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Pizzolato, Jane Elizabeth; Olson, Avery B. – Review of Higher Education, 2016
Through a one year-long, qualitative study of welfare-to-work students, this study investigates the developing epistemologies of women enrolled in a community college CalWORKs program. We investigate how poverty as a macro-environment and the community college as a micro-environment influence participants' epistemological development. Findings…
Descriptors: Welfare Recipients, Welfare Services, Poverty, Epistemology
Potochnik, Tracie; Romans, Angela N. – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2016
Los Angeles has an educational ecosystem that is rich with partners committed to providing equitable access to learning opportunities for students. Throughout the 2014-2015 school year, the "Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University" (AISR) spent time meeting with a range of partners, including the Los Angeles Unified…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Cooperation, Public Schools, Partnerships in Education
Theodoulou, Photini; Avraamidou, Lucy; Vrasidas, Charalambos – Educational Media International, 2015
Drawing on the theories of symbolic interactionism, social constructivism, and flow, this research examines the integration of the electronic game of the World Food Programme of the UN "Food Force" in a unit on active citizenship and poverty eradication. The research was conducted in two ninth-grade classes of an urban high school in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Games, Affordances, Case Studies
Potochnik, Tracie; Romans, Angela N. – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2015
Los Angeles has an educational ecosystem that is rich with partners committed to providing equitable access to learning opportunities for students. Throughout the 2014-2015 school year, the "Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University" (AISR) spent time meeting with a range of partners, including the Los Angeles Unified…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Cooperation, Public Schools, Partnerships in Education
Essuman, Ato; Bosumtwi-Sam, Cynthia – International Journal of Educational Development, 2013
In an effort to address social imbalances and equity in Ghana's education delivery and to achieve her Education for All (EFA) agenda, some pro-poor programmes have been introduced. Among these is the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) that aims among others, at providing safety nets for the poor, increasing school enrolment in addition to…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Teacher Effectiveness, Elementary Schools, Rural Areas
Checkoway, Amy; Goodson, Barbara; Grindal, Todd; Hofer, Kerry – Abt Associates, 2016
As part of the federal Preschool Development Grant Program in late 2014, the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care (EEC) was awarded a Preschool Expansion Grant (referred to as the Massachusetts PEG program) to expand high-quality early childhood education to four-year-old children from low-income families. The Massachusetts PEG…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Grants, Early Childhood Education, Access to Education
Tarabini, Aina – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2008
Educational targeting has become one of the hegemonic mechanisms in the fight against poverty. Both international organisms and developing countries support targeting as one of the best strategies in order to simultaneously guarantee poverty reduction and economic growth, and consequently to tackle the challenges generated by globalisation. The…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Poverty, Foreign Countries, Educational Opportunities
Ross, Steven M.; McDonald, Aaron J.; Alberg, Marty; McSparrin-Gallagher, Brenda – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2007
This study was designed to examine the effects of a whole school reform, the Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP), specifically designed to raise academic achievement of at-risk urban middle school students by establishing an extended school day and year, a rigorous curriculum, after-school access to teachers, and increased family-school connections.…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Extended School Day, School Restructuring, Standardized Tests
Li, Manli – Online Submission, 2006
This paper presents the results of a formative evaluation of a young faculty development scholarship program conducted in teachers colleges in impoverished areas of China. In the paper we describe the implementation of the program, the utilization of scholarship by recipients, recipients' satisfaction, and outcome data. Based on these data we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Schools of Education, Females