BACKGROUND A school is a learning environment that contributes to the construction of personal values, beliefs, habits and lifestyles, provide convenient settings for the implementation of drug use prevention programs targeting adolescents, who are the population group at highest risk of initiating drug use. The objective of the present study was to investigate the prevalence of factors associa...

This study examined the availability of free drinking water during lunchtime in US public schools, as required by federal legislation beginning in the 2011-2012 school year. Data were collected by mail-back surveys in nationally representative samples of US public elementary, middle, and high schools from 2009-2010 to 2011-2012. Overall, 86.4%, 87.4%, and 89.4% of students attended elementary, ...

Certificates of Confidentiality, issued by agencies of the U.S. government, are regarded as an important tool for meeting ethical and legal obligations to safeguard research participants' privacy and confidentiality. By shielding against forced disclosure of identifying data, Certificates are intended to facilitate research on sensitive topics critical to the public's health. Although Certifica...

INTRODUCTION Policies and practices in schools may create environments that encourage and reinforce healthy behaviors and are thus a means for stemming the rising rates of childhood obesity. We assessed the effect of a 2005 statewide school physical activity and nutrition mandate on policies and practices in middle and high schools in Washington State. METHODS We used 2002, 2004, and 2006 st...

Students negotiate the transition to secondary school in different ways. While some thrive on the opportunity, others are challenged. A prospective longitudinal design was used to determine the contribution of personal background and school contextual factors on academic competence (AC) and mental health functioning (MHF) of 266 students, 6-months before and after the transition to secondary sc...

or issue bogus certificates; hence their unpopularity. Medicine has always been a State subject in India since time immemorial, and it is difficult to understand the present-day policy of multiplying medical schools and institutions, without finding employment for the host of graduates turned out. and?at the same time?indirectly helping quacks through the agency of district boards and municipal...

INTRODUCTION Obesity among youth is related to a decline in physical activity, and data on physical activity levels among children in elementary and middle schools are limited. METHODS We leveraged a community-school district-university partnership in Sarasota County, Florida, in May of 2005 to assess physical activity levels among tweens (youth aged 9-13 years) and to measure the relationshi...

In many respects, the distinctions between community colleges and proprietary schools are few. Proprietary schools (also referred to as career colleges and for-profit colleges) feature an array of vocational, technical, and business programming, as well as provide opportunities to complete general education courses (Hittman, 1995). Similarly, given that the mission of community colleges is to p...

E-maturity as synonym for successful integration of digital technologies in schools can be seen as the golden thread of this paper. It deals with an Austrian case study about recently conducted ICTcertifications within a ministerial e-Learning project. The process of awarding successful Austrian schools with ICT-certificates is founded on an evaluation framework which has been developed indepen...

1 Larry G. Richards, University of Virginia, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Charlottesville, Va. 229044746 Phone: 434 924 3191, [email protected] 2 Gabriel Laufer University of Virginia, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, [email protected] 3 Joseph A.C. Humphrey, University of Virginia, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, [email protected] Abstract The Virginia Middle Schools Enginee...