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Betting on Education : The Costs of Schooling for Cambodian Youth.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Estes, Jennifer.
- Series:
- Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (0 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- Educational credentials are one of the most reliable tickets to a middle-class livelihood across the globe today.But as the costs of schooling rise, young people increasingly wonder whether their investment will pay off.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Hidden Costs: State Schools and Private Classes
- 2. Unequal Tracks: The Value of Science Versus Social Science
- 3. Speculative Investments: Students' Use of Time and Money
- 4. (Un)Fair Assessments: Cheating and the Promise of Meritocracy
- 5. Family Ties: Students' Trajectories and Relations of Interdependency
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Estes, Jennifer Betting on Education
- ISBN:
- 9781978844605
- OCLC:
- 1594452808
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