The United States Commissioner of Education called a conference recently in Chicago, of persons particularly interested in the field of elementary education, to consider what changes were necessary and practicable in order to improve the elementary school system of the country for the purpose of meeting after-war conditions in a satisfactory and scientific manner. At every point, it seems to me...

Information on schools’ performance is central to the school choice process in England. This paper evaluates school performance tables against criteria of functionality, relevance, and comprehensibility. We estimate a model to judge functionality by setting up the following question: “In which feasible school will my child achieve the highest exam score?” We show that neither of the current lea...

abstract aim and background: parenting styles are particular methods that parents use of them in nurturing of their children.the aim of this study was comparing parenting styles of mothers of pre-school children with and without intellectual disabilities. method and material: this is a causal-comparative research.the statistical population of this research includes the whole mothers of pre-scho...

Hillen is one of nine elmhurst memorial Healthcare (emHc) nurses who are contracted with elmhurst community unit School district 205. She is part of emHc’s outside education department, but her office is in the school district building. Hillen is responsible for emerson elementary School, Hawthorne elementary School and Sandburg middle School, along with overseeing half of the district’s K-12 s...

PURPOSE In this article, the author presents a conceptual framework for intervention at school-age levels reflecting upon a number of aspects raised by Kamhi (2014) in the lead article of this forum. The focus is on the persistence of traditional practices, components of language intervention, and prioritizing goals for students with language learning difficulties. Weaving together learning and...

Comprehensive School Health (CSH) is an internationally recognized framework that moves beyond the individual to holistically address school health, leading to the development of health-enhancing behaviors while also improving educational outcomes. Previous research has suggested that principal support for CSH implementation is essential, but this role has yet to be explored. Therefore, the pur...

The Convention on the Rights of the Child detailed an international imperative to fulfilling, protecting, and respecting the rights of every child. In particular, the Convention set out a clear mandate for guaranteeing opportunities for children to be heard on all matters of concern to them. The attainment of these goals involves respecting and valuing children as active participants in the edu...

This paper attempted to illuminate the importance of social competence for elementary school teacher in rural mountain environment. The author analyzes the essential features, social and pedagogical challenges in rural schools, sensible changes characteristic of the modern village. Special attention is paid to the rural mountain school as a center of educational and social activities, its pecul...

This study was conducted in the rural Indian high schools K.R .S. High School and Srirangapatna High School. Two control groups and one experimental group were selected by matching for this research. The experimental group consisted of 41 students from K.R.S. High School, control group Cl consisted of 40 students from the same high school as the experimental group, while control group C2 consis...