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The following report is the first of a two-stage video study to examine teaching practices and activities in Indonesian classrooms. The first stage is linked to results of the 2007 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) where 100 of the 150 classes that participated in the...
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education policy literature. This study seeks to identify the good policies and practices that lead students in some municipal …
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Educators and education policy makers are concerned with creating the best possible learning environment for students … subject of policy debates in many parts of the world. Should teachers be paid more? Can students be rewarded for good test … results? Do schools need more supplies and better infrastructure? Should parents have access to better information about the …
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The study reviews the forces driving Mexico's inequality, in particular, the recent expansion in earnings inequality, emphasizing the roles of education on: establishing an analytical framework, that allows interaction between education, and labor market; examining the evolution of earnings...
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The study reviews the forces driving Mexico's inequality, in particular, the recent expansion in earnings inequality, emphasizing the roles of education on: establishing an analytical framework, that allows interaction between education, and labor market; examining the evolution of earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012558860
can play. Not only do they want to use technology to directly aid learning, but they also want to ensure that students in …. Researchers suggested this could be because teachers and students mainly used the computers to learn how to use computers, instead …
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Nations millennium development goals. The work includes supporting projects that explore how best to support children staying … way of getting children to stay in school. But it also found that children who were offered scholarships did not do …
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In the last 15 years, Indonesia has introduced a comprehensive package of education reforms designed to expand access and improve quality. A key component of the reform process has been the devolution of responsibility for basic education services to local governments and schools. The ability of...
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families didn't receive the money. It may be that teachers need better training to address the needs of low-income students, or … performance, to see whether this incentive encourages students (and their parents) to pay more attention to learning. As part of … this, researchers would have to consider what support low-income households might need to monitor and assist their children …
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Existing research has found an inverse relationship between urban density and the degree of income inequality within … metropolitan areas, suggesting that, as cities spread out, they become increasingly segregated by income. This paper examines this …. The findings indicate that income inequality - defined by the variance of the log household income distribution - does …
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