Beyond ‘talking out of school’: educational researchers as public intellectuals

Beyond Talking: We Need Effective Measures to Tackle Systemic Corruption and the Power That Allows It to Persist in Health Systems; A Response to Recent Commentaries

Networks of the dead or alive in cyberspace: public intellectuals in the mass and internet media

This article addresses whether dead public intellectuals differ from living public intellectuals in terms of their social network properties in the mass and internet media. Explicated at the theoretical level is the macro-level asynchrony of the web, moving beyond micro-level conceptualizations. Networks for 662 actors which Posner defined as public intellectuals are analyzed based on data from...

How Taxpayers Benefit When Students Attain Higher Levels of Education

M eeting the educational demands of the future will be expensive; however, in most states, public schools from kindergarten through the university level already experience budgetary challenges. Policymakers in many states face the challenge of motivating taxpayers to provide the funds required to meet mounting educational needs. Taxpayers who do not have children in public school may question w...

You Might Transmit COVID-19 Only Via Talking; A Speech Therapy Perspective

The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was identified in late 2019 and has gradually spread to all countries. Following the outspread of this virus as a community-acquired disease, many researchers have been trying to identify various factors involved in the transmission of the virus, as well as the ways to prevent its transmission from person to person. For example, researchers have found tha...

School Size and Its Relationship to Student Outcomes and School Climate A Review and Analysis of Eight South Carolina State-wide Studies National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities

As many researchers and writers have pointed out, until relatively recently the trend across the country has been to create larger schools through consolidation and restructuring (Cotton, 1996, Howley, 1997). Historically, larger schools have been advertised as providing a more comprehensive curriculum than possible in smaller schools, while reducing per pupil operating costs (Conant, 1956; Cub...