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Slow degrees, school vs jail, and cash 4 class
Three new economics papers offer interesting findings on important facets of education policy. Increasing Time to Baccalaureate Degree in the United States by John Bound, Michael Lovenheim, Sarah Turn… more →
Andrew Leigh's Archived Blog 2004-2010
UAE SEEN AS ONE OF THE WORLD’S TOP FIVE EDUCATION DESTINATIONS
wrote 3 weeks ago: UAE SEEN AS ONE OF THE WORLD’S TOP FIVE EDUCATION DESTINATIONS. … more →
Post Campus XXXVII: 25/Nov/12- Closed and Open Credits in Undergraduate Programmes in Bangladesh
wrote 1 month ago: Post Campus XXXVII: Closed and Open Credits in Undergraduate Programmes in Bangladesh Star Campus, T … more →
Post Campus XXIV: 2012 05 27 May: The Importance of Effort over Talent
wrote 1 month ago: Star Campus of The Daily Star Sun 27 May 2012; Page 14-15 in Print Link: http://www.thedailystar.net … more →
Post Campus VII- 2011 08 14 Aug- The Debate of Small Class-Size
wrote 1 month ago: Post Campus VII- 2011 08 14 Aug- The Debate of Small Class-Size Daily Star: Weekly Campus Sun 14 Aug … more →
Education and income inequality in Australia
wrote 1 month ago: Human capitalism and trends in US income inequality I would be the first to admit that I have an abs … more →
Attacking educational disadvantage through school funding (co-authored with Timothy Cameron)
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wrote 1 month ago: “…all students must have access to an acceptable international standard of education, regardless of … more →
Caroline Hoxby on Expanding College Enrollment for Low-income High-achieving Students
wrote 2 months ago: Professor Caroline Hoxby from Stanford gave a talk about her project with Sarah Turner (Virginia) on … more →
Poor (Indigenous) Economics - Part I
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wrote 4 months ago: Last Tuesday (January 29th) I was lucky enough to have scored an invite to a conference organised by … more →
Freedom and education: some thoughts and discussion
wrote 5 months ago: I thoroughly enjoyed Nick Stevenson’s book, Freedom – enjoyed it too much to quote withi … more →
Data - Information – Knowledge Or the future of universities
wrote 7 months ago: Discussing the possibilities of OER with some visiting colleagues of UNISA, we started to speculate … more →
ECE and the validation of 'western' views of childhood
wrote 7 months ago: Marilyn Fleer writes that: “…what has become valued within the profession of early childhood educati … more →
The income premium for high school completers - Variation across time, place, sex and race (I)
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wrote 9 months ago: Academics are supposed to take their time and come to well-reasoned and well-thought out conclusions … more →
Obstructing the holistic approach to child education
wrote 10 months ago: Dr Elly Singer once observed (interestingly and importantly!) that ‘educare’, as a conce … more →
An evolutionary model of child development has become normalized in ECE
wrote 1 year ago: “In many European heritage communities, a significant amount of programme support material available … more →
Performance-based pay? Based on what???!!!
wrote 1 year ago: Honestly, what I want to know is: When are the politicians of this country going to get performance- … more →
It is a tough job, but somebody has to (want to) do it
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wrote 1 year ago: Both my parents were teachers (one in the social sciences, the other in maths). This has no doubt co … more →
If you’re happy and you know it stay in school – Part II
wrote 1 year ago: In the previous post, I looked at the relationship between a student’s self reported wellbeing … more →
The shifting discourses around education
wrote 1 year ago: In an article that considers the shifting discourses around, attitudes towards, and expectations of … more →
If you're happy and you know it stay in school - Part I
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wrote 1 year ago: At the workshop that I mentioned in my previous post, there was a fair bit of discussion on how to i … more →
