As the nation's schools seek to fulfill the academic imperatives of the federal No Child Left Behind Act and associated state imperatives, they may be forgetting an important missing element in boosting academic achievement: directly confronting the mental health and psychosocial needs that impede a significant percentage of children and adolescents. This article explores the available research...

There are a range of ‘top down’ imperatives which have driven such an approach, including the need to sustainably finance educational infrastructure and show evidence as to how this money is being spent successfully. This need is emerging following the funding approaches now being taken by such bodies as the European Investment Bank and in Public Private Partnerships. On the other hand ‘bottom ...

The destiny of the woman must be shaped to a large extent on her own conception of her spiritual imperatives and her place in society.'

Editor's introduction to the Journal of Health Ethics vol. 18, no. 2

This article is a critique of Reformed Ecclesiology, particularly as regarding ministry and church polity. It argued herein that static ecclesiology results in seemingly deficient responding to the context. seen current polities ways which different denominations explain carry out their face new religious environment 21st century. demands imperatives from church, especially now advent emerging ...