One of the criticisms which is often leveled against the public school system of the United States is that the instruction is too mechanical; that the public schools tend to treat all children as if they were alike, both physically and mentally. The tendency in modern education to reach the individual needs of the children should meet this objection. The administrators of our public schools are...

Peer observation of classroom and clinical teaching has received increased attention over the past decade in schools of nursing to augment student ratings of teaching effectiveness. One essential ingredient is the scale used to evaluate performance. A five-step systematic procedure for adapting, writing, and building any peer observation scale is described. The differences between the developme...

OBJECTIVE: The goal was to assess the rate and behavioral methods of nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) in a community sample of youth and examine effects of age and sex. METHODS: Youth in the third, sixth, and ninth grades (ages 7–16) at schools in the community were invited to participate in a laboratory study. A total of 665 youth (of 1108 contacted; 60% participation rate) were interviewed abou...

Bangladesh is widely recognised as a Millennium Development Goal success story with a strong track record of growth and socio-economic development. The decline in the poverty headcount has been nothing short of remarkable. In 25 years, gender parity and almost universal access to primary school have been achieved. More children than ever before survive their early years, start learning in prima...

the eleven graded systems given in the table below, and from 139 rural schools of Bureau County, Illinois. Blank forms, asking for a tabulation of the age and grade of all school children enrolled in the different systems, were sent to the superintendents and principals, with the request that these be properly filled out and returned at an early date. The data from the Freeport schools were tak...

BACKGROUND The Australian state of Victoria, with 5.2 million residents, enforced home quarantine during a H1N1 pandemic in 2009. The strategy was targeted at school children. The objective of this study was to investigate the extent to which parents' access to paid sick leave or paid carer's leave was associated with (a) time taken off work to care for quarantined children, (b) household finan...

In this commentary, I make five points: that designing observation systems that actually predict students' outcomes is challenging; second that systems that capture the complex and dynamic nature of the classroom learning environment are more likely to be able to meet this challenge; three, that observation tools are most useful when developed to serve a particular purpose and are put to that p...

Teaching mode can be defined as: under the guidance of the certain teaching ideas and teaching theory, around the certain teaching goals, to finish the teaching task and set up relatively stable teaching activities of “paradigm”[1]. The students of ordinary higher school which basis is weaker than the students of research higher schools, so the ordinary higher schools in China carry out “teachi...