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Educational Policy: Egalitarian or Elitist? [PDF]
Economics & Politics, 2003 This paper uses a general‐equilibrium model of production and predation to explain observed differences across countries in educational policies. This model predicts, in accord with the facts, that countries in which the government is willing and able to enforce a collective choice to allocate resources to guarding against predators choose to have ...
Kim, Minseong, Grossman, Herschel
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International Journal of Social Sciences & Educational Studies, 2023 This paper examined teaching and learning experiences of both teachers and students from academic camps. The concept of academic camps in the Tanzanian education context is new but well accepted by stakeholders at the grassroots level while the top ...
Mary Joseph Silo, Paul Loisulie
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The influence of STEM definitions for research on women’s college attainment
International Journal of STEM Education, 2018 Background Prior research has inconsistently operationalized Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields, presenting an interpretation challenge.
Catherine A. Manly +2 more
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Disparities in access to US quantum information education [PDF]
Phys Rev Phys Educ Res 20, 010131 (2024), 2023 Driven in large part by the National Quantum Initiative Act of 2018, quantum information science (QIS) coursework and degree programs are rapidly spreading across US institutions. Yet prior work suggests that access to quantum workforce education is unequally distributed, disproportionately benefiting students at private research-focused institutions ...
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BMC Public Health, 2016 Background Every year in Europe 60,000 women develop cervical cancer and 30,000 die from the disease. HPV vaccines are currently believed to constitute an important element of cervical cancer control strategy.
Christina Karamanidou, Kostas Dimopoulos
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Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2015 We examine whether dual enrolled students display greater levels of college readiness than nonparticipants. Advocates assert that dual enrollment improves students’ college readiness, but despite these assertions, few researchers have evaluated this ...
Brian P. An, Jason L. Taylor
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The End of Education Policy? [PDF]
Soundings, 2023 Education is no longer the responsibility of education policy as public policy. Instead the provision of and access to school places has been relocated away from the desk of publicly elected representatives and appointed accredited professionals, to a range of private sites controlled by oligarchic club interests engaged in market exchanges: first ...
Gunter, Helen M., Courtney, Steven J.
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The International Monetary Funds intervention in education systems and its impact on childrens chances of completing school [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Enabling children to acquire an education is one of the most effective means to reduce inequality, poverty, and ill-health globally. While in normal times a government controls its educational policies, during times of macroeconomic instability, that control may shift to supporting international organizations, such as the International Monetary Fund ...
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Education Policy and Crime [PDF]
, 2010 This paper discusses the relationship between education and crime from an economic perspective, developing a human capital-based model that sheds light on key ways in which early childhood programs and policies that encourage schooling may affect both juvenile and adult crime. The paper first discusses evidence on the effects of educational attainment,
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Education policy and the heritability of educational attainment [PDF]
Nature, 1985 Many workers assume that genetically determined differences in intellectual ability will be influenced little by changes in educational policy or other environmental interventions. Others, however, have suggested that increasing equality of educational opportunity will lead to an increase in the heritability of educational attainment. The resolution of
Jon Martin Sundet +7 more
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