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  List of education articles by country - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of articles on education organized by country:
Underground Education in Poland During World War II (historical)
Education in the People's Republic of Poland (historical)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Education_by_country   (75 words)

  
 Research and innovation: Let the buyer beware   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Articles called "reviews of literature" and "meta-analyses" are dedicated to citing and summarizing all of the findings relevant to a given topic or area of study.
Open education was a particularly visible "bust." In a meta-analysis of 153 studies, Giacomia and Hedges (1982) found small negative effects in all areas of achievement and a substantially greater deficit in achievement motivation.
Educational innovations based on such research are adopted not because they afford the kind of education most parents want for their children but because they constitute what many educators believe to be a superior view of schooling (i.e., a learner-centered view).
www.education-consumers.com /articles/research_and_innovation.shtm   (15493 words)

  
 Education - Gifted Index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
While some of these articles are written specifically for educators, they can also benefit parents who are seeking to create or influence a program for their children.
Educators, business and industry, the government, and the general public believe our most able students must be computer literate for our nation to be competitive in the next generation.
Historically, tension has existed between gifted education and middle school education, leaving some advocates of each educational practice suspicious of the other, and leaving middle school students who are advanced in one or more dimensions of learning in a sort of educational no-man's-land.
www.kidsource.com /kidsource/pages/ed.gifted.html   (2950 words)

  
 Education Journals
As well as a current list of meetings and conferences; a list of deadlines for grant applications, papers and exchange programs; current facts and figures on public and private education; classified job listings.
Education Journal Annotations - A richly annotated list of periodicals whose focus is K-12 education, including both research journals and children's magazines.
Includes current issues in education with background information, a separate Teachers' Magazine, a job search engine for K-12 and higher education, and a very nice archival database of all of their published articles since 1989.
www.sabine.k12.la.us /vrschool/edtecjor.htm   (1182 words)

  
 Internet Public Library: Education
Education that takes place outside of traditional public or parochial school systems, as well as education programs that are offered as alternatives within formal educational systems and provide innovative and flexible instruction, curriculum, grading systems, degree requirements.
Education for international understanding, often includes the study of educational, social, political, and economic forces of international relations.
"Education International is a world-wide trade union organisation of education personnel, whose 23 million members represent all sectors of education from pre-school to university 284 national trade unions and associations in 148 countries and territories." The site is available in English, French, and Spanish.
www.ipl.org /div/aon/browse/edu00.00.00   (2040 words)

  
 NationMaster.com - Where Stats Come Alive!
You can also view profiles of individual countries including their maps and flags, use correlation reports and scatterplots to find relationships between variables, and refer to fully integrated encyclopedia with over 800,000 articles.
Below each country, you will see a link which tells you how many more maps are in our collection; click on this link and you will be directed to the map holdings page for that particular country.
In particular, up-to-date information on annual rate of growth listed in percentages (with Afghanistan leading the way at an astonishing 4.8%) and births per 1,000 people (Niger is #1 at 51 births), may start more than one debate about the world's overpopulation.
www.nationmaster.com   (3365 words)

  
 Gamasutra - Education
Education Features: 2006 IGF Student Showcase Q&A: Kim Jong Hwa (Palette) [03.20.06] This Q&A features one of this year's IGF Student Showcase winners, Kim Jong Hwa from Sung Kyun Kwan University of Korea, discussing his colorful feast for the eyes, Palette.
Education Features: 2006 IGF Student Showcase Q&A: The Yakuza (OrBlitz) [03.16.06] Today's Gamasutra IGF Student Showcase Q&A interviews The Yakuza from DigiPen Institute of Technology in Redmond, WA, who earned a spot as a Student Showcase winner with their speedy puzzle game OrBlitz.
Education Features: 2006 IGF Student Showcase Q&A: Full Sail Final Project (Colormental) [03.10.06] Continuing our profiles of the 2006 IGF Student Showcase winners, the interviewee for feature is the team, from Full Sail Real World Education, behind colorful puzzle platformer Colormental.
www.gamasutra.com /education   (1250 words)

  
 Education Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
It includes "academic, financial aid and career information...and conducts education awareness programs in middle schools, high schools and community agencies serving youth and adult populations throughout the Boston area." All their services are free.
This is a huge collection of "links to the history of education and childhood." The author has combed the Web and written excellent reviews of sites which detail historical education practices, methods of child rearing, and conditions of children’s lives throughout history and all over the globe.
Published by Educational Communications, Inc., this is the only recognition program in the education field where the ultimate consumers of education - the students - have the opportunity and responsibility to honor the teachers who have most significantly impacted their lives.
www.educationindex.com /educator   (5171 words)

  
 Links, Articles, Essays, and Opinions on K-12 Education
The authors observe that whereas curricula in the high-performing countries show a coherent progression in content, the typical U.S. curriculum is not focused, is highly repetitive across years, is not very demanding by international standards, and is incoherent...
This was a contribution to a discussion on the Kto15 list in August, 2001.
Education in Singapore, by Chester E. Finn Jr.
www.cims.nyu.edu /~braams/links   (13360 words)

  
 Education World ® - Lesson Planning: China: An Ancient Country in a Modern World
China, a country about the same size as the United States, is located on the continent of Asia.
When students' lists are complete, discuss the results of their searches.
Then provide students with a list of animals found in China, such as the dolphin, python, monkey, tiger, deer, and alligator, and ask them to place each animal in its correct Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species.
www.education-world.com /a_lesson/lesson099.shtml   (1325 words)

  
 Teachers-preschool, kindergarten, elementary, middle, and secondary
Traditional education programs for kindergarten and elementary school teachers include courses—designed specifically for those preparing to teach—in mathematics, physical science, social science, music, art, and literature, as well as prescribed professional education courses, such as philosophy of education, psychology of learning, and teaching methods.
Teacher education programs are now required to include classes in the use of computers and other technologies in order to maintain their accreditation.
The number of teachers employed is dependent as well on State and local expenditures for education and on the enactment of legislation to increase the quality and scope of public education.
stats.bls.gov /oco/ocos069.htm   (3932 words)

  
 Tropical Rainforest Conservation - mongabay.com
Scientists have identified 20 potential extinction hotspots where hunting and human-caused habitat destruction are set to suffer significant declines in animal populations in coming years.
Late last week, countries that export and export tropical timber reached a 10-year agreement to help promote the sustainable development of forests while fighting illegal logging.
The agreement, which was signed by 33 producing and 26 consuming countries, also aims to improve forest law enforcement and governance, specifically addressing illegal logging which is quite prevalent and extremely costly for developing countries.
www.mongabay.com   (4274 words)

  
 Education:Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
For countries, the potential benefits lie in economic growth and the development of shared values that underpin social cohesion.
The main purpose of the thematic review on adult learning is to understand adults’ access and participation in education and training and to enhance policies and approaches to increase incentives for adults to undertake learning activities in OECD countries.
The first Forum on the theme of The Challenges for Education in a Global Economy, co-hosted with the Chilean Ministry of Education, was held in Santiago on 24-25 October 2005.
www.oecd.org /topic/0,2686,en_2649_37455_1_1_1_1_37455,00.html   (863 words)

  
 Homeschool World: Practical Homeschooling Articles: A Dickens of an Idea
In contrast, the traditional Puritan and Victorian method of learning moral values was a matter of memorizing lists of dos and don'ts and keeping the child's day so ordered that he never had time to be bad.
Interspersed with these books is a list of other books (not written by Christians) that are important for understanding the root of modern thought and attitudes.
The list is not something to tackle all at once, but a resource for a lifetime of reading and study.
www.home-school.com /Articles/AndreolaDickens.html   (1588 words)

  
 New mad cow woes
On Jan. 31., after the detection of 25 mad cows, Germany announced plans to slaughter and destroy 400,000 elderly cows, which, due to the long incubation period, are most prone to the disease.
Beef consumption in Germany plunged 50 percent since November, and 34 countries have banned German beef imports.
Italian farmers have protested in Rome, demanding government compensation for losses caused by Italy's country's mad cow scare.
whyfiles.org /012mad_cow   (1109 words)

  
 Learning Disabilities OnLine - LD-Indepth: Individualized Education Program
A summary report from special education attorney Dee Alpert based on reports from advocates, attorneys, and past or present special education staff around the country, that falsification of documents and forgery of signatures may be common and widespead.
The IEP is a quasi-contractual agreement to guide, orchestrate, and document specially designed instruction for each student with a disability based on his or her unique academic, social, and behavioral needs.
When utilizing information in these articles, be sure to incorporate the changes described in Individualized Education Programs and IDEA 97.
www.ldonline.org /ld_indepth/iep/iep.html   (952 words)

  
 A few links related to Statistics Education
CHANCE Database A Data Base for abstracts of articles in current newspapers and journals also concerning teaching statistics or probability Contains info on how statistics are used in daily life, providing lots of examples suitable for use in teaching of statistics.
Teaching-statistics This list is for those concerned with the initial teaching of statistics in all phases of education.
MendelWeb Homepage MendelWeb is an educational resource for teachers and students interested in the origins of classical genetics, introductory data analysis, elementary plant science, and the history and literature of science.
noppa5.pc.helsinki.fi /links.html   (9120 words)

  
 Education World® - Teacher Resources : Education Employment Opportunities : General Resources
3 Week Study/Visit Awards to Japan The Fulbright Memorial Fund Teacher Education Program (FMF) is an opportunity fo US primary and secondary teachers and administrators to participate in a three-week study visit to Japan.
A Career Choice Series - Teaching Source of teacher career information, with a list of education programs, teaching facts and steps to becoming a teacher.
AAEE Educator E-Fair The AAEE Educator E-Fair is designed for K-12 school systems seeking to recruit and hire educators for all positions in the 2003-2004 academic year.
db.education-world.com /perl/browse?cat_id=1853   (506 words)

  
 Education World® - *Arts & Humanities : Performance Arts : Music : General Resources
Australian Alps Infoplease Find geographical information about this Australian mountain range in the southeast part of the country.
Cichlid Center Find a general profile of this fish as well as descriptions of the species in Africa and South America.
Composers Net Directory of past and present classical music composers provides a searchable index of profiles and an archive of articles on music history.
db.education-world.com /perl/browse?cat_id=1252   (376 words)

  
 The Guild of Metalsmiths
Our bimonthly meetings usually include demonstrations; we have hands on training workshops; conferences bring in demonstrators from all over the country; and somtimes we just get together in small groups for an educational party, byoh (bring your own hammer).
Pete Stanaitis has compiled an Index of educational articles in the "Metalsmith"
Founded in 1856, one of the country's oldest craft schools.
www.metalsmith.org /edu   (352 words)

  
 developerWorks : Java technology : Technical library
The Java technology library includes a wide range of technical articles and tips, tutorials, standards, and IBM Redbooks.
Browse this comprehensive list of articles about Java technology.
View this listing of all current open standards and specifications that define the Java technology family of protocols.
www-128.ibm.com /developerworks/views/java/library.jsp   (109 words)

  
 Education World® : Books in Education : Summer Reading
Thanks to our readers' contributions, we have gathered summer reading lists by grade, along with reviews of new books, interviews with favorite authors, and lots of ideas for summer projects to extend reading -- projects for kids to do with friends or on their own and projects for families to do together!
Don't miss another Education World resource: Summer Reading Lists from schools around the world.
Readers can explore the many meanings of friendship in a handful of recent titles.
www.educationworld.com /summer_reading   (195 words)

  
 FindArticles - News, Magazines, Reference - On Health, Fitness, Business, Home, Arts, Computers
Search millions of articles from leading academic, industry and general interest publications.
Print or share any article with one click, on every article page.
LookSmart Solutions: Auto · Cities · Education · FindArticles™ · Food · Furl.net · Health · Home Living · Money · Music · Recreation · Sports · Style · Tech and Games · Travel
www.findarticles.com   (237 words)

  
 School Issues - Education Articles - Education Topics - School Topics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
We invite you to learn more about elementary and secondary education and SchoolMatch.
The following is a selected listing of articles written about SchoolMatch.
"Factors that Parents Want in their Children's Schools." Education Research Service Spectrum.
www.schoolmatch.com /ppsi/smart.cfm   (1026 words)

  
 Tim Wise's ZNet HomePage
Tim Wise is the Director of the newly-formed Association for White Anti-Racist Education (AWARE) in Nashville, Tennessee.
Not-So-Little White Lies: Education and the Myth of Black Anti-Intellectualism (11/28/02)
List all ZNet articles by or about Tim Wise
www.zmag.org /bios/homepage.cfm?authorID=96   (454 words)

  
 Schools, Colleges, Universities, Alumni and Genealogy Education
Worldwide listings of Colleges and Universities from the National Academic
Serves to operate the local public primary and secondary schools.
- Lists of school districts in the United States
www.academic-genealogy.com /schoolscollegesuniversities.htm   (845 words)

  
 English Club ~ Learn English | Teach English
ESL is used when people learn English in an English-speaking country.
EFL is used when people learn English in a non-English speaking country.
But there are some important technical considerations for those who teach English in these different situations.
www.englishclub.com   (390 words)

  
 PERSONAL WEB PAGES - home.att.net
Shortcuts provides a list of hypertext links for members who know exactly where they want to go.
ATandT, ATandT and Globe Design, and ATandT Worldnet® Service are registered trademarks and service marks of ATandT Corp. in the United States and other countries.
The other marks which appear on this Web Site may be marks of third parties that are not affiliated with ATandT.
home.att.net   (372 words)

  
 Article Library
Each list item is a link to a matching article.
Environmental Health Science in the U.S. Nursing Practice and Education in the USA
The Benefits of Further Education in the UK Studying Genetics in the UK The Design & Art Direction Awards
www.studyoverseas.com /edlist.htm   (531 words)

  
 The Patrin Web Journal - Articles by Country
here are more than twelve million Roma outside of India located in many countries around the world, whose origins began on the Indian subcontinent over one thousand years ago.
They have dispersed worldwide, despite persecution and oppression through the centuries.
articles should ease searches for country-specific information about the Roma.
www.geocities.com /~patrin/countries.htm   (155 words)

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