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Rossignoli, Serena; Riggall, Anna – Education Development Trust, 2019
This report examines four not-for-profit school chains, run by non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in low-income contexts. These are Fe y Alegría, the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (better known by its acronym BRAC), Gyan Shala and Zambia Open Community Schools. Three of these organisations offer education at no cost (Fe y Alegría, BRAC…
Descriptors: Nonprofit Organizations, Low Income Groups, Nongovernmental Organizations, Access to Education
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Melchiori, Ligia Ebner; de Souza, Deisy G.; de Rose, Julio C. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2000
First graders (n=5), preschoolers (n=5), special education first-graders (n=5), and adults (n=8) in Brazil received a reading program in which they learned to match printed to dictated words and to construct (copy) printed words. The students not only learned to match the training words but also learned to read them. (Contains references.)…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Beginning Reading, Disabilities, Elementary Education
Figueiredo, Eliane L.; Sisto, Fermino F. – 1997
The evolution of creative thought was examined, an examination that resulted in the construction of universal criteria for analysis and detailed evidence for the evolution of novelty, i.e. how children create knowledge. The collected data came from 200 students from the United States and 200 from Brazil. Each of the 10 age groups (from 4 to 13…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Comparative Analysis, Creative Thinking, Creativity