Industry Canada’s Community Access Program (CAP) aims to provide affordable public access to the Internet and the skills that people need to use it effectively. In fact, the CAP is an Industry Canada effort to bridge the digital divide (rural-urban, intra-urban). In the City of Toronto Industry Canada funding is used to support CAP sites managed by two organizations, the Learning Enrichment Foundation and the Toronto District School Board. CAP was implemented through the establishment of community-based public Internet access facilities. The implementation of the CAP in Toronto has resulted in the use of a wide range of organizations and locations including: libraries, schools, community centres, employment and social service agencies, and language development centres. This research asks the question, is the current network of CAP locations adequately geographically organized to meet the demand for service provision? Adequate supply means that the neighbourhood CAP supply is not over-served and under-served. Data from Industry Canada’s CAP database and the Canada census are input to a modeling process that combines multi-attribute decision analysis with a location-allocation model. The results suggest that there is likely a need to reevaluate the geographical structure of the current CAP network, with a view to achieving a more equitable allocation of supply.

Industry Canada’s Community Access Program (CAP) aims to provide affordable public access to the Internet and the skills that people need to use it effectively. In fact, the CAP is an Industry Canada effort to bridge the digital divide (rural-urban, intra-urban). In the City of Toronto Industry Canada funding is used to support CAP sites managed by two organizations, the Learning Enrichment Foundation and the Toronto District School Board. CAP was implemented through the establishment of community-based public Internet access facilities. The implementation of the CAP in Toronto has resulted in the use of a wide range of organizations and locations including: libraries, schools, community centres, employment and social service agencies, and language development centres. This research asks the question, is the current network of CAP locations adequately geographically organized to meet the demand for service provision? Adequate supply means that the neighbourhood CAP supply is not over-served and under-served. Data from Industry Canada’s CAP database and the Canada census are input to a modeling process that combines multi-attribute decision analysis with a location-allocation model. The results suggest that there is likely a need to reevaluate the geographical structure of the current CAP network, with a view to achieving a more equitable allocation of supply.

Industry Canada’s Community Access Program (CAP) aims to provide affordable public access to the Internet and the skills that people need to use it effectively. In fact, the CAP is an Industry Canada effort to bridge the digital divide (rural-urban, intra-urban). In the City of Toronto Industry Canada funding is used to support CAP sites managed by two organizations, the Learning Enrichment Foundation and the Toronto District School Board. CAP was implemented through the establishment of community-based public Internet access facilities. The implementation of the CAP in Toronto has resulted in the use of a wide range of organizations and locations including: libraries, schools, community centres, employment and social service agencies, and language development centres. This research asks the question, is the current network of CAP locations adequately geographically organized to meet the demand for service provision? Adequate supply means that the neighbourhood CAP supply is not over-served and under-served. Data from Industry Canada’s CAP database and the Canada census are input to a modeling process that combines multi-attribute decision analysis with a location-allocation model. The results suggest that there is likely a need to reevaluate the geographical structure of the current CAP network, with a view to achieving a more equitable allocation of supply.

Among ethnic groups in California Latinos continue to have the lowest high school graduation rates and the lowest college completion rates. This study focused on understanding the role parents can play and ways schools and educators can support immigrant Latino parents to improve these rates. Framed with a funds of knowledge approach (Gonzalez, N., Moll, L., & Amanti, C., 2005), this mixed-methods qualitative and quantitative study was conducted in a public charter high school in a low income area of Los Angeles where the student body was primarily Latino. The mission of the school was to prepare students for higher education at a four-year institution. The study results showed that it is possible for a school to engage immigrant Latino parents. With a better understanding of the aspirations, fears, and challenges faced by this community, the information can be provided in a form that is meaningful and that builds upon existing funds of knowledge. Critical components of the college outreach program were seeking parent input, developing a parent outreach plan, making information accessible, encouraging parent college visits, disseminating information beginning in middle school, providing personalized guidance, developing an undocumented student support plan, and creating a college-going culture. Implementing the the college access program encompassed gathering informal and formal feedback, presenting workshops, making documents available in Spanish as well as English, defining terms, arranging college visits, sending and displaying motivating communications, and engaging staff, students, and parents every step of the way.

Submitted by Edineia Teixeira (edineia.teixeira@unioeste.br) on 2018-02-19T19:01:43Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Fernando_Rodrigues2016.pdf: 1094742 bytes, checksum: c4f8ce2162d0eff2077856b5c07d6c2d (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-02-19T19:01:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Fernando_Rodrigues2016.pdf: 1094742 bytes, checksum: c4f8ce2162d0eff2077856b5c07d6c2d (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-07-04 / This study aimed to analyze the process of expanding access to Higher Education in Brazil through Prouni and Fies. This dissertation is based on the analysis concerning the bibliographic production of authors who deal about the access to the Higher Education level during the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Dilma Roussef in the corresponding period from 2003 to 2014. In order to do that, this work is divided in two chapters that present historical aspects and political guidance about the Higher Education contemplating from the State reform since Fernando Henrique Cardoso to Dilma government, in the second chapter it is being addressed the understanding of researchers in the policy field for Higher Education as well as the movement of privatization/mercantilization of this education level. However, it is considered that the national Higher Education system still does not address the broad part of the population in Brazil, even with the policies and programs gestated in the last governments above mentioned, so it is still necessary the expansion of the access to the Higher Education in the public pole. On the other hand, the expansion of the access must occur without direct or indirect delegations of this responsibility to the private sector, as well, without the allocation of public funds, even if indirect, for the private higher education institutions, such as the tax waiver promoted by the Brazilian program University for All Program (Prouni) when buying private schools vacancies as a way of access increasing. The neoliberal principles in Brazilian public policies are imposed by international organizations and various governments that adhered to these principles for the global economy, with a project global of organization of the society in a coordinated policy where, despite the state plays a fundamental role in the formulation and execution of the social policies it does not mean that these involve only the public sphere. From the readings and analyzes of the authors mentioned in this dissertation, it was identified in the context of the educational reforms implemented in the 1980s and 1990s, that the policies for higher education resulted in the school exclusion of the higher degree of the working class and deterioration of the public system education, distancing more and more the possibility of access to higher education, although it is very heralded a discourse of democratization of this level of education. / Este trabalho teve como objetivo analisar o processo de ampliação do acesso à Educação Superior no Brasil por meio do Prouni e Fies. A presente dissertação baseia-se na análise acerca da produção bibliográfica de autores que tratam sobre o acesso ao nível de Educação Superior durante os governos de Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva e Dilma Rousseff no período correspondente de 2003 a 2014. Para tanto este trabalho divide-se em dois capítulos que apresentam aspectos históricos e orientações políticas sobre a Educação Superior contemplando desde a reforma do Estado no governo de Fernando Henrique Cardoso até o governo de Dilma, sendo no segundo capítulo abordada a compreensão de pesquisadores no campo das políticas para a Educação Superior bem como o movimento de privatização/mercantilização deste nível de ensino. Contudo, considera-se que o sistema nacional de Educação Superior ainda não contempla às amplas camadas populacionais no Brasil, mesmo com as políticas e programas gestados nos últimos governos acima referidos, pois é necessária ainda a expansão do acesso à Educação Superior no pólo público. Por outro lado, a expansão do acesso deve ocorrer sem delegações diretas ou indiretas dessa responsabilidade à iniciativa privada, bem como, sem a alocação de verbas públicas, mesmo que indiretas, para os estabelecimentos de educação superior privados, como é o caso da renúncia fiscal promovida pelo programa brasileiro Programa Universidade para Todos (Prouni), ao comprar vagas de escolas particulares como forma de ampliação do acesso. Os princípios neoliberais nas políticas públicas brasileiras são impostos por organismos internacionais e diferentes governos que aderiram a tais princípios pela economia globalizada, com um projeto global de organização da sociedade em uma política articulada onde, apesar do Estado desempenhar um papel fundamental na formulação e efetivação das políticas sociais não significa que estas envolvam exclusivamente o âmbito público. A partir das leituras e análises dos autores citados nesta dissertação, identificou-se no contexto das reformas educacionais implementadas nas décadas de 1980 e 1990, que as políticas para a educação superior resultaram na exclusão escolar do nível superior da classe trabalhadora e deteriorização do sistema público de ensino, distanciando cada vez mais a possibilidade de acesso ao ensino superior, embora seja propalado um discurso de democratização deste nível de ensino.

Despite 25 years of concerted efforts by African governments to adopt consistent policies for increasing food production, hunger and poverty are still prevalent in the continent. Using Bernanke's conceptualization of the credit channel theory of monetary policy, the purpose of this correlational study was to investigate whether a subsidy program, the National Accelerated Agricultural Inputs Access Program (NAAIAP), affected the rates of fertilizer usage and food production in Kakamega County, Western Kenya. Purposive stratified sampling was used to select 114 participants consisting of 72 farmers in each of the 2 groups: NAAIAP beneficiaries and nonbeneficiaries. Participants completed a survey on fertilizer usage rates, income earned, and surplus maize yield. Data were analyzed using multiple regression to test whether there was a difference between the beneficiary and nonbeneficiary groups regarding income, surplus product, and the dependent variable of fertilizer usage. Results indicated that beneficiaries of NAAIAP credit program bought and prepared to use fertilizers significantly earlier than did their counterparts. Further, the results of multiple regression indicated significant positive correlation (p <.05) between income earned from sale of surplus maize yield and quantity of fertilizer used by farmers in Kakamega County. These findings suggest that NAAIAP improved food security and farmers' income in Kakamega Count. This study contributes to social change by recommending to subsidy program administrators in Kakamega County to consider policy changes. Such policy changes may improve program outreach to resource-poor farmers and improve income and product yield in the agricultural sector of Kenya.