BACKGROUND With the continued threat of childhood obesity, many public health intervention efforts focus on school settings. The current study sought to document administrator attitudes regarding obesity and interest in improving relevant school practices (i.e., nutrition and physical activity) in elementary schools. METHODS Mail-back surveys were used to gather data from public and private e...

This paper estimates a general equilibrium model of school quality and household residential and school choice for economies with multiple public school districts and private schools. In the model, households have heterogeneous religious preferences, and private schools can be either Catholic or non-Catholic. The model is estimated with 1990 data from large metropolitan areas in the United Stat...

Does the government control of school systems facilitate equality in school quality? There is a trade-off. On the one hand, government direct control of schools, typically through a large scale hierarchical organization, could produce equalization across schools, providing for uniformity in inputs, standards, teacher qualifications that localized, individually managed, schools could not achieve...

Returns to Private Education in Peru The private provision of educational services has been representing an increasing fraction of the Peruvian schooling system, especially in recent last decades. While there have been many claims about the differences in quality between private and public schools, there is no complete assessment of the different impacts of these two type of providers on the la...

In Malaysia, the Malaysian Medical Council (MMC) is assumed to be the body responsible for ensuring that medical graduates are of a sufficient standard to be safe, and competent medical practitioners. Under the Medical Act 1971, MMC is responsible for recognizing medical schools for the purpose of licensing the graduates to practice in Malaysia. This means that it should set standards and certi...

This paper explores two questions. First, do private schools produce greater academic achievement or attainment than public schools? And second, does this evidence provide guidance on the potential impact of voucher plans? Based on recent experimental evidence, it finds that Catholic elementary schools have modest effects on the mathematics achievement of poor, minority students in grades 2-5 (...

Background: Anemia is a major public health problem in preschool children in Alagoas, Brazil, especially in the younger population, because of a positive correlation between hemoglobin level and age. However, due to the lack of studies, it is not known how widespread this condition is among older children or how it is associated with socioeconomic status. The aim of this study was to investigat...

OBJECTIVE To determine the intensity of Pediculus capitis infestation (abundance) among Argentinean schoolchildren. Children's sex and social stratum were analyzed as modifiers of the general prevalence and degree of parasitism. METHODS The study included 1,370 schoolchildren (692 girls, 678 boys) from 26 schools of the province of La Rioja (21 public schools, five private schools). Classic p...

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior permission in writing of the publisher nor be issued to the public or circulated in any form other than that in which it is published. Private schools in the UK, though far less numerous than state schools, have for a long time played a ve...

Problems with our public urban high schools are intensifying, and many see magnet schools and private schools as the answer. But are those schools really better at increasing the academic skills of students? Using the National Educational Longitudinal Survey, the author estimates the effect of attending a magnet school, Catholic school, or secular private school on the achievement of urban stud...