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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sweet, Robert Arthur, 1943-, Anisef, Paul
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2005.
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.