Posts Tagged ‘
education ’
May 13th, 2013 |
By Louise McLarnan
A new report demonstrates the connection between maternal and child education, finding that mothers’ literacy programs boost their children’s math scores and their own sense of empowerment.
Posted in Child & Family, International Affairs, Research in Brief |
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Tags: Bihar, Child Education, Development, education, Empowerment, Human capital, India, International Development, James Berry, Literacy, Literacy Programs, Marc Shotland, Maternal Education, Millennium Development Goals, Pratham, Primary Education, Rajasthan, Rukmini Banerji, School Enrollment, women, Women's Empowerment
Apr 2nd, 2013 |
By Simone Facey
Is the growing achievement gap hampering disadvantaged kids’ ability to catch up?
Posted in Child & Family, Research in Brief |
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Tags: Academic Skills, achievement gap, Brookings Institution, Brookings Institution’s Social Genome Project, Childhood Intervention, children, Cognitive Skills, Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, education, Education Reform, Head Start, Isabel Sawhill, J. Lawrence Aber, Kerry Searle Grannis, Kindergarten, Maternal Education, Middle Childhood, school quality, Social-emotional Learning, Stephanie Owen, Student Performance, Success for All, Whole School Reform
Mar 11th, 2013 |
By Alex Usher
A new study examines whether more time in the classroom mean smarter students.
Posted in Child & Family, Research in Brief |
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Tags: Cognitive Skills, Crystallized Intelligence, Dan-Olof Rooth, education, Extended school day, Fluid Intelligence, Gordon B. Dahl, Magnus Carlsson, National Bureau of Economic Research, Sweden
Feb 27th, 2013 |
By Louise McLarnan
UNDP’s Eugenia Piza-Lopez and Jago Salmon discuss the organization’s strategy in nations struggling to rebuild after conflict
Posted in International Affairs, Policy in Practice |
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Tags: Community Development, Crisis Prevention and Disaster Preparedness Program, Democracy, Development, education, Elections, Eugenia Piza-Lopez, government, International Development, Jago Salmon, Liberia, MDGs, Millenium Development Goals, NGOs, Non-Governmental Organizations, Peace, Peacebuilding Commission, Post-Conflict Nations, Poverty, Primary Education, Prosperity, Reconstruction, reform, Social Contract, UN Security Council, UNDP, United Nations, United Nations Development Program
Feb 11th, 2013 |
By Alex Usher
Researchers investigate if scholarship money, on top of financial aid, can encourage students to remain in college.
Posted in Child & Family, Research in Brief |
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Tags: Douglas N. Harris, education, Financial Aid, higher education, James Benson, Madison, Robert Kelchen, Sara Goldrick‐Rab, Scholarships, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Scholars Grant Program
Feb 1st, 2013 |
By Sarah Sibley
Nashville’s CFO describes how a combination of tax increases, budget cuts, and infrastructure investments has kept the city thriving
Posted in Policy in Practice, Urban Affairs |
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Tags: City Services, education, Employee Benefits, FEMA, Healthcare, Law Enforcement, Municipal CFO Series, Nashville, pensions, Property Taxes, public safety, recession, Richard Riebeling, stimulus, tax policy, Tennessee
Dec 28th, 2012 |
By Zachary Trout
Researchers expand their focus on the effects of school-choice programs to include the reactions of districts to student migration.
Posted in Child & Family, Research in Brief |
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Tags: competition, David Welsch, David Zimmer, education, Open Enrollment, school quality, Student Mobility, Test Scores, Wisconsin
Dec 20th, 2012 |
By Louise McLarnan
A World Bank report looks at the impact of women’s social capital on child malnutrition in Peru.
Posted in Child & Family, International Affairs, Research in Brief |
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Tags: Childhood Malnutrition, children, Development, education, Food Fortification, International Development, Malnutrition, Marta Favara, Nutrition, Peru, Social Capital, Social Participation, University of Oxford, women, World Bank
Dec 4th, 2012 |
By Alex Usher
An education expert discusses the future of education policy legislation
Posted in Child & Family, Policy in Practice |
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Tags: American Politics, Andrew Rotherham, Congress, Domestic Policy, education, education policy, Elementary and Secondary Education Act, No Child Left Behind, Obama Administration
Oct 2nd, 2012 |
By Lindsay Haymes
How valuable are non-degree certificate programs for participants?
Posted in Child & Family, Labor & Finance, Research in Brief |
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Tags: Andrew R. Hanson, Anthony P. Carnevale, cert, Certificate programs, community college, degrees, economics, Economy, education, Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce, Jobs, labor economics, non-degree certificate, salaries, Stephen J. Rose, Wages, work, workforce