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Amanda J. Neitzel; Betsy Wolf; Xinxing Guo; Ahmed F. Shakarchi; Christine SySantos Levy; Robert E. Slavin; Megan Collins – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2021
Background: Reading failure is far higher among disadvantaged students than among other students (National Center for Education Statistics, 2019). Many attempts to solve this have focused on schools, yet non-school factors have a substantial impact on learning (Clabaugh, 2008). One of these is uncorrected vision. Approximately 20-25% of school-age…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Districts, Disadvantaged, Minority Group Students
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Farkas, Gary J.; Mazurek, Ewa; Marone, Jane R. – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2016
The VARK learning style is a pedagogical focus in health care education. This study examines relationships of course performance vs. VARK learning preference, study time, and career plan among students enrolled in an undergraduate anatomy and physiology course at a large urban university. Students (n?=?492) from the fall semester course completed…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Career Choice, Student Attitudes, Medical Schools
Carson, Arthur L. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1961
Because of close relations between the Philippines and the United States in the earlier years of this century, developments in the Philippines since that country achieved its independence in 1946 are of particular interest to Americans. An important aspect of the island nation's efforts in its first 15 years of complete self-government is the…
Descriptors: Educational History, War, Politics of Education, Economic Factors