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Direct linkCollins, Kathleen; Millard, Maria – Educational Review, 2013
The state of tertiary education in South Africa is not adequately meeting the needs of its populace. The system in place does not effectively nor appropriately target the racial group of students which forms the democratic majority. This paper portrays the reasons why these students are not succeeding on the basis of a mismatch between their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Experience, Social Work, Educational Change
Download full textGropen, Jess; Clark-Chiarelli, Nancy; Chalufour, Ingrid; Hoisington, Cindy; Eggers-Pierola, Costanza – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2009
Over the past three years, the authors' team at Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC) has been researching a professional development program in science, "Foundations of Science Literacy" ("FSL"), for preschool lead and assistant Head Start teachers in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Year 1 was a pilot year, so it is the…
Descriptors: Assignments, Science Activities, Disadvantaged Youth, Physical Sciences
Newmann, Fred M.; Bryk, Anthony S.; Nagaoka, Jenny K. – 2001
This study of Chicago teachers' assignments in mathematics and writing in grades 3, 6, and 8 shows that students who received assignments requiring more challenging intellectual work also achieved greater than average gains on the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills in reading and mathematics, and demonstrated higher performance in reading, mathematics,…
Descriptors: Assignments, Difficulty Level, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education
