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Demystifying Success Factors for Students in Urban Settings Kindergarten-Grade 12The author presents “seven research-based factors or practices that together promise to create high-quality education for urban children,” providing hope for even the poorest and most disadvantaged students. -
Discerning Shapes, Reading Words Like Faces - The Current Science of Literacy and its Implications for Low-Income Countries Kindergarten-Grade 8"Despite much donor investment in low-income countries, student populations may fail to learn even the first steps of literacy. To some extent this may be due to teaching materials and methods that were developed for high-income students who get more... -
Health and Disease Trends in Low Income Economies - Can We Escape the Double Burden of Disease? Lifelong"Demographic transitions can explain public health phenomena and predict the types of health problems countries will experience. Developing countries are suffering from infectious diseases which kill a disproportionate number of children, but at the same... -
Reaching the Unreached - A Challenge for Filipino Educators Kindergarten-TertiaryMany Filipino children lack the quality education necessary to become competitive members of the globalized workforce. "This study aimed at determining the position of marginalized youth in terms of...functional literacy and numeracy skills." -
Signed and Sealed, but Not Delivered - A Socio-Political View of the Promises and Trials of Universal Education Tertiary-Lifelong"The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has prioritized the issue of equal access to education. That priority includes the empowerment of women through girls’ education and gender equality, education in emergencies and post-crisis education,...