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Education, Poverty and Child Labour [PDF]

The purpose of the paper is to investigate the effects of poverty and educational policies on school attendance, child labour and growth. We consider an OLG model, with parental educational choices. It is assumed there is a trade off between child labour
Alice FABRE, Emmanuelle AUGERAUD-VERON
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The governance of public schooling in South Africa and the middle class: social solidarity for the public good versus class interest [PDF]

, 2016
The article examines the unintended class differentiated and inequality reproducing effects of post-apartheid educational legislation. It does so through an analysis of government policies informing school governance and key policy makers in the ...
Sayed, Yusuf
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Traumatic Microhemorrhages Are Not Synonymous With Axonal Injury

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Diffuse axonal injury (DAI) is caused by acceleration‐deceleration forces during trauma that shear white matter tracts. Susceptibility‐weighted MRI (SWI) identifies microbleeds that are considered the radiologic hallmark of DAI and are used in clinical prognostication.
Karinn Sytsma, Rhonda Mittenzwei, Heather Maioli, Amanda Kirkland, C. Dirk Keene, Ramon Diaz‐Arrastia, Christine Mac Donald, Chiara Maffei, Brian L. Edlow, Amber L. Nolan   +9 more
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Explorer la distance culturelle entre les acquis de première socialisation des élèves inuit et le programme de scolarisation formel au Nunavik

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Students in Nunavik are currently educated under a trilingual and bicultural education system. In this context, their educational trajectory is marked by breaking points that affect their perseverance and academic success.
Glorya Pellerin, Gisèle Maheux, Sarah Angiyou, Malaya Tukalak, Élyane Lizotte   +4 more
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The placement of secondary school students with Statements of special educational needs in the more diversified system of English secondary schooling

, 2015
B. Norwich, A. Black
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Private Supplementary Tutoring in Turkey Recent Evidence on Its Various Aspects [PDF]

This paper first describes the educational system in Turkey and the two national examinations for advancing upper levels of schooling which give raise to the demand for private tutoring called “dersane” in Turkish.
Aysit Tansel, Fatma Bircan
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Strengthening Incentives for Student Effort and Learning: Michigan’s Merit Award Program? [PDF]

, 2001
[Excerpt] One of the primary reasons American students learn a good deal less during secondary school than students in other industrialized nations is that they devote less time and intellectual energy to the task.1 Accountability systems designed to get
Bishop, John H.
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Value of MRI Outcomes for Preventive and Early‐Stage Trials in Spinocerebellar Ataxias 1 and 3

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To examine the value of MRI outcomes as endpoints for preventive and early‐stage trials of two polyglutamine spinocerebellar ataxias (SCAs). Methods A cohort of 100 participants (23 SCA1, 63 SCA3, median Scale for the Assessment and Rating of Ataxia (SARA) score = 5, 42% preataxic, and 14 gene‐negative controls) was scanned at 3T up ...
Thiago J. R. Rezende, Emilien Petit, Young Woo Park, Sophie Tezenas du Montcel, James M. Joers, Jonathan M. DuBois, H. Moore Arnold, Michal Povazan, Ipek Özdemir, Guita Banan, Romain Valabregue, Philipp Ehses, Jennifer Faber, Chiadi U. Onyike, Peter B. Barker, Jeremy D. Schmahmann, Eva‐Maria Ratai, Sub H. Subramony, Thomas H. Mareci, Khalaf O. Bushara, Henry Paulson, Thomas Klockgether, Alexandra Durr, Tetsuo Ashizawa, Christophe Lenglet, Gülin Öz, READISCA Investigators   +26 more
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Why are In-grade Retention Rates so High in Macao?

Current Issues in Education, 2013
This paper seeks to address why in-grade retention rates are so high in Macao by examining the operation of its education system.  To this end, I shall draw on data from a qualitative research project on educational inequality in Macao, referring ...
Yi-Lee Wong
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The Long Term Impacts of Compulsory Schooling: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in School Leaving Dates [PDF]

This paper investigates a unique feature of the English educational system to estimate the causal effect of compulsory schooling on labour market outcomes.
Emilia Del Bono, Fernando Galindo-Rueda
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