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UNICEF, 2025
Every child has the right to learn. Yet for far too many, that right remains unfulfilled. Poverty, environmental shocks, conflict, displacement, disability and discrimination continue to keep children out of school or stuck in classrooms without meaningful learning, or disrupt learning altogether. This is especially true for girls and other…
Descriptors: Global Education, Educational Finance, International Organizations, International Programs
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Spogli, Ronald P.; Truhn, J. Patrick – Industry and Higher Education, 2008
This paper first examines key differences between the traditional approaches of the USA and Italy in relation to innovation and entrepreneurship. The authors then turn to the specific example of southern Italy, which has experienced higher rates of unemployment, lower US investment and fewer educational and cultural exchanges than the rest of the…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Economic Progress, Innovation, Foreign Countries
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Creemers, Bert P. M.; Reezigt, Gerry J. – School Effectiveness & School Improvement, 2005
School effectiveness and school improvement have different origins: School effectiveness is more directed to finding out "what works" in education and "why"; school improvement is practice and policy oriented and intended to change education in the desired direction. However, in their orientation to outcomes, input, processes,…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Educational Improvement, Educational Change, Educational Theories
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Ligorio, M. Beatrice – Computers & Education, 2001
Describes Euroland, a virtual world that was generated within the context of a joint research project between The Netherlands and Italy aimed at the facilitation of cross-cultural communication and collaborative knowledge building between schools using a variety of communication formats, including text-based versus visual and synchronous versus…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication, Foreign Countries, Intercultural Communication
Bertrand, Gilles – Francais dans le Monde, 1994
The evolution of heritage education in France is chronicled, from its introduction in the late 1980s through an emergence of interest in the Council of Europe, and to a series of 30 or so experiments conducted cooperatively by France and Italy, including international exchanges. Cultural, educational, and human benefits are examined. (MSE)
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Education, French, Heritage Education
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Smith, Robert – Electronic Library, 1990
Describes cooperative project between the national libraries of the United Kingdom, France, West Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, Portugal, and Italy that is working toward shared bibliographic data on CD-ROM. MARC conversion is discussed, problems with multilingual interfaces and linking CD-ROM to local library systems are addressed, and…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Records, Cataloging, Cooperative Programs, Foreign Countries