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African American English has a rich oral tradition, with identifiable features across all 5 systems of language—phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. This is an investigation of the extent to which pragmatic features of African American oral storytelling traditions are apparent in the written stories of African American students (n = 30) at fourth-, sixth-, and ninth-grade levels in an urban school district in the Midwest compared with stories written by 61 European...
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This paper uses a randomized experiment to compare to methods of implementing an early primary literacy program in Northern Uganda. Our first treatment group receives the program as implemented by the organization that designed it; the second treatment group received a reduced-cost version of the program that was designed to simulate it might be scaled up. The full version of the program has extremely large impacts on student learning: it improves student recognition of letter names by 1.0...
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An article published in International Journal of Humanities Social Sciences and Education (IJHSSE)
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Thesis. M.A. American University of Beirut. Department of History and Archaeology, 2015. T:6321
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Poverty reduction is not a preserve for the policy and decision makers only. It is a concern among the poor who by any means come up with local adaptation and mitigation strategies. The majority of the rural poor communities are currently challenged by the impact of climate change as it is threatening their sources of livelihoods. This research investigates how rural communities of women are making an effort to reduce poverty. These women live in Eastern Botswana and depend on natural...
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The present study is focused on identifying the effects of vocabulary learning strategies on academic achievement of students who learn English as a foreign language in Libya. The primary assumption made in this study is that the high achieving students in a class make use of a particular strategy or set of strategies for learning, including learning vocabulary items in a foreign language, different from the low achieving students, which help them learn new vocabulary items faster, retain...
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To provide an update on rehabilitation in Madagascar by using local knowledge to outline the potential barriers and facilitators for implementation of the World Health Organization (WHO) Disability Action Plan (DAP).A 14-day extensive workshop programme (September-October 2014) was held at the University Hospital Antananarivo and Antsirabe, with the Department of Health Madagascar, by rehabilitation staff from Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia. Attendees were rehabilitation professionals...
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Africa is considered among the most highly vulnerable regions to climate change because of extremes of drought, flooding, inappropriate land tenure systems, overdependence on rainfed agriculture, and widespread poverty. The impact of climate change is moderated by several factors such as access to land, inputs, credit, and markets. Thus, there is a critical need for decision makers at different levels in Africa to develop matching response strategies and policies to reduce vulnerability and...
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Violations of basic individual freedom and rights and authoritarianism have remained familiar traits of majority of governments in Africa; and Kenya is not an exception. Educational systems in this regard can be effective in inculcating and fostering a culture of awareness of rights and responsibilities among populace. However, the organizational mode of the current education system in Kenya is lacking in promoting tolerance and democratic values. This paper examines the school assembly as a...
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The problem of pollution affects the whole world groundwater.The purpose of our present study is to evaluate the impact of contamination from residues of industry and agriculture, and discharge of untreated domestic wastewaters on the physical, chemical, metal and bacteriological water quality of Maâmora's tablecloth (Sebou bassin, Kenitra, Morocco).The physicochemical parameters followed are: T ˚C, pH, EC, + 4 NH , 2 NO -, 3 NO -, Cl -, F -, 3 HCO -, 3 CO 2-, SiO 2 , 4 SO 2-, Na + , Ca 2+ ,...
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Father's absence in their children's early lives is very prevalent in South Africa, especially among Black fathers. The purpose of this study is to examine the level of Black fathers' involvement in the early education of their children and other associated factors in South Africa. The paper has two main findings; firstly, with regard to non-involvement in their children's early lives, Black fathers have a high percentage due to their socioeconomic status and HIV/AIDS-related high mortality...
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Despite the numerous initiatives suggested and implemented to reform education in Egypt, very little was achieved in terms of improving education quality and, consequently, boosting development and democratic transition processes in Egypt. This paper argued that basic education in Egypt suffered variant degrees of weaknesses in applying good governance dimensions, including participation, accountability, responsiveness, fighting corruption, effectiveness and transparency, which ultimately...
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Unemployment has been on the rise over the years in Zimbabwe, and a lot of graduates have found themselves unemployed. Concurrently, the establishment, growth of state universities, and admissions into these universities has been on the rise. Most of the university graduates in the country have found themselves stuck at home with no employment and source of livelihood. These challenges have forced different stakeholders in the country to be innovative and come up with strategies to counter...