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This article presents information that speaks of the disparity in academic achievement between African American males and other ethnic groups, male and female alike. It also shows how after-school programs could provide services that would address and decrease some of these disparities. The article is divided into three sections. The first section addresses policy issues affecting the targeted population. The second section presents four programs that have successfully improved the academic...
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The identification of students with the potential to succeed in mathematics- and science-based study despite previous educational disadvantage is a critical issue currently facing many South African higher education institutions. The possible use of school-leaving examination (Matric) results and/or scores on specially developed aptitude tests for the selection of disadvantaged students was investigated during a four year UNIFY Selection Research Project. UNIFY is a mathematics and science...
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Fogo Island in the Cape Verde Archipelago (North Atlantic) is a stratovolcano of nearly conical shape that rises 2829 m above sea level and ∼6000 m above the surrounding seafloor. With a population of 40 000, the island has known intense historical volcanic activity since AD 1500, with an average interval between eruptions of the order of 20 years. Twentieth-century rates were more subdued, with only two flank eruptions in 1951 and 1995. Following the 1995 eruption, increased awareness of...
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In the twenty-first century, computers and information technology are a critically important part of the commercial, financial and industrial environment. The Accounting curriculum and milieu in South African schools has lagged behind this technological advancement, as Accounting teachers still predominantly use the traditional 'chalk and talk' method of instruction, to the exclusion of computerassisted instruction. This study was carried out at two South African high schools, to investigate...
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The competencies of a sample of teachers of integrated science (ISC) in the induction of future scientists were investigated. Thirty teachers of integrated science in the junior secondary schools in Rivers State of Nigeria were observed by five science teacher educationists. The teachers were in general only fair in their demonstrated ISC teaching competencies, they were relatively strongest in the environmental category of competencies and weakest in the pedagogical category. The...
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BACK GROUND: The East African region of the continent, particularly Ethiopia experienced prolonged drought during 1997-2000 resulting in severe food shortage especially in southeast part of the country. As a result people, mostly children suffered from malnutrition, which is associated cause of death for more than half of all underfive mortality in developing countries. The aim of this study was to describes the profile and outcome of pediatric admissions to Gode Hospital during the relief...
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This article considers the appropriateness of applying college student development theories that are based on European/European American psychology to the development of African American college students. It suggests that theories for the development of African American college students should be Afrocentric in nature, that is, they should be based on African psychology.
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Abstract The study investigated the influence of language policy in education in a bilingual mathematics classroom in the first four years of primary school in selected schools in Malawi. The sample consisted of mathematics teachers from primary schools in Zomba District. Classroom observation and clinical interviews were conducted with teachers who each taught a lesson in Chichewa and also in English. The findings showed that teachers experience dilemmas and tensions in the use of either...
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This article describes the experiences of 16 African American students who attended four small, predominantly White colleges in the Southern Appalachian region of the United States. The African American community at these small colleges can sometimes be an unforeseen cultural experience especially for Black male and female nonathletes. Qualitative methodology guided the study with semistructured interviews as the primary data source.
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The policy initiatives of the post 1994 era have been a major step towards the leveling of the playing field with regard to access to higher education in South Africa. Access policy developments ranging from the National Education Policy Investigation (NEPI 1992) to the National Plan on Higher Education (NPHE 2001) are indicative of government's commitment to ensuring equitable opportunities for the majority of South Africans to pursue Higher Education. Some ground has been covered towards...
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This report reviews South African research relating to the scientific interests of the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior (IAVCEI) and which was published between 1999 and 2002. The focus is on published work and does not include conference presentations and abstract volumes or other informal documents.
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To determine differences between African American adolescents on STD/HIV sexual-risk behaviors and precursors to these risk behaviors.Six hundred sixty-three rural and 3313 nonrural adolescents who completed the 1999 YRBS Survey were selected.Rural females and males were more likely to report ever having coitus and not using a condom during last coitus. Rural females were also more likely to report early coistus, having 3 or more lifetime coital partners, and having more than 1 coital...
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The South Safaga area, Central Eastern Desert of Egypt, comprises an undeformed Dokhan Volcanic suite, which is temporally and spatially associated with immature clastic sediments belonging to the Hammamat Group. Undeformed high level leucogranite intrusions and dykes have invaded these volcanic rocks whereas relatively more deformed lithologies, represented by a syn-tectonic metavolcano-sedimentary association and an I-type tonalite–granodiorite underlie them. The Dokhan Volcanic suite...
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The intervening effects of nutrition status on school attendance rates among Kenyan middle school pupils were assessed. The study also examined the effects of nutrition status on primary school achievement scores for the eighth-grade class of 1997.Data were obtained on 851 pupils enrolled in the five indexed schools. Anthropometric measures included weight for age, height for age, and relative weight for height, and the values were derived from the raw data. Percentage of attendance rates...