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Brusi, Rima – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2022
In April 2018, somebody painted over a mural in the "Julia de Burgos" public school's cafeteria, turning the wall into a blank, off-white slate. The mural's erasure symbolically encapsulates a combination of forces that are behind the radical transformation of public schools and colleges in Puerto Rico: the colonial relationship the…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Public Colleges, Colonialism, Educational History
UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning, 2023
This Education Sector Analysis is conducted in the context of potential stability resulting in the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan; and the unforeseen impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis evaluates both the accomplishments and the challenges within the education sector in South Sudan,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Governance, Conflict, COVID-19
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Ressa, Theodoto W. – International Journal of Modern Education Studies, 2021
COVID-19 pandemic has eroded gains towards Kenya Vision 2030's poverty eradication goal by denying Kenyan children and youth with disabilities access to (quality) education. Situational analysis on the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on education of primary and secondary school-age individuals from March 2020 to December 2020 reveal that the education…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Students with Disabilities, Access to Education
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Mutsau, Shepard; Billiat, Ednah – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
Disasters have become a déjàvu in many societies globally. The interaction between climate change and the ever increasing levels of poverty increase community vulnerability to disasters which weaken community resilience to disaster impacts. Such a scenario demands development practitioners, planners and scholarship to find novel ways of increasing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Risk Management, Natural Disasters, Poverty
Baker, Bruce D. – Network for Public Education, 2018
In July of 2018, the Education Research Alliance for New Orleans released a comprehensive, summative longitudinal report on the effects on student outcomes of the package of reforms implemented in New Orleans following hurricane Katrina in the fall of 2005. This policy brief reviews the findings of this report by Douglas Harris and Matthew Larsen,…
Descriptors: Natural Disasters, Educational Policy, Educational Change, Academic Achievement
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Deterding, Nicole M. – Sociology of Education, 2015
Nearly all young people in the United States aspire to a college degree, but many fail to complete college in a timely manner. Does this lack of attainment reflect abandoned college plans? I analyze mixed-methods data from a five-year study of 700 low-income mothers at two Louisiana community colleges. Hurricane Katrina displaced respondents and…
Descriptors: Poverty, Low Income Groups, Mixed Methods Research, Mothers
Vallas, Paul – Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2014
In this essay, Paul Vallas--education reform expert and key advisor to the government of Haiti in developing its national education plan--discusses his plan for Haiti. The paper explores the successes and challenges of education reform in Haiti, before and after the earthquake that devastated the nation in 2010. The essay describes the…
Descriptors: Natural Disasters, Foreign Countries, Emergency Programs, Educational Planning