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The Caring for Children in the Community Study examined the prevalence of DSM-IV psychiatric disorders and correlates of mental health service use in rural African American and white youth.Four thousand five hundred youth aged 9 to 17 years from 4 North Carolina counties were randomly selected from school databases. Parents completed telephone questionnaires about their children's behavior problems. A second-stage sample of 1302 was identified for recruitment into the interview phase of the...
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Welcoming Spirit Home: Ancient African Teachings to Celebrate Children and Community by Sobonfu Some (1999). Novato, CA: New World Library. 141 pp. ISBN: 1-57731-009-8. Welcoming Spirit Home is a book that anyone interested in birth, children, or the fostering of non-violent, compassionate societies is likely to want to read. Start to finish. In one sitting. In this warm and majestically written little book (a mere 5 by 7 inches, and only 140 pages in length), Sobonfu Some brings to life the...
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TECHNOLOGY USE IN BOTSWANA schools is relatively new compared to many other parts of the world. And because of its financial implications, the decision to implement technology had to be weighed against many other pressing needs, such as access to basic education, food and shelter. However, improving the quality of education is one of the country's top priorities, mainly because education has been heavily criticized for failing to better prepare students to work and participate in their...
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The outcomes-based education or OBE paradigm (the underlying philosophy behind South Africa's ‘Curriculum’ 2005), which focuses on the outcomes of the educational process, was introduced in South Africa during the last decade as one of the measures to improve the quality of education in post-apartheid South Africa and to address the demands for an increasingly skilled working force. The OBE system (model) was introduced in South Africa on the assumption that it would lead to an increase in...
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(2002). The Modernization of Education: A Case Study of Tunisia and Morocco. The European Legacy: Vol. 7, No. 5, pp. 579-596.
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Although the French Secular Mission (Mission Laïque Française (MLF)), founded in 1902, was not an official organ of the French state, its cultural politics, expressed through the establishment of overseas schools in places such as late Ottoman Salonica (in 1906), early twentieth-century Egypt, early Mandate Syria and elsewhere, paralleled and coincided with the official French government program to promote the use of the French language and a knowledge of its civilizational values amongst...
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To establish the relative increase in the prevalence of asthma, allergic rhinitis and eczema in primary school children aged 13-14 years over a six year interval.Cross sectional comparative study.Primary schools in three rural divisions at Uasin Gishu district in the Rift Valley Province of Kenya.Three thousand two hundred and fifty eight children aged 13-14 years from seventy two primary schools in Uasin Gishu district were studied using the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in...
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If for Russell Johnson the experience of teaching the Gilded Age and Progressive Era in Turkey was that of being in a “not so strange land,” my four months as a Fulbright professor at the University of Alexandria in Egypt were often quite the opposite. There I was truly a stranger in a strange land. But it is important to note right from the start that by strange I mean foreign in the sense that American history of any sort is not part of the Egyptian university curriculum. So much so that...
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Previous article No AccessRecent Books on African American Educational History William H. Watkins, The White Architects of Black Education: Ideology and Power in America, 1865-1954 William H. Watkins, James H. Lewis, and Victoria Chou, eds., Race and Education: The Roles of History and Society in Educating African American Students Karen A. Johnson, Uplifting the Women and the Race: The Educational Philosophies and Social Activism of Anna Julia Cooper and Nannie Helen Burroughs Anna Victoria...
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We hypothesized that impaired stress-induced pressure natriuresis increases blood pressure (BP) load. The 118 African American youths were brought into similar levels of sodium balance. The protocol consisted of a 2-h baseline period, a 1-h stress period (competitive video games), and a 2-h recovery period. Normal pressure natriuresis (n = 80) resulted from a resistance-mediated (r = 0.23; P < .03) increase in BP (P < .001). In contrast, impaired pressure natriuresis (n = 38), leading to an...
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This relational study examined the relationship between sense of as perceived by freshman American students at predominantly white public institutions and the intent of these students to re-enroll. Utilizing the College and University Community Inventory (CUCI), this study examined freshman students' perceptions of at four predominantly White public universities, the relation between these perceptions and students' intent to re-enroll at the same institution the following semester, and the...
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This paper focuses on experimental bilingual programmes in Guinea-Bissau and Niger, West Africa. Both countries introduced transitional bilingual programmes in pilot schools and compared test results and teacher–pupil interaction between bilingual and monolingual (ex-colonial language) schools. Test results in Niger demonstrated that pupils who started in their mother tongues could read and write better even in the second language. Observations in both countries indicated that bilingual...
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There has been scant research examining African American students' perceptions of their learning environments. Nonetheless, the persistent underachievement of African American students merits an investigation into their viewpoints as to what types of teaching and learning environments promote high achievement. In this article, I detail findings from a qualitative case study that examined African American elementary and secondary students' descriptions of teaching practices and learning...
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(2002). Between Islamic and Western Secular Education in Ghana: A Progressive Integration Approach. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs: Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 335-350.
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The National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and International Centers for Tropical Disease Research Network held their 11th annual meeting ‘Research Beyond Boundaries’ on 15–18 April 2002.