Education and Social Protection Systems in Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Countries. MEDPRO Technical Report No. 20/January 2013

This report assesses the current status of the education and social protection systems in 11 southern and eastern Mediterranean countries. It compares these countries using various education indicators and attempts to highlight the main differences in the social protection systems among the countries using qualitative analysis. The report finds that despite the differences among the countries, they share a common feature: when measured by the UN Development Programme’s Human Development Index (HDI), their inequality-adjusted values are significantly lower than their HDI values and ranks when not taking inequality into account. Nevertheless, significant improvements have been achieved in all the quantitative indicators for education, while the qualitative performance is still modest in the majority of the countries studied. As to the social protection aspect, the research reveals that various social protection programmes are being adopted in the 11 countries. As most of their financing is covered by government budgets, however, this places a high fiscal burden on them. Yet few of the countries (Turkey being the most notable) are trying to improve the sustainability of their social insurance schemes.

Special Education and the Risk of Becoming Less Educated in Germany and the United States. CES Germany & Europe Working Papers, No. 05.1, 13 December, 2004

Over the twentieth century, a growing group of students has been transferred into considerably expanded special education systems. These programs serve children with diagnosed impairments and disabilities and students with a variety of learning difficulties. Children and youth “with special educational needs” constitute a heterogeneous group with social, ethnic, linguistic, and physical disadvantages. An increasingly large percentage of those students at risk of leaving school without credentials participate in special education, a highly legitimated low status (and stigmatizing) school form. While most countries commit themselves to school integration or inclusive education to replace segregated schools and separate classes, cross-national and regional comparisons of special education’s diverse student bodies show considerable disparities in their (1) rates of classification, (2) provided learning opportunities, and (3) educational attainments. Analyzing special education demographics and organizational structures indicates which children and youth are most likely to grow up less educated and how educational systems distribute educational success and failure. Findings from a German-American comparison show that which students bear the greatest risk of becoming less educated depends largely on definitions of “special educational needs” and the institutionalization of special education systems.

How Do Second-Generation Immigrant Students Access Higher Education? The Importance of Vocational Routes to Higher Education in Switzerland, France, and Germany

We analyse the access to different institutional pathways to higher education for second-generation students, focusing on youths that hold a higher-education entrance certificate. The alternative vocational pathway appears to compensate to some degree, compared to the traditional academic one, for North-African and Southern-European youths in France, those from Turkey in Germany, and to a lesser degree those from Portugal, Turkey, Ex-Yugoslavia, Albania/Kosovo in Switzerland. This is not the case in Switzerland for Western-European, Italian, and Spanish youths who indeed access higher education via the academic pathway more often than Swiss youths. Using youth panel and survey data, multinomial models are applied to analyse these pathway choices.

Report of the commissioners appointed ... to inquire concerning charities in England [and Wales] for the education of the poor ...

Set consists of 32 reports, together with indexes and digests, pub. in Reports and papers of the House of Commons, 1819-1843. cf. General index to the bills, reports, accounts and other papers printed by order of the House of Commons: 1801-1832, p. 144; and 1832-1844, p. 218.

College and university public education in the Caribbean.

"Reprinted by permission from The Caribbean: contemporary education, University of Florida Press, 1960."

Spanish-English bilingual education in the U.S. : current issues, resources, and research priorities /

"An investigation commissioned by the National Institute of Education...completed in 1974."

The Condition of bilingual education in the nation : a report from the Secretary of Education to the President and the Congress.

Description based on: 1982.

A history of education in New Mexico. Pertinent advice to students. Education and its relations to the discovery, conquest, civilization and colonization of New Mexico; the minister of God and the teacher,

Mode of access: Internet.

Preparing Mexican Americans for mathematics- and science-based fields : a guide for developing school and college intervention models /

"Prepared with funding from the National Institute of Education, U.S. Department of Education under contract no. NIE 400-83-0023"--T.p. verso.

Alcohol and drug abuse in medical education /

"Proceedings of the National Conference on Medical Education in Alcohol and Drug Abuse, jointly sponsored by the Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse and the Career Teacher Program in Alcohol and Drug Abuse (ADAMHA) November 5-6, 1977, Washington, D.C.": p. 75-131.