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Spear, Anne; Chapman, Natasha – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2020
In 2015, a university from Hong Kong led an international service-learning course to Kigali, Rwanda. The focus of the course was to install solar panels in individual households in a community, on the outskirts of Kigali, without access to electricity. The following year, the Hong Kong university partnered with a university in the United States…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Service Learning
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McGuinness, Aims C., Jr. – Higher Education Management and Policy, 2008
The Commonwealth of Kentucky, a state with among the lowest levels of per capita income and education attainment in the United States, embarked on an ambitious set of higher education reforms in 1997 aimed at elevating the state to the national average of educational attainment by 2020. At the time of their enactment, the Kentucky reforms were…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Living Standards, Educational Attainment
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Hale-Jinks, Claudia; Knopf, Herman; Kemple, Kristen – Childhood Education, 2006
"Teacher turnover," the number of teachers who leave a program during a year has numerous detrimental effects that can lower the quality of care received by children and families. High rates of teacher turnover, high child-to-adult ratios, and poorly trained staff characterize poor-quality child care in the United States. In fact, high…
Descriptors: Faculty Mobility, Teacher Persistence, Child Care, Teacher Burnout