Girls’ schooling and women’s literacy: schooling targets alone won’t reach learning goals

The Temporal Expectations of Schooling and Literacy Learning Jermaines Story

Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy 56 (5) February 2013 doi :10.1002 /JA AL.157 © 2013 International Reading Association (pp. 400– 408) 400 “M right grade is 11th grade.” Unfortunately, as he speaks these words, Jermaine, at age 17, has again been placed in the ei ghth grade and is headed for yet another retention at the end of the school year. Multiple retentions, being overage, not keepin...

Age and schooling effects on early literacy and phoneme awareness.

Previous research on age and schooling effects is largely restricted to studies of children who begin formal schooling at 6years of age, and the measures of phoneme awareness used have typically lacked sensitivity for beginning readers. Our study addresses these issues by testing 4 to 6year-olds (first 2years of formal schooling in the United Kingdom) on a sensitive dynamic measure of phoneme a...

Learning Schooling Behavior from Observation

Agent-based simulation is a valuable tool for biologists studying animal behavior, however constructing models for simulation is often a time-consuming manual task, and validation of these models requires a principled approach. We present a framework for using machine learning techniques to automatically construct behaviors from tracking data of live animals from video that can be run in a simu...

Girls ’ Schooling , Women ’ s Autonomy and Fertility Change in South

Girls in Gansu, China: Expectations and aspirations for secondary schooling

Gender stratification in education is declining in China, but some recent research suggests that girls' schooling is still vulnerable in poor rural areas. This chapter investigates girls' educational vulnerability in Gansu, one of China's poorest provinces. Specifically, it analyzes the Gansu Survey of Children and Families, a multisite survey that interviewed 2,000 rural children, along with t...