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A survey of 456 rural physicians identified features of their training that correlated with their self-reported preparedness for rural practice and small-town living, and with how long they stayed in their rural practice...
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Presents an interview with Jeff Bingaman, senator from New Mexico, who has been instrumental in providing incentives to increase the number of low-income students eligible for Advanced Placement test fee waivers and has ...
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Examines ethical dilemmas encountered during an ethnographic study of how the concept of competence at a Scottish teacher-education institution included the need to prepare future teachers as critical professionals able ...
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Relates the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child to education policy by comparing policies in Argentina, Chile, and Spain. Uses case studies in these countries to propose a framework that reveals some pos...
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Comparison of 124 participants in MONEY 2000, an extension program of savings education, with 101 who attended other personal finance workshops, revealed differences between the two groups in investing funds wisely, sett...
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A competency-based education program trained 217 unlicensed assistive health care personnel. Participants gained knowledge and skills and expressed eagerness to learn more and work on teams. The job description was revis...
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Discusses highlights and lowlights in the recent history of environmental-education-policy development in British Columbia to illuminate some of the likely costs involved and problems to be dealt with in any attempt to r...
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A study examined the outcomes attained by 389 indigenous students who completed programs at the 4 largest Aboriginal community-controlled adult education colleges in the 9-member Federation of Independent Aboriginal Educ...
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The poor state of the Lithuanian economy has led to a diminishing number of jobs and growing number of unemployed. Statistical data make it evident that the poor standard of education is one cause of unemployment. Stages...
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Discusses preservice and inservice beginning-teacher preparation, identifying areas of teaching that challenge the cultural deficit model by examining the role of teaching standards in addressing second-language learners...
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The imbalances between the higher education participation of rural and urban Australians are significant and persistent. This study examined the attitudes, goals, and plans of Australian senior high school students via a...
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This paper on entrepreneurial education compares positions in three national debates. It identifies different ways that formal and informal texts define entrepreneurial education and gives rationales for it--in comprehen...
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This paper summarizes a quantitative synthesis of studies of the effectiveness of interactive distance education using videoconferencing and telecommunications for K-12 academic achievement. Effect sizes for 19 experimen...
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Depuis une vingtaine d'années, l'organisation institutionnelle du secteur de l'eau et de l'assainissement en Argentine connaît de profondes mutations. Jusqu'à la fin des années 1970, ce secteur était presque entièrement ...
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Provides a history of the Cornell University nature study program, which was essentially an agricultural movement in its inception and aims. (CCM)...