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Accounting for Unequal Academic Performance: Government and Private School Students in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia

by Abdulfetah Mohammed and Mikyas Abera Abstract Parental socioeconomic status, residence, gender, and type of school, among others, have been identified to affect students’ academic performance. This article aims at explaining the effects of cultural, economic, and social capital on the academic performance of students attending government and private preparatory schools in Dire Dawa city, […]

An Epidemic of Kidnapping: Interpreting School Abductions and Insecurity in Nigeria

by Aly Verjee and Chris M. A. Kwaja Abstract Attacks on Nigerian school students from December 2020 to August 2021 saw hundreds of children abducted and prompted a national outcry at the state’s seeming inability to prevent such events. This recent wave of abductions follows other notorious incidents of mass abduction and murder of students, most […]