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Do Credit Constraints Matter More for College Dropout Entrepreneurs? [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008
The purpose of this study is to shed some light on the relationship between the educational background of entrepreneurs and their ability to get financial resources from banks. Start-ups and their potential lenders are faced with severe problems of asymmetric information regarding the evaluation of entrepreneurial capabilities due to the lack of a ...
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Building a Learning Agenda Around Disconnected Youth [PDF]

, 2010
In December 2007, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation gave MDRC a grant to conduct reconnaissance on promising strategies to reengage disconnected young people and improve their long-term outcomes.
Dan Bloom, Rob Ivry, Saskia Levy Thompson   +2 more
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Bridging home, school and community to address educational inequality: Supporting educational trajectories through community bridge work

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the role of community stakeholders in supporting the educational trajectories of students experiencing socio‐economic disadvantage in the Irish context. Building on international and national policy debates, the study examines how community‐based organisations, statutory services and outreach initiatives work alongside ...
Aoife Joy Keogh, Deirdre McGillicuddy
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A novel method using the level of mobility to predict mortality in patients admitted for decompensated cirrhosis: A prospective study

, 2022
Liver Transplantation, EarlyView.
Andrew J. Groff, Marina Serper, Sunny Y. Tao, Pamela M. Bloomer, Michael A. Dunn, Andres Duarte‐Rojo   +5 more
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Educational Attainment and Cardiovascular Disease Symptoms among Americans Entering Mid-Adulthood

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Although the education-health gradient is well documented, relatively little is known about its application to cardiovascular disease (CVD), the leading cause of mortality in the United States.
Anna Zajacova, Samuel Fishman, Elizabeth M. Lawrence   +2 more
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The GED [PDF]

The General Educational Development (GED) credential is issued on the basis of an eight hour subject-based test. The test claims to establish equivalence between dropouts and traditional high school graduates, opening the door to college and positions in
Heckman, James J., Humphries, John Eric, Mader, Nicholas S.   +2 more
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Student and School Predictors of High School Graduation in California [PDF]

, 2007
Based on surveys of tenth-grade students, teachers, principals, and parents, identifies alterable factors that predict high school graduation, including the student's ninth-grade performance, engagement in sports, and the school's academic ...
Brenda Arellano, Russell W. Rumberger
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‘Sometimes, I would look at my books and cry because I felt like I was left behind’: Understanding the learning of Indigenous girls during the COVID‐19 pandemic in the districts of Chongwe and Solwezi in Zambia

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Grounded in principles of epistemic justice, this article examines the educational impacts of Zambia's COVID‐19 school closures on Indigenous girls in two districts and highlights community‐led pathways for resilience. National responses prioritised broadcast and digital delivery but presupposed access to electricity, digital devices and ...
Marcellus Forh Mbah, Leigh Jarvis, Ane Turner Johnson, Chidi Ezegwu, Priscillah Nsama, Austine Nakanga   +5 more
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Physical Activity Interventions in Children with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials

Pediatric Health, Medicine and Therapeutics, 2022
Maura D Iversen,1– 3 Marie Andre,2 Johan von Heideken2 1College of Health Professions, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT, USA; 2Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; 3Section of Clinical Sciences ...
Iversen MD, Andre M, von Heideken J
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Alternative Pathways to High School Graduation: An International Comparison [PDF]

, 2008
Evaluates alternative pathways to high school graduation -- such as school- or employment-based technical or vocational training programs -- in different countries, in terms of content, graduation requirements, inclusiveness, and ...
Stephen Lamb
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