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Impacts Of Environmental Quality On The Demographics Of Three Nations, Emily Hummel
Impacts Of Environmental Quality On The Demographics Of Three Nations, Emily Hummel
Honors Projects
This study will examine how the correlation between air and water quality and the population demographics of India, South Africa, and the United States. India is a country with a growing population, increasing income inequality, and gender roles that reflect its status as a developing nation. South Africa is much smaller in area and the population is beginning to level off, but South Africa’s income inequality is growing much faster than India’s and gender inequality is less of an issue in South Africa. The population of the United States is decreasing and gender roles are fairly equal, despite income inequality …
Realizing The Right To Education: An Evaluation Of Education Policy In Six States Of India, Isabella Burch
Realizing The Right To Education: An Evaluation Of Education Policy In Six States Of India, Isabella Burch
CMC Senior Theses
The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act is India’s most recent national-level policy in pursuit of universalizing elementary education. While some states have been successful at increasing the number of students who attend school, reducing dropout rates, and reducing the rates of out of school children, others are still struggling to make progress. The states that are successful are surprising in some instances because they are not particularly wealthy, they have large rural populations, and some face larger socio-political issues. This thesis finds that the states succeeding in meeting RTE goals are not always the states that …