Education in the United States and Nigeria: policies and advocacy, and inclusion of children with disabilities
Abstract
The world is now a developed, modern village, and countries around the world are borrowing a leaf from other countries’ policies. This paper presents a picture of the inter-locking relationships between the United States of America’s educational policies and the Nigeria’s educational policies and early childhood education. This paper looks at education in the United States and that of Nigeria, viz-a-vis, its differences and similarities. This paper also looks at the inclusion of children with disabilities in education of both countries.
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