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Rabia Majeed; Javed Iqbal; Zahoor ul Haq; Muhammad Faisal Shahzad – Evaluation Review, 2025
Maternal mortality, largely stemming from complications during pregnancy and childbirth, impacts poor expecting women with limited healthcare access in rural Pakistan. Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs), commonly implemented in developing nations, are designed to improve the well-being of vulnerable populations by focusing on health and education.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Access to Health Care, Empowerment
Zachary Hess – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Participation in higher education affords low-income students with a pathway out of poverty. The federally funded Upward Bound program aims to improve the college-going rate of low-income and first-generation students. Relevant studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of the program. There is a gap in the research regarding whether some types…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Low Income Students, Federal Programs, Summer Programs
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Aplin-Snider, Christina; Behnke, Lyn; Fulks, Elizabeth – Journal of Service-Learning in Higher Education, 2023
This descriptive study involving over 50 students, both undergraduate and graduate nursing students. A modified Community Service Attitudes Scale was given pre and post service-learning activity to the students. Students overwhelmingly reported an increase in their cultural awareness, their ability to work effectively with others and their feeling…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Access to Health Care, COVID-19, Pandemics
First Focus on Children, 2025
Universal voucher policies allow any student, regardless of their family income level or history of attending public schools, to be eligible to use public funding to attend private, often religious, schools or home schooling. From 2021 to 2025, the number of statewide universal voucher programs has gone from zero to thirteen. These efforts have…
Descriptors: Educational Vouchers, Private Schools, Educational Finance, Privatization
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Kegler, Michelle C.; Hermstad, April; Haardörfer, Regine; Arriola, Kimberly Jacob; Gauthreaux, Nicole; Tucker, Samantha; Nelson, Gary – Health Education & Behavior, 2023
As persistent inequities in health gained increased attention nationally due to COVID-19 and racial justice protests in 2020, it has become increasingly important to evaluate both the process and outcomes associated with coalition-based efforts to address health inequities. "The Two Georgias Initiative" supports coalitions in 11 rural…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Rural Areas, Health Promotion, Racism
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Linnell, J. Dusti; Case, Patty; Kraemer, Lauren – Journal of Extension, 2020
The Cooperative Extension National Framework for Health and Wellness calls on Extension professionals to operate in new ways that will shape "the context in which people grow, learn, work, and play" and to practice multidisciplinary and collaborative approaches in communities. In this article, we present three cases in Oregon as examples…
Descriptors: Extension Education, College Faculty, Extension Agents, Public Health
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Tian, Jian; Mao, Wei; Liao, Linchun; Zhou, Xinyi – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2021
The use of increasingly popularized information technology to improve education poverty and then promote the balanced development of education has become the development trend of world education. On the road to poverty alleviation, China has firmly grasped information technology to encourage school reform in areas with scarce educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle Schools, Online Courses, Educational Technology
World Bank, 2018
Educating children is a priority across the world, but low-income countries can face enormous challenges. Schools are often overcrowded and in disrepair. Teachers don't always show up or may not be qualified or interested in teaching. Parents hesitate to send children, especially girls, to schools that aren't close by or they may want to keep them…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Poverty, Private Schools, Access to Education
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Hasan, Amer; Jung, Haeil; Kinnell, Angela; Maika, Amelia; Nakajima, Nozomi; Pradhan, Menno – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2021
This paper examines the child development outcomes of two cohorts of children who were exposed to the same intervention at different points in time. One cohort was eligible to access playgroups during the first year of a five-year project cycle, beginning at age four. The other cohort became eligible to access these services during the third year…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Development, Intervention, Preschool Children
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Salifu, Inusah; Boateng, John Kwame; Kunduzore, Salifu Sandubil – Cogent Education, 2018
This study sought to examine the extent of contribution of school feeding programmes towards the achievement of the Free Compulsory Universal Basic Education (FCUBE) policy in countries. Based on a purposive sampling of a deprived rural community in northern Ghana, the study utilised the concurrent mixed method design relying mainly on documentary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Educational Policy, Access to Education
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Zhu, Hongqing – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2020
As a measure to eradicate poverty, education has become the choice of more and more countries in the world. The development of girls' education is an important means to break the intergenerational transmission of poverty. In the practice of poverty alleviation through supporting education, the Chinese government strives to solve the problem of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Womens Education, Poverty
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Handa, Sudhanshu; Seidenfeld, David; Davis, Benjamin; Tembo, Gelson – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2016
Accumulated evidence from dozens of cash transfer (CT) programs across the world suggests that there are few interventions that can match the range of impacts and cost-effectiveness of a small, predictable monetary transfer to poor families in developing countries. However, individual published impact assessments typically focus on only one…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Financial Support, Grants, Program Effectiveness
Luschei, Tom – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2017
Despite California's great wealth, child poverty places a drag on the state's educational performance. Disadvantaged children--including English learners, foster children, and the poor--do not receive the educational attention and services that they require to be successful. Although California's Local Control Funding Formula recognizes this…
Descriptors: Poverty, Disadvantaged Youth, Equal Education, Educational Equity (Finance)
Modi, Armene – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2017
This working paper will share the experience of Ashta No Kai (ANK), a grassroots nonprofit the author founded in 1998 in 10 villages in Shirur County, Maharashtra state, India, to promote the empowerment and education of women and girls in rural areas. The paper will, at first, examine the state of education in India including the Indian…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Females, Foreign Countries, Womens Education
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Knauer, Heather A.; Kagawa, Rose M. C.; García-Guerra, Armando; Schnaas, Lourdes; Neufeld, Lynnette M.; Fernald, Lia C. H. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2016
Conditional cash transfer programs (CCTs) have shown mixed effects on child development outcomes in the context of poverty. Direct parenting support integrated with CCTs may improve the effectiveness of CCTs for children's development, and benefits could occur via improvements in parenting practices or the home environment. Here, we use data from…
Descriptors: Child Development, Rural Areas, Mexicans, Parent Child Relationship
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