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In the past two decades, cash-strapped countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have been unable to provide even rudimentary primary education systems. User fees for primary education have become common, as has the intervention of parent-teacher associations (PTAs), which requires further fees. A look at the relationship between PTAs and local government in Jinja, Uganda, demonstrates that the de facto decentralization of the provision of primary education to PTAs provides an opportunity for building...

With a small grant and a good idea, a group of Virginia physics teachers is working in a remote area of Zambia to prevent physics education from becoming a victim of the AIDS pandemic.

Using a joint inversion of seismological waveforms and ground displacement observations, we estimate several parameters of the fault geometry and rupture process of the Mw = 6.9 May 21, 2003 Boumerdes‐Zemmouri earthquake. The relocated epicenter is considered as a known parameter. Total rupture length, rupture duration, and maximum slip are 55 km (from 3.4°E to 4.0°E), 12 s, and 3 m. The modeled south dipping reverse fault, oriented ENE‐WSW outcrops a few km offshore which is consistent with...

This article, written by Technology Editor Dennis Denney, contains highlights of paper OTC 16571, "West Africa Deepwater Developments: Subsurface Learnings," by Chuck W. Calavan and Timothy R. Garfield, ExxonMobil, prepared for the 2004 Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, 3-6 May.

Perceived Family Process Factors and Mathematics Performance Among Latino, African, and European American Middle School Students Efforts to identify factors that contribute to mathematics performance among school children have been on-going for several decades (e.g., Friedman, 1994; Gardner, Ritbiatt, & Beatty, 2000), including the study of the impact of parental involvement (e.g., Keith, Keith, Troutman, Bickley, Trivette & Sing, 1993). Evidence suggest that parental involvement may improve...

Perceived Family Process Factors and Mathematics Performance Among Latino, African, and European American Middle School Students Efforts to identify factors that contribute to mathematics performance among school children have been on-going for several decades (e.g., Friedman, 1994; Gardner, Ritbiatt, & Beatty, 2000), including the study of the impact of parental involvement (e.g., Keith, Keith, Troutman, Bickley, Trivette & Sing, 1993). Evidence suggest that parental involvement may improve...

Using school, district, and county data from the State of Florida Department of Education and the U.S. Census, we examine the relationship between school segregation and the overrepresentation of black students among those suspended. We explore two competing hypotheses about the nature of this relationship: (1) an overall racial inequality hypothesis that suggests schools located in districts with relatively high levels of segregation among students also have the largest black suspension...

Abstract In 1917, the typical teacher in black schools in South Africa was supposedly a girl of nineteen with one year of training beyond the elementary syllabus. Lily Moya seemingly confirmed the stereotype in 1950, congratulating herself at sixteen for ‘doing a Missionary hard work’ in a Transkei primary school, while not really enjoying teaching ‘in the black hole of Calcutta’. The article explores whether such youthful desperation was by then more atypical than widespread. After some...

Abstract In 1917, the typical teacher in black schools in South Africa was supposedly a girl of nineteen with one year of training beyond the elementary syllabus. Lily Moya seemingly confirmed the stereotype in 1950, congratulating herself at sixteen for ‘doing a Missionary hard work’ in a Transkei primary school, while not really enjoying teaching ‘in the black hole of Calcutta’. The article explores whether such youthful desperation was by then more atypical than widespread. After some...

ABSTRACT Issues of language and education are central to the process of nation building in the new South Africa. In this paper, I examine the rhetoric and the practice of the intersections of South Africa's language and education policies. While early education policy documents are predicated on the need to reassert the importance of African languages in relation to English and Afrikaans, the official languages during apartheid, these discourses of language equality are now being replaced...

Aflatoxins are dietary contaminants that are hepatocarcinogenic and immunotoxic and cause growth retardation in animals, but there is little evidence concerning the latter two parameters in exposed human populations. Aflatoxin exposure of West African children is known to be high, so we conducted a longitudinal study over an 8-month period in Benin to assess the effects of exposure on growth. Two hundred children 16–37 months of age were recruited from four villages, two with high and two...

Aflatoxins are dietary contaminants that are hepatocarcinogenic and immunotoxic and cause growth retardation in animals, but there is little evidence concerning the latter two parameters in exposed human populations. Aflatoxin exposure of West African children is known to be high, so we conducted a longitudinal study over an 8-month period in Benin to assess the effects of exposure on growth. Two hundred children 16–37 months of age were recruited from four villages, two with high and two...

Aflatoxins are dietary contaminants that are hepatocarcinogenic and immunotoxic and cause growth retardation in animals, but there is little evidence concerning the latter two parameters in exposed human populations. Aflatoxin exposure of West African children is known to be high, so we conducted a longitudinal study over an 8-month period in Benin to assess the effects of exposure on growth. Two hundred children 16–37 months of age were recruited from four villages, two with high and two...

Aflatoxins are dietary contaminants that are hepatocarcinogenic and immunotoxic and cause growth retardation in animals, but there is little evidence concerning the latter two parameters in exposed human populations. Aflatoxin exposure of West African children is known to be high, so we conducted a longitudinal study over an 8-month period in Benin to assess the effects of exposure on growth. Two hundred children 16–37 months of age were recruited from four villages, two with high and two...

Aflatoxins are dietary contaminants that are hepatocarcinogenic and immunotoxic and cause growth retardation in animals, but there is little evidence concerning the latter two parameters in exposed human populations. Aflatoxin exposure of West African children is known to be high, so we conducted a longitudinal study over an 8-month period in Benin to assess the effects of exposure on growth. Two hundred children 16–37 months of age were recruited from four villages, two with high and two...

Aflatoxins are dietary contaminants that are hepatocarcinogenic and immunotoxic and cause growth retardation in animals, but there is little evidence concerning the latter two parameters in exposed human populations. Aflatoxin exposure of West African children is known to be high, so we conducted a longitudinal study over an 8-month period in Benin to assess the effects of exposure on growth. Two hundred children 16–37 months of age were recruited from four villages, two with high and two...