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Standard Worldwide American Dictionary English (SWADE)versus Polyglot America: A Survival Kit for Personal-Growth Learners
Oliphant, Robert - In: Nonpartisan Education Review 7 (2011) 1, pp. 1-13
Standard Worldwide American Dictionary English versus Polyglot America (SWADE v PA), is a wake-up call for Americans, especially those who noticed that many Egyptian protesters during the “Arab Spring” spoke clearer American English than some of our own college graduates. The book also...
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Every Child Matters? An Evaluation of "Special Educational Needs" Programmes in England
Keslair, Francois; Maurin, Eric; McNally, Sandra - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
The need for education to help every child rather than focus on average attainment has become a more central part of … combined direct and indirect (spillover) effects. Thus, the analysis suggests that a key way that English education purports to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009359857
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Does education really matter for environmental quality?
Kinda, Romuald S - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 4, pp. 2612-2626
This paper investigates the impact of education on the growth of carbon dioxide emissions per capita over the period … 1970-2004 in 85 countries. Using panel data and applying GMM-System estimations, our results suggest that education has no … sub-sample, education does matter for air pollution growth in the developed countries. More interestingly, when …
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Sina English and American Dictionaries: A New Partnership
Oliphant, Robert - In: Nonpartisan Education Review 6 (2010) 6, pp. 1-2
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008675739
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GI Bill Students and Their Equal Opportunity to Fail
Oliphant, Robert - In: Nonpartisan Education Review 6 (2010) 5, pp. 1-3
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008675740
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Akin to my teacher: Does caste, religious or gender distance between student and teacher matter? Some evidence from India
Rawal, Shenila; Kingdon, Geeta - Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of … - 2010
This paper uses a unique data set from 5028 primary school children in rural India to examine whether the demographic interactions between students and teachers influence student outcomes and whether social distance between student and teacher exacerbates gender, caste and religious gaps in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008679937
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Does Education Really Matter for Environmental Quality?
KINDA, Somlanare Romuald - Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement … - 2010
This paper investigates the impact of education on the growth of carbon dioxide emissions per capita over the period … 1970-2004 in 85 countries. Using panel data and applying GMM-System estimations, our results suggest that education has no … sub-sample, education does matter for air pollution growth in the developed countries. More interestingly, when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008682176
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For-Profit Colleges and American Salesmanship — A Unique Opportunity
Oliphant, Robert - In: Nonpartisan Education Review 6 (2010) 7, pp. 1-2
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008684487
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Education, Aspirations and Life Satisfaction
Ferrante, Francesco - Dipartimento di Economia e Giurisprudenzia, Facoltà di … - 2009
achievement. I test the model’s predictions on Italian data and find preliminary support for the idea that education and access to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008690455
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Early schooling and later outcomes : Evidence from pre-school extension in France
Christelle, Dumas; Arnaud, Lefranc - Théorie Économique, Modélisation, Application … - 2010
Over the 1960s and 1970s, France undertook a large-scale expansion of preschool enrollment. As a result, during this period, the enrollment rate of 3 years old children rose from 35% to 90% and that of 4 years old rose from 60% to virtually 100%. This paper evaluates the eect of such an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008691806