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Bonvillian, William B.; Sarma, Sanjay E. – MIT Press, 2021
The American dream promised that if you worked hard, you could move up, with well-paying working-class jobs providing a gateway to an ever-growing middle class. Today, however, we have increasing inequality, not economic convergence. Technological advances are putting quality jobs out of reach for workers who lack the proper skills and training.…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Working Class, Job Training, Educational Innovation
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Rombaoa, Jasmine Sabrina J. – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2019
One of the characteristics of a 21st-century learner is being technologically adept. Technology has a significant contribution to modern-day education in the heyday of learning management systems (LMS) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The integration of technology in education aims to help learners adapt to the fast-changing world that…
Descriptors: Costs, Management Systems, Technology Integration, Educational Technology
van Stee, Elena G. – Grantee Submission, 2022
Objective: This article identifies how social class differences in undergraduates' relationships with their parents shaped their responses to educational disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Background: The mechanisms through which parents transmit class advantages to children are often hidden from view and therefore remain imperfectly…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Social Class, Undergraduate Students, COVID-19
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Prinsloo, Mastin; Sasman, Felicity – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2015
Research on education and technology has sometimes examined model rather than typical practices, and has thus presented an idealized notion of what such resources might offer to situated users in education. This article asks what happens when particular digital resources, designed for one purpose, or carrying particular expectations regarding…
Descriptors: Literacy, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, African Languages
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Kempner, Ken; Castro, Claudio de Moura – Comparative Education Review, 1988
Compares education of lower-middle and working classes in Brazil and the United States to examine effects of the educational system in supporting the changing technological infrastructure. Concludes that both countries need to improve access and minimize stratification to make their systems of education for mid-level technology more equitable.…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Educational Technology, Lower Class Students, Lower Middle Class
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Waller, Tim – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2007
This paper will present a Marxist analysis of the current function and role of information and communication technology (ICT) in education, with specific reference to schooling in the UK. Over the past five years the UK government has spent in excess of 2.5bn British Pounds on ICT equipment for schools and in "training" teachers to use…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Working Class, Information Technology, Educational Technology
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Marsh, Jackie – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2004
In many analyses of children's "emergent literacy" (Clay, 1966) practices, there is little acknowledgement of children's engagement in techno-literacy practices. This article discusses findings from a survey undertaken in a working-class community in the north of England which aimed to identify the "emergent techno-literacy"…
Descriptors: Young Children, Foreign Countries, Emergent Literacy, Computer Uses in Education
Chronicle of Higher Education, 2004
"Chronicle of Higher Education" presents an abundant source of news and information for college and university faculty members and administrators. This March 12, 2004 issue of "Chronicle of Higher Education" includes the following articles: (1) "Fewer Stem Cells Available, NIH Says" (Brainard, Jeffrey); (2)…
Descriptors: Current Events, World Affairs, Higher Education, Scientific Research