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From:Australian Journal of Education (Vol. 57, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract School choice in China is characterized by the payment of substantial amounts of additional ("choice") fees by parents to the preferred school, and by the use of cultural, social and economic capital to...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 60, Issue 33)Byline: Katherine Mangan Northbrook, Ill. -- For one student, the difference was a financial-aid officer who took the time to draw him out about personal problems that were derailing his studies. For another, it was...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 59, Issue 34)Byline: Karin Fischer Stormy Almanza figured she'd graduate from Augustana College this spring without ever studying abroad. After cobbling together scholarships and loans to cover tuition at the small, private...
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From:Asian American Policy Review (Vol. 23) Peer-ReviewedAlmost sixty years after the 1954 landmark ruling of Brown v. Board of Education, which declared that separate but equal education was unconstitutional, American schools are still woefully unequal along ethnic, racial,...
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From:Childhood Education (Vol. 87, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBUILDING QUALITY IN SUMMER LEARNING PROGRAMS: Approaches and Recommendations. McLaughlin, B., & Pitcock, S. Baltimore: National Summer Learning Association, 2009. 38 pp. This report identifies characteristics of...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 58, Issue 40)Byline: Anthony P. Carnevale College education is becoming a passive participant in the reproduction of economic privilege. Taken one at time, postsecondary institutions are fountains of opportunity; taken together,...
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From:Human Rights (Vol. 38, Issue 4)Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments. Compulsory school attendance laws and the great expenditures for education both demonstrate our recognition of the importance of...
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From:Diverse Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 22, Issue 22)The volume of the bickering on Capitol Hill kicked up considerably as Congress prepared to cut out of Washington for the holidays. Our legislators could not seem to agree on anything when it came to Iraq, bird flue or...
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From:Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (Vol. 41, Issue 1)ABSTRACT Education exists as a fundamental right recognized by countries worldwide. Overwhelming support for the right to education is reflected in international human rights instruments, including the International...
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From:Diverse Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 23, Issue 26)With only 9 percent of low-income students completing college by age 24, compared to 75 percent of students from high-income families, a coalition of higher education advocates have launched a new multimedia campaign to...
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From:American Educational History Journal (Vol. 35, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedSince the end of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War, public education has been high on the national agenda. The nation's need for human capital and the need to provide equality of educational opportunity to...
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From:Fordham Urban Law Journal (Vol. 42, Issue 3)A response to Robert Garda, Searching for Equity Amid a System of Schools: The View from New Orleans, 42 Fordham Urb. L.J. 613 (2015). Introduction Professor Garda tells a fascinating story about the rise of...
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From:District Administration (Vol. 38, Issue 6)Special education is an important issue for every school district. Educators have faced two main problems in this area: the challenge of educating students with a wide range of disabilities, and figuring out how to pay...
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From:Social Policy Journal of New ZealandPeer-ReviewedAbstract A causal relationship between aspirations and achievement is widely recognised by the sociology of education. Bourdieu, for example, has argued that students "internalise the odds" of their social group and...
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From:Diverse Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 33, Issue 23)PRINCETON, N.J If you mention the name ETS--or Educational Testing Service--you're bound to come across an anxious high school or college student who will recount a horror story about their test-taking experience....
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From:Journal of School Leadership (Vol. 27, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis study examines how 57 aspiring school leaders understand what it means to lead for social justice in K-12 schools. Grounded theory was employed for this qualitative study. The data collection included 855 audio and...
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From:Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge (Vol. 10, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn the context of the Bologna Process of neoliberal European university reform, the German authorities have recently promoted an "Excellence Initiative" which has defined as one key objective the promotion of area...
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From:Educational Foundations (Vol. 24, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Schools are social institutions that mirror the larger society. In the United States (U.S.), a compulsory public school system was developed to address the needs of industry, speaking to the direct...
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From:Multicultural Education (Vol. 18, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed[The United Nations'] committee remains concerned about the persistence of widespread societal discrimination against foreigners [in South Korea], including migrant workers and children born from inter-ethnic unions, in...
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From:Harvard International Review (Vol. 30, Issue 3)For international aid and development agencies working in the social sectors, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) shape their flagship programs and budgets, notably in education and health. Adopted by the UN General...