Maps are used to track diseases and illustrate the social context of health problems. However, commercial mapping software requires special training. This article illustrates how nonspecialists used Google Earth, a free program, to create community maps. The Bronx, New York, is characterized by high levels of obesity and diabetes. Residents and medical students measured the variety and quality ...

Since the early 1970s, ballot initiatives and court rulings have sought to equalize funding across California schools. Yet 30 years later, variations in funding remain both across and within school districts. Moreover, although “funding per pupil” provides a readily available and understandable measure of school resources within a district, it provides little insight into how individual schools...

Are regulations on the payday loan effective? Do people switch to other forms of expensive credit such as pawnshop loans because of such regulations? In this study, we aim to find the answers to these two questions through exploring state-level variations in regulations on payday loans and other alternative financial services. Using FDIC’s panel survey data and Google Trends data, we find that ...

Aim To identify sustainable curricular practices that promote student resilience. Method Sophomore students in a four-year baccalaureate nursing program attended positive psychology seminar and formal mentoring led by senior- junior-level students. ‘resilience was measured pre- post-intervention using the Predictive 6-Factor Resilience Scale (PR6). Additional rich descriptions from experience o...

This article was presented by the author at the National University Medical School Vaccination Seminar.

A key purpose of higher education seminars is to support higher-order thinking, yet empirical evidence how this evidenced and scaffolded in remains scarce. Building on previous work identifying rhetorical linguistic devices for argumentation, we found that thinking can be through using metaphors, linking ideas personal experiences emotional connections. Findings also suggest the types tutor que...

Student wastage in higher education is a problem of great importance in our society. The time has come to try to start a service to give specialised help for redeployment in continued education or in suitable employment that carries further training prospects. This would be not only a humane social service, but a real component of the educational and economic system. At present, wastage in the ...

Early retirement incentives (ERIs) are increasingly prevalent in education as districts seek to close budget gaps by replacing expensive experienced teachers with lower-cost newer teachers. Combined with the aging of the teacher workforce, these ERIs are likely to change the composition of teachers dramatically in the coming years. We use exogenous variation from an ERI program in Illinois in t...