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Ige, Akindele Matthew – Education 3-13, 2014
Inspite of the fact that primary education forms the foundation on which education at the secondary and tertiary levels rests, the issue of poverty is undermining its roles in Nigeria. In this paper, this issue of poverty of primary education was examined, from the perspectives of its history, scope, indicators, in terms of inadequacy of resource…
Descriptors: Poverty, Elementary Education, Educational Resources, Educational History
Goldhaber, Dan; Lavery, Lesley; Theobald, Roddy – Center for Education Data & Research, 2014
Policymakers aiming to close the well-documented achievement gap between advantaged and disadvantaged students have increasingly turned their attention to issues of teacher quality. A number of studies have demonstrated that teachers are inequitably distributed across student subgroups by input measures like experience and qualifications, as well…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Performance Based Assessment, Achievement Gap, Advantaged
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Du, Yuhong; Hu, Yongmei – Chinese Education and Society, 2008
Since the 1980s, the increasing cost of education has been a global trend, and there is a growing demand for increasing efficiency in different countries. As a result, education economists began focusing on the issue of efficient allocation of educational resources and borrowed production function from economics to study educational production…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Academic Achievement, Multiple Regression Analysis, Rural Areas