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Avellaneda, Claudia N.; Dávalos, Eleonora – American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2017
This study seeks to explain macrolevel drivers of adolescent fertility rate using a panel data set derived from 17 Latin American countries over a period of 16 years (1997-2012). While many studies of adolescent fertility have focused on individual-level explanations, this study explores whether adolescent fertility rate is correlated to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Sex Education, Comprehensive School Health Education, Birth
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Green, David A.; Little, Deandra – International Journal for Academic Development, 2016
Educational development (also called academic or faculty development) has been described as fragmented, disconnected, and a "family of strangers," due mostly to the different academic backgrounds of its members. In this paper, the authors report on a survey of over 1000 educational developers from 38 countries on six continents. To help…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Profiles, Comparative Education, Demography
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Lew, Jamie – Teacher Education and Practice, 2012
Children of immigrants are the fastest-growing segment of the nation's children population. According to the U.S. Census (2007), approximately 16.4 million children, more than 1 in 5, are children of immigrants, most of whom are school-age population (aged 3-17 years). This large demographic shift is fundamentally changing the nation's schools and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigration, Immigrants, Teacher Education