BACKGROUND There has been no large study characterizing selection bias in allergy and evaluating school personnel's ability to use an epinephrine auto-injector (EpiPen®). Our objective was to determine if the consent process introduces selection bias by comparing 2 methods of soliciting participation of school personnel in a study evaluating their ability to demonstrate the EpiPen®. METHODS S...

School improvement policies converge on urban public schools in ways that paradoxically compromise school improvement—a challenge some have called a heightened state of policy incoherence (Fuhrman, 1993). These schools face a barrage of demands from various sources including federal and state governments, local school boards, unions, and community groups—these demands focus on numerous aspects ...

In a recent survey of the amount and kind of medical inspection in the public schools of twenty-nine of the larger cities and towns of California, the conditions shown were far from being ideal, yet demonstrate the fact that the superintendents and school boards are considering the matter seriously and that many of them are doing important work. The cities considered by this survey run from 416...

To monitor behaviors which place adolescents at increased risk for premature morbidity and mortality, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) developed the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS). The YRBSS measures six categories of behaviors: behaviors that contribute to unintentional and intentional injuries; tobacco use; alcohol and other drug use; sexual behaviors that contribute to ...

We review studies conducted by ourselves and coauthors that document a "self-serving" bias in judgments of fairness and demonstrate that the bias is an important cause of impasse in negotiations. We discuss experimental evidence showing that (a) the bias causes impasse; (b) it is possible to reduce impasses by debiasing bargainers; and (c) the bias results from selective evaluation of informati...

BACKGROUND In 2002, CDC recommended that the nation's schools establish policies that reduce sun exposure to decrease students' risk of skin cancer. PURPOSE A program to convince public school districts to adopt such a policy was evaluated. DESIGN RCT. SETTING/PARTICIPANTS Public school districts in Colorado (n=56) and Southern California (n=56). INTERVENTION Policy information, tools, ...

Background: Online learning is a growing delivery model for education; however, there exists a void in the literature regarding the adoption of online learning models in rural K-12 school systems. Purpose: To provide pertinent data to the rural school administrator so that they may make an informed decision in regards to the potential implementation of asynchronous online learning within their ...