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Education in Nicaragua

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Education in Nicaragua

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  1. Education in Nicaragua Agronomy 342 – World Food Issues Maclaine Sorden – Spring 2014

  2. Scholarly Articles • Improving Elementary Mathematics Education in Nicaragua:An Experimental Study of the Impact ofTextbooks and Radio on Achievement • Health education for community-based malaria control: an intervention study in Ecuador, Colombia and Nicaragua • The effect of poverty, social inequality, and maternal education on infant mortality in Nicaragua, 1988-1993.

  3. Urban: Poor & Rich Slums Gated Neighborhood http://www.dailyfresher.com/2012/12/tour-of-managua-capital-of-nicaragua.html http://nicaragua.usembassy.gov/121016_eco_schools.html

  4. Rural: Poor & Rich Landowners Laborers http://www.dailyfresher.com/2012/12/tour-of-managua-capital-of-nicaragua.html http://nicaragua.usembassy.gov/121016_eco_schools.html

  5. Boys & Girls Landowners Laborers http://www.flickr.com/photos/lonqueta/3687926678/ http://www.compassion.com/bolivia/cochabamba.htm

  6. Cultural Contexts My host mother and me in front of her house My sister and my neighbor’s daughter

  7. Construction of the New School

  8. References http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/edu/73/4/556.pdf Improving elementary mathematics education in Nicaragua: An experimental study of the impact of textbooks and radio on achievement. Jamison, Dean T.; Searle, Barbara; Galda, Klaus; Heyneman, Stephen P. Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol 73(4), Aug 1981, 556-567. doi: 10.1037/0022-0663.73.4.556 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1446115/pdf/10630139.pdf The effect of poverty, social inequity, and maternal education on infant mortality in Nicaragua, 1988-1993. American Journal of Public Health: January 2000, Vol. 90, No. 1, pp. 64-69. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.90.1.64 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1111/j.1365-3156.1996.tb00119.x/asset/j.1365-3156.1996.tb00119.x.pdf?v=1&t=hs837ppa&s=7d0d1bf0fa8d1e13b26eb4dcd4c5e5ec125232eb Kroeger, Axel, Regine Meyer, Manuel Mancheno, and Martha González. "Health Education for Community-based Malaria Control: An Intervention Study in Ecuador, Colombia and Nicaragua." Tropical Medicine & International Health1.6 (1996): 836-46. Print.

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