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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480067803321

Autore

Gray Kenneth C.

Titolo

Other ways to win : creating alternatives for high school graduates / / Kenneth C. Gray, Edwin L. Herr ; cover designer, Michael Dubowe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin Press, , 2006

©2006

ISBN

1-4833-5184-X

1-4522-0976-6

Edizione

[Third edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Disciplina

370.11/3/0973

Soggetti

Career education - United States

High school students - Vocational guidance - United States

High school graduates - Employment - United States

Postsecondary education - United States

High school graduates - United States - Social conditions

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface to the Third Edition""; ""Preface to the Second Edition""; ""Preface to the First Edition""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Authors""; ""Part I - The One Way to Win Myth""; ""Chapter 1 - The One Way to Win Myth""; ""The Academic Middle""; ""Section I: The One Way to Win Paradigm""; ""The One Way to Win Paradigm Defined""; ""Section II: The Human, Financial, and Economic Development""; ""Costs of the One Way to Win Paradigm""; ""The Human Cost of the One Way to Win Paradigm""; ""The Rope Climbing Allegory""

""The Dollars and Cents Cost to Students and Their Parents""""The Dollars and Cents Cost to the Public""; ""The Economic Development Cost""; ""Technical Skill Shortages""; ""Foreign Workers, 9/11, and Exporting of Jobs""; ""Section III: The Argument for Creating Other Ways to Win""; ""A Case Study: Keith and the College Game""; ""Chapter 2 - Recognizing the Forces behind One Way to Win""; ""Understanding the One Way to Win Mentality""; ""Section I: The Pressure to Go to College from Parents and Others""; ""Pressure from Parents""; ""Pressure from



High Schools""

""State-Mandated High Stakes Testing""""Pressure from Peers and the Media""; ""Section II: The Economic and Social Forces behind One Way to Win""; ""Diminishing Economic Opportunities""; ""Labor Market Misconceptions""; ""Globalization""; ""Misplaced Faith in the Job Outlook for 4-Year College Graduates""; ""The Fundamental Fear: All Decent Jobs Will Require a BA""; ""Education, Social Class, and Status""; ""The Prejudice Against Nonprofessional Work""; ""The Ideology of Equal Opportunity""; ""Section III: The Enablers behind One Way to Win: Open Admissions and Financial Aid""

""Open College Admissions""""Need-Based Financial Aid""; ""Section IV: No Child Left behind""; ""No Child Left behind Legislation""; ""Other Ways to Win""; ""Chapter 3 - Limited Options for Special Populations""; ""Section I: Disadvantaged Youth""; ""Youth “at Risk� of Dropping out of High School""; ""Special Needs Students""; ""Section II: Economically Disadvantaged Youth""; ""Section III: Women and the Gender Wage Gap""; ""Other Ways to Win""; ""Part II - Counting the Losers in the One Way to Win Game""; ""Chapter 4 - Questionable Academic Preparation""

""Section I: How Effective is the College Prep Program of Study?""""The College Prep Program and the Academic Middle""; ""Follow-Up Study of Recent High School Graduates""; ""Going to College: Do Academic Credentials Matter?""; ""Section II: The High School Experience of Those in the Academic Middle""; ""College Prep Course�Taking Patterns""; ""Involvement in the Curriculum""; ""Career Uncertainty""; ""Second-Class Status""; ""Low Academic Expectations""; ""Other Ways to Win""; ""Chapter 5 - Winners and Losers in the One Way to Win Game""

""Section I: Remedial Education and College Dropouts: The First Losers""

Sommario/riassunto

Now in its third edition, this bestseller offers new data, recommendations, and observations that explore the choices for success available to students in the academic middle.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910872184703321

Titolo

The Sustainability of Higher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa : Quality Assurance Perspectives / / edited by Peter Neema-Abooki

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024

ISBN

9783031462429

9783031462412

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (424 pages)

Collana

Sustainable Development Goals Series, , 2523-3092

Disciplina

378.67

Soggetti

Education, Higher

Sustainability

Environmental education

Ethnology - Africa

Culture

Higher Education

Environmental and Sustainability Education

African Culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction: Sustainability as an Acme of Quality Assurance in Higher Education -- Part 1: Curriculum and Teaching in Higher Education -- Chapter 2: Models of Quality Assurance in Higher Education: Towards a Quality Assurance Framework of Digital Learning in Higher Education in Africa -- Chapter 3: Monitoring and Evaluation in Higher Education Institutions: Quality Perspectives for Higher Africa -- Chapter 4: Assuring Quality of Teaching and Learning Through Internal Quality Curriculum Review Mechanisms: A Case of Private Higher Education Institutions in Post-Conflict Somalia -- Chapter 5: Enhancing Cognition of Students with Visual Impairments via Human Computer Interface in Sub-Saharan Africa: Blueprint for SDG 4 -- Chapter 6: Quality Assurance Systems Vis-à-vis Regional Integration of Higher Education in the East African Community -- Chapter 7: A Framework for Embedding Graduate Employability: Attributes into



Higher Education Curriculum in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Chapter 8: Addressing SDG 4 via Learners’ Prior Numerical Cognition as a Predictor of Educational Performance in a Developing Country -- Part 2: Higher Education and Innovations -- Chapter 9: Scaling Education Innovations in Tanzania, Kenya and Zambia: Assessing the Design of School In-Service Teacher Training -- Chapter 10: Students’ Satisfaction and Virtual Learning Service Delivery in Bugema University -- Chapter 11: Mechanisms for Enhancing Employability Skills Among Students Within Vocational Education Training Institutions in Tanzania -- Chapter 12: Higher Education: Towards a Model for Successful University-Industry Collaboration in Africa -- Chapter 13: Higher Education as an Engine of Development: Sites of Domination, Contestation and Struggle in Africa -- Chapter 14: Energy Sustainability in African Higher Education: Current Situation and Prospects -- Chapter 15: Higher Education Quality Assurance in a Neoliberal Context: A Critical Perspective -- Chapter 16: The Role of Higher Education and the Future of Work in Africa’s Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Sommario/riassunto

This book delves into the role of higher education as a means of sustainable development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Contributions from across the region examine the strategies and technological advances available to enable educands to deal with an uncertain future and are organised under two key themes: Curriculum and Teaching and Higher Education and Innovations. The volume brings together theoretical and practical perspectives, relating them to international benchmarks while maintaining the specificities of the African context. It will be of interest to students and scholars as well as practitioners whose work interrogates higher education, quality assurance, and sustainable development goals. Peter Neema-Abooki is a Professor of Higher Educational Management Studies and Development/Business and Management in Uganda, with academic connections in South Africa and Namibia. He is an Alumnus of DIES-National Multiplication Trainings (NMT), University of Potsdam, Germany; and has accordingly conducted a training of trainers (ToT) at Namibia University (UNAM). His other books include Quality Assurance in Higher Education in Eastern and Southern Africa: Regional and Continental Perspectives, and Quality Assessment and Enhancement in Higher Education in Africa.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910694362703321

Titolo

Carbon sequestration technology roadmap and program plan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Pittsburgh, PA, : National Energy Technology Laboratory

ISSN

1945-5658

Descrizione fisica

volumes : digital, PDF file

Disciplina

363

Soggetti

Carbon dioxide - Environmental aspects

Global warming

Climatic changes

Periodicals.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico