Preparing for post-secondary education : new roles for governments and families /
"Based on information from a 1999 Statistics Canada national survey of 34,000 households, Preparing for Post-Secondary Education examines changes to national and international educational funding policies and the relationship between public and private costs. Contributors focus on the role of f...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal ; Ithaca :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©2005.
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Colección: | CEL - Canadian Publishers Collection.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Changing partnerships : families, schools, and government / Robert Sweet and Paul Anisef
- Access to post-secondary education : an analytical framework and new evidence on background effects / Ross Finnie
- Accessibility and student debt : the shift from public to private support in Canada / Stephen Gell and Paul Anisef
- Paying for a university education : a comparison of public and private study costs in Canada, Australia, and selected European countries / Stephen Bell and Glen A. Jones
- Financing lifelong learning : the potential and actual role of individual learning accounts / Hans G. Schuetze
- A revolution of expectations? : three key trends in the SAEP data / Scott Davies
- Distributing scarce resources : parental investments in their children's post-secondary education / Victor Thiessen and E. Dianne Looker
- The effects of region and gender on educational planning in Canadian families / Paul Anisef, George Frempong, and Robert Sweet
- Family structure, child well-being, and post-secondary saving : the effect of social capital on the child's acquisition of human capital / James M. White, Sheila Marshall, and Jamie R. Wood
- Parental involvement in the creation of home-learning environments : gender and class patterns / Nancy Mandell and Robert Sweet
- Exploring limits to parents' involvement in homework / Robert Sweet and Nancy Mandell
- Educational planning in families : issues and future research directions / Paul Anisef and Robert Sweet.