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Denying the Dream: How the Proposed Changes to the US Naturalization Test Would Prevent Immigrants from Becoming Citizens [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
This report details how (as of September 2003) efforts by the US Citizenship and Immigration Service (former Immigration and Naturalization Service) to redesign the citizenship test could threaten the aspirations of many immigrants, particularly Latinos ...
Leslie da Mota
core  

School readiness and the good level of development: Policy constructions in English early childhood education

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper critically analyses how school readiness has been historically and discursively constructed in Early Childhood Education (ECE) policy in England over the past four decades. Using Bacchi's ‘What's the Problem Represented to be?’ framework and Foucauldian concepts of governmentality, the paper explores how school readiness has shifted
Louise Kay
wiley   +1 more source

How far behind in number are socioeconomically disadvantaged pupils when they start school in England?

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines the gap in number skills between socioeconomically disadvantaged and non‐disadvantaged children in the first year of compulsory schooling in England. Past research mostly relies on statutory assessment data collected towards the end of the first year of school and does not show the attainment gap associated with ...
Martin Culliney, Joanne Robson
wiley   +1 more source

Bridging home, school and community to address educational inequality: Supporting educational trajectories through community bridge work

open access: yesBritish 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
wiley   +1 more source

Comprehensive health literacy in Japan is lower than in Europe: a validated Japanese-language assessment of health literacy [PDF]

open access: gold, 2015
Kazuhiro Nakayama   +6 more
openalex   +1 more source

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