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As educators begin to pioneer various types of grandparent education programs, little is known about what types of grandparents are interested in such training. To help answer this question, 427 grandparents from 15 churches in the Washington, D.C. area completed the Grandparent Strengths and Needs Inventory. A series of statistical comparisons across 23 variables revealed 10 significant differences between grandparents who expressed interest in taking a grandparenting class and those who...
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The changing implications of the use of the term in the context of economic growth and development in Africa and other regions of the Third World is important in understanding current approaches to and development, as used by the United Nations Commission for Environment and Development, for example (World Commission 1987). In the 1970s, it was widely assumed especially among economists that the environment was somehow external or secondary to economic development. In some cases, it was...
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"Bible, Bath, and Broom": Nannie Helen Burroughs's National Training School and African-American Racial Uplift Victoria W. Wolcott In a promotional booklet, "Making Their Mark," school president and founder Nannie H. Burroughs looked back on the accompUshments of the National Training School for Women and Girls by relating the story of former student Bettie B. Reed. When a white famüy hired Reed to accompany them to their summer home in Maine, there was only one bathtub in the home which...
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El Nino (EN) is the increase in the surface temperatures (SST) in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean. EN results from changes in the pattern and direction of winds and ocean currents in the region, which have potentially catastrophic effects. Many researchers now believe that the occurrence of various droughts in Africa, especially in Southern Africa and the Horn, are caused by physical processes related to the occurrence of ENSO events thousands of miles away. If valid and...
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This article is aimed at evaluating the interaction . of South African higher education studies with ... research undertaken abroad. During the past . decade a constant stream of publications dealing . with South African higher education appeared in subject journals in other c~ntries . Likewise. a . steady flow of articles deahng ;ith the ·higher educational experience abroad appeared in local journals. In both instances. however. there is a · lack of a full . comparatiVe perspective. The ·...
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To achieve optimal balance between cultural integration, differentiation, equity, and development, this article argues that an culture must be established in South Africa's public schools. This will demand critical awareness of and informed commitment by educators and learners to prevent schools, especially the formerly White schools, from continuing to embody skewed values and practices that, in a new political dispensation, enshrine rather than redress inequity. It will also require...
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Despite open access to both primary and junior secondary school (JSS), non-enrolment and dropout have been countrywide problems in Ghana. This thesis investigates the nature of student dropout from JSS in one district in the country, through four main questions. What is the relationship between drop-out rates and school characteristics of JSS in K.E.E.A. district? What are the factors causing students to drop out? What are the processes of dropping out? What are the consequences of dropping...