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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
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
The Waning Effect of Sibship Composition on School Attainment in Hong Kong.
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Post, David; Pong, Suet-ling – Comparative Education Review, 1998
Analysis of 1981 and 1991 Hong Kong census data confirms the waning effects of sibship size, sex composition, and birth order on the stratification of educational opportunities within the household, particularly with regard to daughters' access to education. These changes are related to increases in mothers' education, but more importantly, to a…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Educational Supply, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment Influences
Educational Attainment and the Role of the State in Hong Kong.
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Post, David – Comparative Education Review, 1993
During the 1970s, the Hong Kong government declared elementary and lower secondary schooling to be free and compulsory and increased funding at all levels. Analysis of census data on birth cohorts in their upper teens in 1971-86 found increasing educational attainment over time and decreasing effects on educational attainment of parent income and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Compulsory Education, Educational Attainment, Educational Mobility
Education and the National Question Today. Essay Reviews: "Nationalism in Education," edited by Klaus Schleicher; "Dogmatic Wisdom: How the Culture Wars Divert Education and Distract America," by Russell Jacoby; "Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism," by Michael Ignatieff.
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Post, David – Comparative Education Review, 1995
Reviews three books concerned with the role of education either in constructing new nationalist identities or in promoting global awareness and pluralistic attitudes. Distinguishes between multicultural education in elementary and secondary schools and separatist ethnic studies in universities. Points out the appeal of nationalist and ethnic…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnic Studies, Ethnicity
Student Expectations of Educational Returns in Peru.
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Post, David – Comparative Education Review, 1985
Among 450 high school seniors surveyed in Lambayeque province, Peru, 68% planned to apply for university admission, despite a low rate of acceptance. Students had unrealistic expectations of future employment benefits derived from higher education, and rural students and those from less educated families had less realistic attitudes than their…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, College Bound Students, Education Work Relationship, Educational Attitudes
Recent University Reform in Mexico.
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Ornelas, Carlos; Post, David – Comparative Education Review, 1992
Examination of recent reforms at three Mexican public universities suggests that university administrators have had little will or power to regulate expansion in the face of growing social demand for higher education. Discusses "populist" and "modernist" conceptions of university reform, which focus on social needs and economic needs,…
Descriptors: College Administration, Educational Change, Educational Demand, Enrollment Influences