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Despite advances in primary school enrollment and completion in recent years, school completion i... more Despite advances in primary school enrollment and completion in recent years, school completion in rural areas of Guatemala is low. The problem is especially severe among indigenous female students, where only about one in eight completes primary school. In 1997, the Guatemalan government launched an ambitious program designed to assist poor indigenous girls to remain in primary school (grades 1-4). In partnership with several nongovernmental organizations, a scholarship delivery system was created that was to reach 36,000 female students over 5 years. This paper examines the partnership arrangement, the relative costs of the program, and its success in increasing girls' school persistence. Promotion rates among children who began school in 1997 in the eight departments targeted by the scholarship program showed that the program had little effect on first-year wastage, an extremely serious problem in rural Guatemala. Over 40 percent of rural firstgraders were not promoted, regardless of whether or not their schools were scholarship recipients. Schools with scholarship recipients had higher rates of promotion into fourth and fifth grades than did nonrecipient schools. In recipient schools, 17 percent of students received scholarships, but there was only a 2 percent difference in fourth-grade completion between schools with scholarship holders and those without. The difference in cost per fourth-grade graduate between recipient and nonrecipient schools was about twice the individual scholarship amount for 4 years. (Author/SV) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Boston University, 1982. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 303-3... more Thesis (Ph. D.)--Boston University, 1982. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 303-311). Photocopy.

Human Organization, 1998

In countries such as Guatemala, where a large percentage of the female population does not attend... more In countries such as Guatemala, where a large percentage of the female population does not attend school or drops out after first grade, female teachers are seen as providing greater opportunities for girls' success in school. Such teachers are felt to have a better understanding of the students and be more sensitive to their needs. In the developing world, however, there exists little evidence on the way teachers of different genders view female or male students or of the relationship between such views and teachers' interaction patterns with students. This study uses proximity techniques, classroom observations, and multi-dimensional scaling to examine differences in teachers' cognitive conceptualization of male and female students. Results show distinct patterns in the attributes associated with male and female students by teachers of different genders. The findings are related to the observed behaviors of sample teachers in their interactions with students in the classroom.

... stories in the time of cholera: racial profiling during a medical nightmare By Charles L. Bri... more ... stories in the time of cholera: racial profiling during a medical nightmare By Charles L. Briggs, with Clara Mantini-Briggs. 430 pp., illustrated. ...

Journal of Church and State, 1982

International Quarterly of Community Health Education, 1988

The present report presents the results and preliminary recommendations of a behavior analysis st... more The present report presents the results and preliminary recommendations of a behavior analysis study of an oral rehydration therapy (ORT) promotion in four localities in San Marcos, Guatemala. In this study, we used behavioral observation techniques to look at one-to-one communication and health education efforts in health clinics as well as to evaluate the effectiveness of these health education efforts by observing mothers' behavioral skills in their own homes. Subsequently, we also observed canalización (outreach) strategies to see whether we could learn more from these health workers' activities, and conducted “behavioral focus group” research with teams of health workers to determine how best to promote effective health education activities to other health workers. Results of our study indicate that health workers already spent a substantial amount of time doing health education and primary prevention, and were fairly effective at doing so. Their communication, however,...

Ethnohistory, 1991

Go to AGRIS search. The keepers of water and earth: Mexican rural social organization and irrigat... more Go to AGRIS search. The keepers of water and earth: Mexican rural social organization and irrigation. ...

The American Historical Review, 1988

American Anthropologist, 2005

Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 2004

Page 1. Page 2. 102 Journal of American Folklore 120 (2007) Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racia... more Page 1. Page 2. 102 Journal of American Folklore 120 (2007) Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profil- ing During a Medical Nightmare. ...

Environmental History Review, 1991

Cross-cultural Research, 2002

Page 1. Cross-Cultural Research / May 2002 Chesterfield et al. / COGNITIVE CATEGORIZATION Cross-C... more Page 1. Cross-Cultural Research / May 2002 Chesterfield et al. / COGNITIVE CATEGORIZATION Cross-Cultural Cognitive Categorization of Students by Guatemalan Teachers Ray A. Chesterfield Juárez & Associates Kjell I. Enge Dickinson College Fernando E. Rubio ...