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Tracking, School Mobility, and Educational Inequality

Voprosy Obrazovaniya / Educational Studies Moscow, 2019
School tracking is defined as the placement of students into different school types, hierarchically structured by performance. In the majority of OECD countries, tracking takes place at the age of 15 or 16. In Russia, similarly, students are sorted into “academic” (high school) and “non-academic” (vocational training) tracks after Grade 9, at the age ...
Valeria Ivaniushina, Elena Williams
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Efficacy of Intermittent Theta‐Burst Stimulation for Prolonged Disorders of Consciousness: A Prospective, Randomized, Controlled Trial

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Emerging evidence suggests that low‐frequency neural oscillations are dynamically regulated by consciousness levels, with the recovery of low cortical activity potentially serving as a neurophysiological substrate for conscious emergence. Targeted enhancement of these low‐frequency rhythms in patients with disorders of consciousness
Chuan Xu, Jun Hu, Qianqian Wu, Min Wu, Yamei Yu, Hangcheng Li, Jian Gao, Jingqi Li, Nai Ding, Jie Yu, Benyan Luo   +10 more
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Capturing Transformative Change in Education: The Challenge of Tracking Progress towards SDG Target

Policy and Practice: A Development Education Review, 2016
Target 4.7 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aims to ‘ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development’ (UN General Assembly, 2015: 17), thereby calling for transformative educational change ...
Susan Gallwey
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Prevalence and genetic basis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis resistance to pretomanid in China

Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials
Background Pretomanid is a key component of new regimens for the treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) which are being rolled out globally. However, there is limited information on the prevalence of pre-existing resistance to the drug. Methods To
Bing Zhao, Huiwen Zheng, Juliano Timm, Zexuan Song, Shaojun Pei, Ruida Xing, Yajie Guo, Ling Ma, Feina Li, Qing Li, Yan Li, Lin Huang, Chong Teng, Ni Wang, Aastha Gupta, Sandeep Juneja, Fei Huang, Yanlin Zhao, Xichao Ou   +18 more
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Stratification with Honors: A Case Study of the “High” Track within United States Higher Education

Social Sciences, 2018
At present, U.S. postsecondary sorting is best evidenced by an increasingly stratified system of higher education. However, very little attention is paid to even deeper levels of stratification within colleges and universities where academic tracking and
Amy E. Stich
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CSF Monoamine Metabolites and Cognitive Trajectory in Early Parkinson's Disease

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Imaging and postmortem studies indicate that abnormalities in monoaminergic neurotransmission contribute to cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease (PD). However, it remains uncertain if cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) monoamine metabolites can serve as biomarkers of cognitive decline in early PD.
Jing‐Yu Shao, Rong Li, Yu‐Xiang Jiao, Kai Ma, Hong‐Qi Yang, Zheng‐Yu Sun, Jie‐Wen Zhang, Shuai Chen   +7 more
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Immigrants, schooling and background. Cross-country evidence from PISA 2006 [PDF]

Using data from PISA 2006, we examine the performance of immigrant students in different international educational environments. Our results show smaller immigrant gaps – differences in scores with respect to natives - where educational systems are more ...
Davide Ferrari, Giulia Pirani, Marina Murat, Patrizio Frederic   +3 more
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Eye tracking in digital pathology: A comprehensive literature review

Journal of Pathology Informatics
Eye tracking has been used for decades in attempt to understand the cognitive processes of individuals. From memory access to problem-solving to decision-making, such insight has the potential to improve workflows and the education of students to become ...
Alana Lopes, Aaron D. Ward, Matthew Cecchini   +2 more
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Why Children of College Graduates Outperform their Schoolmates: A Study of Cousins and Adoptees [PDF]

Massive cross-sectional evidence exists indicating that children of more educated parents outperform their schoolmates. However, evidence for causal interpretation of this association is weak.
Haegeland, Torbjørn, Kirkebøen, Lars Johannessen, Raaum, Oddbjørn, Salvanes, Kjell G.   +3 more
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The national challenge: raising standards, supporting schools - gifted and talented pilot programme. User guide and element 1: leading and managing improvement for gifted and talented education (National Strategies: national challenge) [PDF]

, 2009
"A booklet to help schools involved in the National Challenge Gifted and Talented (G&T) pilot to support leadership and management of improvement for gifted and talented education. This booklet contains Element 1 of a set of three.

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