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Many argue schools that serve inner-city and rural children are in crisis. This paper reviews the best available evidence on the effects of class size and school vouchers. Results from the Tennessee STAR experiment suggest smaller class sizes improve achievement, particularly for inner-city and minority children; results from the New York City voucher experiment and the Milwaukee Parental Choice program suggest there may be small achievement gains in mathematics for the African-American and...
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Publisher Summary This chapter illustrates the usage of venetian blinds that are observed to successfully overcome the problems of excessive exposure to sunlight in a primary school in Constantine. The chapter also discusses the factors governing the choice of venetian blinds over other forms of shading and describes the reactions of occupants to the blinds. It is noted that a good daylighting design does not essentially need to be complex or expensive to be effective. Some form of remedial...
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The study reviews tertiary education in Sub-Saharan Africa, in light of persistent pressures to expand access to education, despite declining quality, and mere funding possibilities. It identifies multiple symptoms for this fundamental imbalance, such as overcrowded, and poorly equipped learning facilities, declining research output, and irrelevant curricula, as some of the most notorious. The argument questions how Africa might improve the balance between access to tertiary education and...
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This project focuses on the installation, teaching, and developing Information Technology in a self-maintained collective organisation: the Montessori Training Centre, Lushoto, Tanzania. Our practical endeavour consists in implementing modern technology in this environment. We have organised teachings for the staff of this organisation based on basic knowledge in computer use. We also studied how Information Technology may be implemented and its impact on their schooling system, their...
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This chapter examines the development and maintenance of teacher role and identity by means of a case study of student teachers entering the profession in Durban, South Africa. The first part of the chapter briefly explores the nature of teacher role identity with particular attention paid to contextual factors in shaping a teacher's professional environment. The second part presents the South African case study, focusing on the experiences of two young entrants to the profession. The...
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This chapter examines the development and maintenance of teacher role and identity by means of a case study of student teachers entering the profession in Durban, South Africa. The first part of the chapter briefly explores the nature of teacher role identity with particular attention paid to contextual factors in shaping a teacher's professional environment. The second part presents the South African case study, focusing on the experiences of two young entrants to the profession. The...
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This chapter examines the development and maintenance of teacher role and identity by means of a case study of student teachers entering the profession in Durban, South Africa. The first part of the chapter briefly explores the nature of teacher role identity with particular attention paid to contextual factors in shaping a teacher's professional environment. The second part presents the South African case study, focusing on the experiences of two young entrants to the profession. The...
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This chapter examines the development and maintenance of teacher role and identity by means of a case study of student teachers entering the profession in Durban, South Africa. The first part of the chapter briefly explores the nature of teacher role identity with particular attention paid to contextual factors in shaping a teacher's professional environment. The second part presents the South African case study, focusing on the experiences of two young entrants to the profession. The...
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Education-abroad programs have been available to the adventurous student in U.S. colleges and universities for many decades. Traditionally, European destinations were sought. Over time, opportunities expanded to include less overtly Western countries and cultures. What all of these diverse programs had in common, however, is that they led to so-called developed countries. Opportunities to study in Third World countries were not rigorously exploited, and the African continent was all but ignored.
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During the mid-1920s, Francis Cecil Sumner, the first African American to earn a PhD in psychology, published 2 articles concerning strategies for the higher education of African American youths. These articles called for a system of segregated education emphasizing an "industrial" style advocated by Booker T. Washington, as well as suggesting a measure of character development. The justification cited by Sumner for such unequal education for African Americans was the cultural inferiority of...
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Abstract The Department of Informatics at the University of Pretoria in South Africa has been involved in a research project funded by the Foundation for Research and Development (FRD) since 1996. The main focus of this project is to establish computer‐supported co‐operative learning centres in various rural communities. The case study described in this paper discusses a part of this project that was undertaken during 1998. The paper outlines the computer literacy course where co‐operative...
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To simultaneously determine the effect of propofol on myocardial oxygenation, mitochondrial function, and whole organ function in an isolated heart model, using optical reflectance spectroscopy.Controlled laboratory investigation.Research laboratory.Twenty adult guinea pigs.Isolated hearts were perfused alternately with a modified oxygenated Krebs-Henseleit buffer and with buffer containing varied concentrations of propofol. Ninety seconds of ischemia were produced during perfusion with each...