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Analysis and Critique of the Segmented Assimilation Model for the Educational Mobility of the Second Generation in Different Countries and from Multiple Scholars' Perspectives
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Montero-Sieburth, Martha A. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
The paper (1) analyzes the segmented assimilation model for educational mobility as it has been used across different countries starting from its initial use by Gans (2006) and later developed by Portes and Zhou in 1993 to the present; (2) highlights the resulting similarities or differences arising from its use taken from different…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, Cross Cultural Studies, College Faculty, Models
Multimedia Technology. An Encyclopedia Publisher's Perspective.
Cook, Peter – Learning Tomorrow: Journal of the Apple Education Advisory Council, 1986
This paper describes the Grolier Publishing Company's development of its encyclopedic text database by editing the machine-readable data files from which the Academic American Encyclopedia was printed, and its longer-term objective of creating a multimedia encyclopedia when the technology for a viable delivery system becomes available. Topics…
Descriptors: Computer System Design, Databases, Encyclopedias, Futures (of Society)
Superintendents at the Workstation?
Vaughan, Larry – Learning Tomorrow. Journal of the Apple Education Advisory Council, 1986
This paper considers the possible creation of communications networks for school superintendents, and discusses EdLink, a pilot joint venture among Apple and GEISCO (General Electric Information Services Corporation), the joint developers of AppleLink, and the office of the New Hampshire Governor's Excellence Initiative. Arguing that EdLink…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Databases, Electronic Mail, Elementary Secondary Education