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The Changing Fabric Of Adult Basic Education In Kansas, Jeff Zacharakis

Educational Considerations

Globalization is changing the demographic fabric of a world in which people are not only mobilizing in search of jobs and economic opportunity but so are technology and capital mobilizing in search of cheap labor.

Globilization And Its Implications For Vocational Education In Nigeria, C.S. Oni

Essays in Education

The paper presents the concepts of globalization as well as vocation-technical education. It proceeds to discuss some of the implications of globalization on Vocational-technical education. The paper concludes with some of the changes that vocational education in globalization era could bring for the improvement of the economy and the technological advancement of Nigeria.

2007 Spring Humanities Symposium: Globalization, Messiah College

Humanities Symposium

Keynote Address: Dr. Kent Hill

February 19-26, 2007

An Analysis Of National Educational Assessment Policy In The People's Republic Of China And The United States, Guofang Yuan

ETD Archive

Ongoing changes in educational assessment policies within China and the U.S. are complicated. On the one hand, educational assessment policies seem to be diverging, with the U.S. moving towards more standardized testing and China moving away from it. On the other hand, the policies and the reforms seem to converge, with both nations utilizing standardized testing for educational improvement. In China, after the reinstallation of college/university entrance examination in 1977, a series of testing policy reforms and measures were implemented. The goal was to achieve a quality education to best serve China's economic development in a global market. Since 1983, …

Social Capitalism And The New Individualism (Text And Audio), Jim Sikora

Honorees for Teaching Excellence

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