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Education constitutes one of the fundamental axes of the Cuban socialist development project and one of the means of … achieving the goal of equality. In that country, the educational system has the purpose to call into question the capitalist … its educational system. However, the huge changes occuring in Cuba since the 1990's involved educational transformations …
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This study estimates the net impacts and private and social benefits and costs of nine workforce development programs … administered in Washington State. Five of the programs serve job-ready adults: Community and Technical College Job Training … who encountered the workforce development programs were statistically matched to individuals who did not. Administrative …
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in student outcomes, as measured by the Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP). The State makes available the …
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This paper analyzes the impact of longer school schedules on children's 2nd grade reading comprehension skills in Chile. In a setting where families choose schools, we identify the causal effect of longer schedules with instrumental variables, using the local availability of full-day schools as...
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This paper analyzes the impact of longer school days on student achievement in Colombia. To identify the impact of longer schools days, this study exploits plausibly exogenous within school variation in the length of the school day. Using test score data from 5th and 9th graders in 2002, 2005,...
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This paper analyzes the impact of longer school days on student achievement in Colombia. To identify the impact of longer schools days, this study exploits plausibly exogenous within school variation in the length of the school day. Using test score data from 5th and 9th graders in 2002, 2005,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457677
This paper analyzes the impact of longer school schedules on children's 2nd grade reading comprehension skills in Chile. In a setting where families choose schools, we identify the causal effect of longer schedules with instrumental variables, using the local availability of full-day schools as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011571855
Education is the basic requirement and the ‘Fundamental Right’ of the citizens of a nation. Elementary Education system … also serves as the base over which the super-structure of the whole knowledge system is built up. This calls for bringing …. The former have been hailed as a successful instrument to remove all ills plaguing the elementary education system in …
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This paper analyzes the impact of longer school schedules on children's 2nd grade reading comprehension skills in Chile. In a setting where families choose schools, we identify the causal effect of longer schedules with instrumental variables, using the local availability of full-day schools as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012980339
This study describes the design and the ex-ante evaluation of an Intercultural Bilingual Education1 Program in the Amazon Region in Peru. The target beneficiaries are the non-Spanish-speaking children from three Amazon ethnic communities: the Awarunas, Ashaninkas and Shipibos-Conibos. They are a...
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