In today’s competitive society, the secondary school serves as a crucial stage in acquiring a higher education, a profession, and the social and economic status that these provide. Technology education in high school is the last stage prior to seeking employment and embarking upon a career or seeking further education. Unfortunately, it is an elective program in most countries. Thus, students w...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the proximity of fast food restaurants to public schools and examine proximity by neighborhood income and school level (elementary, middle, or high school). METHODS Geocoded school and restaurant databases from 2005 and 2003, respectively, were used to determine the percentage of schools with one or more fast food restaurants within 400 m and 800 m of all public scho...

We present the concept of a correspondence seminar as a way to complement and support one-time contests, especially olympiads. We evaluate specific payoffs of this way of teaching linguistics, and compare its nature to that of a linguistics olympiad. We believe that the correspondence seminar is a great way to introduce talented high school students to linguistics.

This paper presents the main results of an extensive monitoring exercise aimed at assessing the role of informatics education in Italian high schools. The investigation focused on the teaching and certification activities performed by the schools as well as on the role and use of information technologies for teaching and communications with the students and their families. The study has shown a...

87 Forum DOI: 10.18261/issn.1891-5949-2017-02-03

INTRODUCTION Minority populations, including those from rural areas, continue to be underrepresented in medical schools despite increased efforts to recruit them. Although family physicians are more highly represented in rural areas, and medical students from rural areas are more likely to return to rural areas, relatively few medical students enter the specialty of family medicine in the USA. ...

INTRODUCTION Rural background is an acknowledged predictor of later rural medical practice. This study aimed to explore why only small numbers of high school students from rural South Australia seek entry to the University of Adelaide Medical School. METHOD Questionnaires were designed to explore the interest in, knowledge of and attitudes about studying medicine of rural high school students...