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Perverse Consequences of Well Intentioned Regulation: Evidence from India's Child Labor Ban
Bansode, Prashant - eSocialSciences - 2013
While bans against child labor are a common policy tool, there is very little empirical evidence validating their … effectiveness. In this paper, it is examined that the consequences of India’s landmark legislation against child labor, the Child … Labor (Prohibition and Regulation) Act of 1986. Using data from employment surveys conducted before and after the ban, and …
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Literature or Technical Manuals: Who Should Be Reading What, Where, and Why
Stotsky, Sandra - In: Nonpartisan Education Review 9 (2013) 1, pp. 1-12
Over 45 states adopted Common Core’s ELA standards in 2010, in some cases before they were even written. Only in 2012 did some discussion about their implications take place in the media. Discussion has centered mostly on what English teachers are doing to their classroom curriculum to address...
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Gang Membership Risk Factors for Eighth-Grade Students
James Martinez, Jeremy Tost, Larry Hilgert; … - In: Nonpartisan Education Review 9 (2013) 1, pp. 1-31
The purpose of this study is to identify the major risk factor domains for gang membership and the relationships of these risk factors to eighth grade students. The domains of risk factors include: individual characteristics, peer group influences, family conditions, school experiences and the...
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Private Data -- The Real Story: A Huge Problem with Education Research
Milgram, R. James - In: Nonpartisan Education Review 8 (2012) 5, pp. 1-8
widespread misconception among education researchers. When we found the identities of the schools by other means, serious …
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The Rot Spreads Worldwide: The OECD - Taken In and Taking Sides
Phelps, Richard P - In: Nonpartisan Education Review 9 (2013) 2, pp. 1-27
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Letter to sponsors
Stotsky, Sandra - In: Nonpartisan Education Review 9 (2013) 4, pp. 1-3
I feel that I owe you, as well as all the individuals and organizations that recommended me for Common Core’s Validation Committee, an explanation for why I could not sign off on the final version of the Common Core State Standards. I did not sign off because I could not “validate” the...
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All Teachers Can Learn Mathematics; All Students Can Learn Mathematics From Teachers Who Know Mathematics
Dancis, Jerome - In: Nonpartisan Education Review 8 (2012) 1, pp. 1-1
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Quality versus Quantity
Stamm, Daniel - In: Nonpartisan Education Review 7 (2011) 6, pp. 1-8
This essay compares American and Asian education and illustrates how quantity is chosen over quality in the U.S. in the … areas of teacher training, research in education, curriculum and textbook design, and the level of education given highest …
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Modern Metrology and the Revision of our Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing — An Open Letter to American Parents
Oliphant, Robert - In: Nonpartisan Education Review 7 (2011) 4, pp. 1-4
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Educators Cheating on Tests Is Nothing New; Doing Something About It Would Be
Phelps, Richard P. - In: Nonpartisan Education Review 7 (2011) 5, pp. 1-3
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