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Cross-National Variations in Student Employment and Academic Performance: The Roles of National Context and International Law
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Byun, Soo-yong; Henck, Adrienne; Post, David – Comparative Education Review, 2014
Most existing research indicates that working students perform more poorly than do full-time students on standardized achievement tests. However, we know there are wide international variations in this gap. This article shows that national and international contexts help to explain the gap in the academic performance between working and nonworking…
Descriptors: Student Employment, Academic Achievement, Middle School Students, Grade 8
Schools as Agencies of Protection in Namibia and Swaziland: Can They Prevent Dropout and Child Labor in the Context of HIV/AIDS and Poverty?
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Nordtveit, Bjorn Harald – Comparative Education Review, 2010
This article addresses a particular area of research in the field of education and child protection: the protective role of schools in the contexts of HIV/AIDS and poverty. Such adverse situations may lead children not to enroll in school or to drop out of school and subsequently to be subjected to abusive child labor and, in some cases, the worst…
Descriptors: Poverty, Child Abuse, Caregivers, Child Labor
School Incentive Programs and Children's Activities: The Case of Bangladesh
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Arends-Kuenning, Mary; Amin, Sajeda – Comparative Education Review, 2004
To examine the impact of school incentive programs on children's time allocation, this article reports the authors' investigation of time-use data collected in two Bangladeshi villages in 1992, 1995, and 1996; in-depth interviews conducted in 1995; responses to two village censuses collected in 1992 and 1995; and data from an education survey…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Incentives, Attendance, Interviews
Education and the Child Labor Paradox Today. Essay Review of "Children on the Streets of the Americas" (Roslyn A. Mickelson, editor); "The Policy Analysis of Child Labor: A Comparative Study" (Christiaan Grootaert, Harry Anthony Patrinos); "What Works for Working Children?" (Jo Boyden, Birgitta Ling, William Myers); "Child Employment in Britain: A Social and Psychological Analysis" (Sandy Hobbs, Jim McKechnie); and "Bud, Not Buddy" (Christopher Paul Curtis).
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Post, David – Comparative Education Review, 2001
Reviews five books on child labor, published 1997-2000, with reference to the International Labour Organization's 1999 convention that retreats from its previous hard stance on child labor. Discusses street children; public policy on child labor, child welfare, and school attendance; types of children's work; and working children as agents…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Book Reviews, Child Labor, Child Welfare
Social Movements and the Transformation of National Policy: Street and Working Children in Brazil.
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Dewees, Anthony; Klees, Steven J. – Comparative Education Review, 1995
Discusses the problems faced by street and working children in Brazil, problems often exacerbated by the educational system. Describes how grass-roots activism led to enactment of an exceptional progressive law protecting children's rights. Examines the failure of technical rationality as the foundation of mainstream educational planning. (SV)
Descriptors: Activism, Child Advocacy, Child Labor, Children
Household Constraints on Schooling by Gender: Empirical Evidence from Ethiopia.
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Rose, Pauline; Al-Samarrai, Samer – Comparative Education Review, 2001
Examines individual and household characteristics that affect the probability of a boy or girl attending and completing primary school in two regions of Ethiopia. Finds that school attendance was related to household wealth, parents' education, and child's nutritional status, while completion was affected more by economic constraints and, for…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Access to Education, Child Labor, Educational Attainment