Special Issues in Reforming Middle Level Schools

Reforming Preschools and Schools.

Compared with their higher-income counterparts, children growing up in low-income families in the United States typically complete less schooling, report worse health, and work and earn less in adulthood. Moreover, changes in the American economy over the last 40 years have raised the level of skills and qualifications that children need to obtain a good middle-class job, as well as making it m...

Special Schools

Reforming health care in Canada: current issues.

This paper examines the current health care reform issues in Canada. The provincial health insurance plans of the 1960s and 1970s had the untoward effects of limiting the federal government's clout for cost control and of promoting a system centered on inpatient and medical care. Recently, several provincial commissions reported that the current governance structures and management processes ar...

National Special Schools Union

foresee a probable decrease in the number of mental defectives to be dealt with; but thought there were possibilities of a reduction in the number of physical defectives. There was an enormous and gratifying improvement in the conditions under which special education was carried on, and there could be none better than those enjoyed in some parts of Scotland. Mr. McKechnie begged all teachers to...

Teaching Engineering in the Middle Schools: Virginia Middle Schools Engineering Education Initiative

1 Larry G. Richards, University of Virginia, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Charlottesville, Va. 229044746 Phone: 434 924 3191, [email protected] 2 Gabriel Laufer University of Virginia, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, [email protected] 3 Joseph A.C. Humphrey, University of Virginia, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, [email protected] Abstract The Virginia Middle Schools Enginee...