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Seasonal pollen allergies affect approximately 1 in 5 school age children. Clinical research has established that these allergies result in large and consistent decrements in cognitive functioning, problem solving ability and speed, focus and energy. However, the impact of seasonal allergies on...
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paper provides a review of theoretical studies linking university education and developed sense of adaptability and … performance in a business oriented career. The study starts with a review of field literature connecting education to career … development and work insertion, details the role of education on developing workplace abilities and aptitudes and contextualizes …
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academic performance of native students who remain. To address this question, we analyze education data from North Carolina, a …
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The federal government's Race to the Top competition has promoted the adoption of test-based performance measures as a component of teacher evaluations throughout many states, but the validity of these measures has been controversial among researchers and widely contested by teachers' unions. A...
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We consider a model in which educational investments entail productivity gains, signaling power, and social returns. The latter depend on the relative position the agent occupies in one of three di¤erent dimensions: (i) his innate characteristics, (ii) his level of schooling, and (iii) his...
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Education is the basic requirement and the ‘Fundamental Right’ of the citizens of a nation. Elementary Education system … all children under coverage of Elementary Education, which sadly has not been possible yet in India. Policy makers have … responded through various programs – two latest examples of which are the Sarva Shikhsa Mission and the Right to Education Bill …
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This paper reviews the literature on the relationship of economic growth to the education levels of the labor force …
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A study was conducted to see whether peer effects could be observed among undergraduates at Williams College, an elite four-year liberal arts school. Specifically, the study explored whether students in the bottom third of their class, with average SAT's of about 1300, would perform better in...
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Education is the basic requirement and the ‘Fundamental Right' of the citizens of a nation. While Higher Education is … important, the Elementary Education system serves as the base over which the Super-structure of the whole education system is … qualitative aspects of School Education System in India in recent years. It is observed that complete Literacy has not been …
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pre-university education. Therefore, the synthetic approach to educational problems in Romania, studied in terms of the … decentralization of education. This theme is a true significant of the stage and of the the changing potential of the management … constant institutional reorganization of pre-university education show the presence of an active interest in this matter …
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