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Sun, Ang; Yao, Yang – Economics of Education Review, 2010
Using a long panel dataset of Chinese farm households covering the period of 1987-2002, this paper studies how major health shocks happening to household adults affect children's school attainments. We find that primary school-age children are the most vulnerable to health shocks, with their chances to enter middle school dropping by 9.9…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Birth Order, Foreign Countries, Rural Areas
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Bisland, Beverly Milner – Social Studies, 2010
One way that people learn, remember and communicate is visually. We combine past experiences with new visual information to construct meaning. In this study, elementary teachers introduced their students to the peoples and places of the ancient silk routes using illustrations from two children's picture books, "Marco Polo," written by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Action Research, Visual Learning, Elementary School Teachers
Bisland, Beverly Milner – Online Submission, 2008
In this study a group of elementary teachers use illustrations, rather than written text, to introduce their students to the peoples and places of the ancient silk routes. The illustrations are from two picture books; "Marco Polo," written by Gian Paolo Cesaerani and illustrated by Piero Ventura (1977), and "We're Riding on a…
Descriptors: Illustrations, World History, Picture Books, History Instruction