facilities mil1 be made available in the United States to the dentists of Latin America. Perhaps our conferrees in Central and South America will find ii possible to invite some of the dentists of the United States to visit their countries. New schools are being built, new methods are being developed in dentistry throughout Latin America and 1 am sure that the dentist of the United States can n...

The present study was conducted to assess the teachers’ self efficacy on three subscales namely as Student Engagement, Instructional Strategies and Classroom Management. The main objective of the study was to determine the teachers’ self efficacy on these subscales in relation to gender, age, professional qualification, school status and nature of job. For this purpose a convenient sample of 10...

This study investigated the relationship between school session status and H1N1 influenza prevalence. Weekly means of Influenza-like-Illness (ILI) rates over the period May 1 to October 31,2009 were compared between areas where schools were and were not in session in the United States. Rates were substantially and significantly higher in areas where schools were in session. This result held sep...

EXCELLENCE: Worthy goal or dangerous desire? Is excellence a destination or a journey or an attitude? In a world and a society where the expectation is for achievement, success and winning, what should be a Lutheran school’s approach to pursuing excellence? Is excellence about achieving and surpassing standards? Or is it about the process of teaching and learning to the best of one’s ability? O...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To examine the completion rate, internal reliability, and external validity of a home affluence scale based on adolescents' reports of material circumstances in the home as a measure of family socioeconomic status. DESIGN Cross sectional survey. SETTING Data were collected from a school based study in seven schools in the north of England Cheshire over a five month period fr...

Is it reasonable to do constructive mathematics without the axiom of countable choice? Serious schools of constructive mathematics all assume it one way or another, but the arguments for it are not compelling. The fundamental theorem of algebra will serve as an example of where countable choice comes into play and how to proceed in its absence. Along the way, a notion of a complete metric space...

Although studies have shown that self-control skills (SCSs) are positively linked to both personal and interpersonal outcomes in adolescent students, studies on the putative mechanisms underlying this relationship are scarce. Drawing on Self-Determination Theory and previous studies, we theorized that the association between students' SCSs and their subjective well-being (SWB) in school may be ...

This study examines how high school boys' and girls' academic effort, in the form of math coursetaking, is influenced by members of their social contexts. The authors argue that adolescents' social contexts are defined, in part, by clusters of students (termed "local positions") who take courses that differentiate them from others. Using course transcript data from the recent Adolescent Health ...