What are the politics behind the institutionalized homophobia that persists in education?
[4] Disparities persist in education with about 75 per cent of urban children attending pre-school compared with only 51 per cent of those in rural areas.
Yet even with these numbers, most (89%) participants agreed that "Knowing what I know now, I would still choose to advise at this institution". What is it that keeps them persisting in higher education?
Similar claims can be made for adult education, with a bonus: children of parents who persist in adult education to university are more likely themselves to go to university.
Although interest in sustainable design teaching and learning started more than 20 years ago at both post graduate and undergraduate level in Egypt, ecological illiteracy persists in architecture education.
As part of this work, she and co-authors have developed and tested a series of interventions designed to support families and students as they save for college, complete financial aid forms, and persist in higher education.
Stevens shows that the tensions between the liberal and the vocational, between a culture of print and a nonverbal culture of experience, persisted in technical education through the first half of the nineteenth century but were resolved temporarily by a common moral vision.
Polish culture persisted in underground education, publications, even theater.
So even if we persist in valuing education only in terms of its practical value, that value must go beyond the holy three sanctified by President Obama.
Academy students, from both targeted (2005-7) and untargeted cohorts (2008-9), enroll and persist in undergraduate education programs at higher than national trends of 27.8% [11].
In fact, Amiel and Reeves argue that 'if we persist in believing in education and technology as value-free, we should not attempt to engage in design-based research and should instead resign ourselves to perpetuating research that effects no systematic change' (2008, p. 37).
