities. It adapts the standard identity-augmented utility model to demonstrate that, given the choice to participate or not to …
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Breaking Through: How do Adult Learners negotiate Class prior to, during and after Higher Education?
… direct correlation between class background and educational inequality. While the study involves eight participants and is relatively small so cannot be applied universally to working class experience, nonetheless the findings and analyses demonstrate common themes which highlight the need for …
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Education Through Social and Cultural Transmission
… students of all ages struggle to find equal educational opportunities due to structural social, economic and cultural barriers. Educational inequality in American urban areas remains as a consequence of socioeconomic constructed structural barriers and strong social and cultural …
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Transgender in College: Engaging Marginalized Collegiate Students
<p>In an educational structure not built for marginalized students how can inequality be counteracted within the system itself? Specifically, what are the best practices to engage and empower transgender students within student involvement and leadership on college campuses, specifically through …
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The Mis-Education of the Negro Continues: The Connection Between the Beginning Reading Instruction Delivered to Three High -Performing Black Girls and the Instruction Delivered Within Schools Designed to Colonize
… experiences, within the longstanding history of educational inequality in the focal community and the colonial origins of Black schooling in the United States, it is evident that the educational neglect they experienced was not random, by accident, or the result of an overburdened, benevolent …
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Understanding the Influence of the Father Roles in Contemporary Chinese Two-Parent Families on Young People’s Educational Experiences
… to provide emotional support and be involved in educational activities. However, the reconstruction of the father role is not a homogeneous process, influenced by social class, gender norms, and policy orientations. This study explores the construction and practice of father roles in contemporary …
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Unpacking the links between household income and child academic achievement in Australia through the development of the PICAA microsimulation systems model
… the key links between household income and educational outcomes at a system level, through the development of the Parental Income and Child Academic Achievement (PICAA) microsimulation model. This model was developed with the goal of being used by policymakers to test the magnitude of …
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Brincamos El Charco Y Ahora Que: Historicizing Puerto Rican Education in Chicago, 1967--1977
… as a historical and cultural analysis of the educational experiences of Puerto Ricans in Chicago following the Division Street Riot of 1966 till 1977, chronicling the ways in which the racialization of Puerto Ricans in Chicago has resulted in schooling inequalities, forcing community response …
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