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This paper claims that the roots and remedies of health inequalities reflected in the major academic debates that culminated with full force towards the turn of the last century, have done little to usher in a radical change in public health discourse. There has been a hesitation to understand...
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The present work builds on the affirmed desire of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) to be judged on both its scientific rigor and the policy implications that the Commission’s work will generate. It contributes to the general discussion on the social determinants of...
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This paper reports on the human aspect of a two-and-half-year collaboration between mathematics teachers of the City University of New York (CUNY), and grassroots organizers in rural Tamil Nadu. Reporting on student success in Calculus classrooms in New York at the International Conference to...
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In this paper an overview of India’s technological trajectory with a view to understanding the nuances of India’s technological capability and the role it has played in the process of India’s economic progress. [WP No. 227].
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focus on early learning, for every Indian child. [Ministry of Women and Child Development]. URL:[http://wcd.nic.in/]. [Send …
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Learning profiles that track changes in student skills per year of schooling often find shockingly low learning gains … instruction with no progress on basics. Shallow learning profiles are in part the result of curricular paces moving much faster … than the pace of learning. To demonstrate the consequences of a gap between the curriculum and student mastery, a simple …
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This study tried to bring together the experiences of different approaches to incentives followed by six NGOs in the states of Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. Issues dealing with incentives and the hidden cost of education have been explored with a view to gaining...
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children between ages of 2 and 6 years. It paves the way for effective learning. The child is prepared in all respects to …
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with the right government policies: learning, working, staying healthy, forming families, and exercising citizenship …
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the developing world, limiting development impact. Thus we should measure and promote learning not schooling. Conditional … test results, and teacher pay based on attendance and performance may help. But learning outcomes are primarily affected by … the broader environment in which students live, suggesting a learning agenda that stretches far beyond education …
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