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Educational problems of African American students are examined in the context of why young, successful early elementary school students are suddenly struggling in the late elementary and middle school years. Educators need to explore the educational environment, teacher attitudes and expectations, student empowerment, and the appropriateness of the curriculum.
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Abstract Findings from interview data support National Council of Teachers of Mathematics recommendations for student discourse and classroom learning environment. In particular, results indicate that for these African American male students, student involvement and class participation, group work, and student discourse in the classroom are significant contributing factors to their understanding of school mathematics. These perceptions inform pedagogical considerations when seeking to...
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Introduction According to Planalp (1999: 1) the world is forcing its inhabitants to come to terms with emotion. One of these emotions is aggression. Aggression is an integral part of a human being in relationship with his/her self, other persons and the environment. The external manifestations of aggression, whether constructive or destructive is not the starting point of aggression. Aggression develops from childhood and continues into adulthood. In this regard Chamberlain (2000: 2-4) even...
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This study investigated the construct validity of the Career Development Questionnaire and the Career Decision- Making Self-Efficacy Scale for Grade 12 students from a low socioeconomic area in South Africa. The results of confirmatory factor analyses provided support for the construct validity of the Career Development Questionnaire and the Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Scale as measures of career maturity and career decision-making self efficacy respectively. Opsomming Hierdie...
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Considers why Tanzania was not operating a non-graduate level diploma programme until 1989, or a postgraduate programme until 1997; why the diploma was set up by the national public library service rather than by an academic institution; what its fut
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As populations grow, and the number of students attending secondary schools escalates, the need for relevant and appropriate courses for students who finish 12 years of education, but are unable to continue to any tertiary institution, becomes perceived as being more urgent. Botswana, combining political stability and democracy since independence in 1966, has been an example of planned and sustained growth to the rest of Africa. Yet Botswana has resisted the full vocationalization of its...
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In Mozambique, the main aim of the National Education policy is to promote, among others, gender equity in the access to all levels of education. However, there are more females than males, who do not benefit from this aim. This gender discrepancy increases over the education levels, and particularly in mathematics and its related fields. Mathematics is taught as a compulsory subject at the beginning of primary school to the lower secondary school and it becomes an optional subject at the...
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In Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, serious flooding occurs regularly. During the rainy seasons a larger part of the run-off is stored in the low-lying parts of the city around the Abiot square and the Addis Ababa stadium, blocking the traffic in this area. Additionally the area has serious flood problems caused by the Bantyiketu River.
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The volcanic history of the Neoproterozoic belt in the Eastern Desert of Egypt encompasses two major magmatic episodes. An earlier episode (950-750 Ma) produced the Shadli metavolcanic assemblages, and a younger episode (680-550 Ma) produced the Dokhan volcanic rocks. The Dokhan volcanics (DV) at Um Shilman-Um Dubr, situated in the Southeast Aswan of Egypt, range in composition from basalt-andesite-dacite to rhyodacite-rhyolite. The latter unit is made up largely of ash flow tuffs and...
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A retrospective analysis of cases of caesarean section performed in Jos University Teaching Hospital between January 1994 and December 1998 was undertaken to determine the incidence, indications, perinatal and maternal outcome. There were 11,571 deliveries with 2083 caesarean sections done giving an incidence of 18%. 62.2% of the patients who had caesarean section were booked for antenatal care and delivered in the hospital, while 37.8% were unbooked seen as emergency. 90% of the operations...
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Sleep problems among pupils in Benghazi, Libya.Al-Sharbati, M. M. - 2002 - PubMed, 23(9), 1105–1109
To find the prevalence of sleep problems among pupils, its possible causes and associated behaviors.This study was carried out during 3-24 February 1996. We randomly selected a sample of (277) 5th graders (181 boys and 96 girls), from 3 public primary schools in 3 different socio-economic areas in Benghazi, Libya. We interviewed the pupils and the teachers by a pretested questionnaire concerning sleep, school achievement and other behaviors. Those pupils who sleep after 10:00 pm, or those...
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The prevalence and severity of early onset periodontitis (EOP) among students attending secondary schools in two regions of Uganda was studied.690 students (393 males and 297 females) aged 12-25 years (mean 17 years), representing a range of tribal groups, were recruited from six schools in the peri-urban Central and rural Western regions of Uganda. The study subjects were clinically examined in field conditions by a single calibrated examiner to measure gingival recession and probing depth...
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Abstract: The aim of this article is threefold: to interrogate the crises that have afflicted public universities in Kenya over a period of thirty years, starting in the 1970s and intensifying in the 1980s and 1990s; to examine the impact of student activism and protest on education policy; and to investigate the role of current and former university students in national leadership and the democratization process in Kenya. University students are destined to be the intelligentsia who one day...