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Exploring Open Educational Resources For Enhancing Teaching And Learning., Zakir Hossain

Zakir Hossain

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An Account Of My Life’S Blessings And My Spanish Ancestors - Among The First Families Of New Mexico, Frank Cortez Flores

Frank Cortez Flores

A concise history of Frank Cortez Flores’ life blessings: Frank achieved, at the young age of 27, his first doctoral degree (later on two more doctoral – total: one academic and two vocational), three masters (MS, MA, & MPH) and two post-doctoral along a life time of bench and field research, visiting fellow, faculty member and volunteer health care provider, mainly in global underdeveloped countries. Frank was graduated from USC's College of Letters, Arts and Sciences - School of Dentistry - School of Medicine - School of Education and was a faculty member as well. His other alma maters include: …

Achieving Universal Literacy In Andhra Pradesh: Status And Prospects, Venkatanarayana Motkuri Mr., Ravi C Prof.

Venkatanarayana Motkuri Mr.

The main objective of the present paper is to assess the prospects of achieving universal adult literacy with a policy intervention factor through adult literacy programmes that

target different age groups. As a backdrop, the paper presents the status analysis with respect to the progress in the literacy rate and changes in disparities across social and

geographical groups in the literacy rate in Andhra Pradesh.

An analysis has highlighted the poor performance of the state with respect to the promotion of literacy during the last decade as compared to that of the previous decades. The

state has continued to remain …

The Legal Impact Of Emerging Governance Models On Public Education And Its Office Holders, Robert A. Garda Jr., David Doty

Robert A. Garda

The idea that changing the formal structure of governance can lead to better schools is rooted in American political and intellectual history. Politicians, career educators, parents, business leaders, and investors continue to wrangle over the control of public schools all across the country. With these battles for control have come more lawsuits, more laws, and more administrative regulations dictating the governance structures of educational institutions. Indeed, one could argue that, in recent years, debates over how schools and school districts should be governed have subsumed the curriculum debates over how and what children should be taught. Leadership matters, and therefore …