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Assessing and Credentialing Vocational High Schools
Problem Vocational high schools in China serve as an alternative to academic high school and typically provide two years of in-the-classroom training and a one-year, school-supervised, on-the-job...
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Learning Through Reading
Evaluating the Impact of Extracurricular Reading Programs on Student Learning Problem Reading is the heart of the education mission in most countries in the world.
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Increasing High School Matriculation
China has shown incredible progress in the last several decades in expanding access to education.
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Upscaling CAL: Can a Prefecture Run CAL Alone?
We tested whether prefectural education officials can manage CAL programs independently.
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Keeping Kids in School
In China's developed urban areas, up to 80 percent of students are accepted into universities.
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Technology and Human Capital _ Migration
One often hears that China has the largest online population in the world.
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Nutrition, Health and Education _ Migration
Check out our latest work on: > Baby Nutrition > Uncorrected Vision > Intestinal Worms > Text Messaging for Health Health & Education: What's the Link...
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Seeing is Learning - Access to Vision Care: Rural vs. Urban
Eyeglass ownership among migrant children is as low as it is with rural children REAP’s research on uncorrected vision in both rural and urban settings reveal a high percentage of China’s rural and...
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Impact of Wearing Glasses on Student Test Scores
Researchers and practitioners have long sought to establish the relationship between vision care and educational performance.
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Policy Related Research - REAP 2013
Official Policy Briefs(Submitted to China’s State Council) Research and Policy Recommendations on the Situation of Infant Malnutrition and Underdevelopment in Poor AreasAdvisory for Implementing a...
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School Counseling and Junior High Dropout
One out of four students drop out before graduating from junior high. Part of the problem is that students feel like the school does not care about them and lack a sense of belonging.
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Guaranteed Financial Aid for High School
Is low attendance affected by lack of knowledge about financial aid?
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Documenting China's Digital Divide
China faces an emerging technology divide: while some groups have gained much access to technology, others lag behind.
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Paying for Performance
There is a strong relationship between poor health and the achievement gap. Gaping rural-urban inequality is a major challenge facing the rapidly developing Chinese society today.
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Baby Malnutrition and Developmental Delays in Rural China
Left behind by the rapid growth of the Chinese economy in large cities, Stanford researchers find that the average baby in rural China is malnourished and developmentally dealyed.
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One Laptop Per Child
Is a One-Laptop-Per-Child (OLPC) program an effective way to narrow the digital and educational divides in China?
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Computer Assisted Learning in Poor Rural Schools
Having demonstrated CAL's effectiveness in raising academic performance in poor rural schools, REAP hopes to further integrate the program into the curriculum of all rural schools. Despite the...
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Text Messaging for Health
The success of multivitamin supplement programs often requires participation from families.
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Best Buy Toolkit for Health
Migrant children in a suburb outside Beijing Over the years, the Rural Education Action Project (REAP) has shown that young children at elementary schools across poor parts of rural China suffer...
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"Across the Pacific" Curriculum Project
Student-aged children in the United States have a poor understanding of China's history, development, and current affairs.
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Counseling, Vouchers, and High School Matriculation
China's national government still struggles to keep students in school through high school Compulsory education in China ends with grade 9.
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Mandarin as a Second Language
Rural ethnic minorities are among the most disadvantaged in their ability to access educational resources.
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One Egg a Day
The government is able to provide an egg for each of these students, but is that enough?
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