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Minorities have long been excluded from biomedical research programs, both as researchers and as study participants. One reason for the dearth of minority researchers is their lack of awareness that federal and private financial assistance programs exist on their behalf. To provide opportunities for minorities in biomedical research, minority institutions must be given expanded opportunities to participate in federally sponsored biomedical research programs. Thus both governmental and...
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Transition from an apartheid education system to a democratic education system in South Africa : a minor field study
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Analysis of qualitative data reveals that the formal and informal peer networks of African American students in predominantly White elite independent schools support these students' academic success, create opportunities for them to reaffirm their racial identities, and facilitate their adjustment to settings that are otherwise difficult for Blacks toit into. Contrasted to research showing that adopting academically successful behaviors leads Black students to being labeled as acting White,...
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Various studies demonstrate that school and teacher characteristics play an important role in pupil success. This article presents the findings from a study in Guinea-Bissau in which it is shown that the higher educational level and the level of the teacher training and the school buildings and equipment deemed appropriate do not always contribute to better pupil results. Two principal and partially complementary interpretations of these results are made. First, in a society where the...
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January 1997*An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Workshop on Determinants ofEducational Attainments in Sub-Saharan Africa held on 2 December 1996 at theAcademy for Educational Development, Washington, D.C. Comments by HaroldAlderman, Ronald Ridker, and other participants at the workshop are gratefullyacknowledged.
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Africa is considered as one of the more hazardous continents, as its high mortality and low life expectancy, along with misconceptions about natural hazards and contradictions in perceptions of Africa and Africans, attest. However, in recent years, there has been a shift in natural hazards research, revealing that the Africa's natural disasters would contribute to the further sophistication of the new approach to natural hazards.
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Stepping Over the Color Line: African-American Students in White Suburban Schools, by Amy Stuart Wells and Robert J. Crain. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997. 380 pp. $35.00, cloth. Reviewed by Garrett Albert Duncan, Washington University (Saint Louis, MO). In Stepping Over the Color Line: African-American Students in White Suburban Schools, Amy Wells and Robert Crain present the findings from their five-year study of the St. Louis, Missouri, interdistrict school desegregation plan....
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In the first two or three decades of independence, Nigeria, like the rest of Africa. placed heavy emphasis on expanding educational opportunities from primary school through university. This has resulted in a very impressive increase in the number of stu
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In the first two of three decades of independence, Nigeria, like the rest of Africa, placed heavy emphasis on expanding educational opportunities from primary school through university. This has resulted in a very impressive increase in the number of students enrolled in institutions at all levels. In spite of this, education today, like other social sevices, is in deep cirsis. The population growth which greatly increases the number of children seeking access to scholls combined with the...