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Lisette Nieves; Noel S. Anderson; Becca Huntting – Palgrave Macmillan, 2024
This book builds on the success of "Working to Learn" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) by focusing on the future of work and how young people, especially low-income young people and young people of color, are pursuing college and career goals through work-based learning experiences, yet encountering an increasingly racially and…
Descriptors: Work Based Learning, Low Income Students, Minority Group Students, Education Work Relationship
Hawkins, David – 1977
In this book the focus is upon education as the vehicle through which individual differences must be reconciled in the light of a moral commitment to the principles of equality. The axiom of equality is reviewed as it was laid down by philosophers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. More recent developments in the philosophy of equality…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories, Equal Education, Ethics
Ellis, Angele; Llewellyn, Marilyn – 1997
This study/action guide was developed from a project on difference and prejudice that was implemented in a Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) high school in 1994 and evaluated through surveys and in-depth interviews. The book provides a basic introduction to difference and prejudice organized about issues of class, race, gender, and disability in the…
Descriptors: Bias, Cultural Differences, Disabilities, Equal Education
Mallory, Bruce L., Ed.; New, Rebecca S., Ed. – 1994
The current conceptualization of what is appropriate in early childhood education is overly narrow in its interpretation of the role of the teacher, and with respect to variations in cultural and developmental diversity. Based on this observation, this book discusses various issues surrounding diversity, inclusion, and appropriate early…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Developmentally Appropriate Practices
Parnes, Herbert S. – 1982
Data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor Market Experience were analyzed to determine the unemployment experiences of four groups of workers from the labor force during a recent decade. The subjects were men who at the end of the decade were 26-34 and 55-69 and women who were 26-34 and 40-54 years of age. Information on unemployment…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Data Analysis, Employed Women
Tinto, Vincent – 1993
This book provides a synthesis of wide-ranging research on student attrition at American colleges and universities and outlines actions that institutions can and should take to reduce attrition. The key to effective retention is shown to lie in a strong commitment to quality education and the building of a strong sense of inclusive educational and…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Environment, Colleges, Cultural Differences
Bowman, Barbara T., Ed.; Donovan, M. Suzanne, Ed.; Burns, M. Susan, Ed. – 2001
To enable educators, parents, and policymakers to make sound decisions about programs for young children, the Committee on Early Childhood Pedagogy was established in 1997 by the National Research Council to study a broad range of research on early learning and development and to explore the implications for the education and care of children ages…
Descriptors: Adult Child Relationship, Child Caregivers, Child Development, Cognitive Development