Educational inequality in apartheid South Africa

M McKeever - American Behavioral Scientist, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article, I explore the utility of effectively maintained inequality theory in examining
educational inequality in South Africa at the end of the apartheid era. As an obviously …

[PDF][PDF] Literacy, foundation learning and assessment in developing countries

S Nag, S Chiat, C Torgerson… - Education …, 2014 - assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
Executive summary Developing countries face distinct challenges in providing access to
quality education. Educational provision also varies markedly in terms of teacher training …

Perspectives of dropped-out children on their dropping out from public secondary schools in rural Pakistan

AW Mughal, J Aldridge, M Monaghan - International Journal of Educational …, 2019 - Elsevier
The world can only meet prescribed educational targets of the Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs) if all boys and girls complete free, equitable and quality primary and …

Who makes it to secondary school? Determinants of transition to secondary schools in rural India

G Siddhu - International Journal of Educational Development, 2011 - Elsevier
Despite considerable progress made, a significant proportion of children continue to drop
out before reaching secondary school in India. This study investigates factors influencing …

School dropout at the basic education level in rural Cambodia: Identifying its causes through longitudinal survival analysis

F No, K Taniguchi, Y Hirakawa - International Journal of Educational …, 2016 - Elsevier
This study sought to identify the causes of school dropout in Cambodia by following three
student cohorts (grades 1–4, 4–7, and 7–9) over a period of 3 years. The results showed that …

Six Global Lessons on How Family, School, and Community Engagement Can Transform Education.

EM Morris, L Nóra - Center for Universal Education at The Brookings …, 2024 - ERIC
This report is the result of the participation of hundreds of students, families, school
educators, and researchers who dedicated their time and energy to investigating the critical …

The quality of equity? Reframing gender, development and education in the post-2020 landscape

S Baily, HB Holmarsdottir - Gender and Education, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The year 2015 marks the twentieth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women
in Beijing, with a goal to contribute to gender equality globally. As scholars continue in their …

Children's daily travel to school in Johannesburg-Soweto, South Africa: geography and school choice in the Birth to Twenty cohort study

J De Kadt, SA Norris, B Fleisch, L Richter… - Children's …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
This paper has two aims: to explore approaches to the measurement of children's daily
travel to school in a context of limited geospatial data availability and to provide data …

Problematising the concept epistemological access with regard to foundation phase education towards quality schooling

L Du Plooy, M Zilindile - South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2014 - scielo.org.za
This paper comprises a brief study of the literature about the concept epistemological
access, a fairly under-researched topic in South African education. It is aimed specifically at …

The cost of repetition in South Africa

S Van Der Berg, G Wills, R Selkirk, C Adams… - 2019 - papers.ssrn.com
An almost unnoticed problem in the South African education system is the high rate of grade
repetition. In this report, a combination of household and administrative datasets is used to …