How students should be allocated to schools to achieve educational goals is one of important debates on the construction of school systems. Promoters of comprehensive and selective school systems fail to reach a consensus on implications of each system for efficiency and equity of education. This paper examines impacts of different systems of student allocation on educational goals, using a sim...

Cancer-related educational content and goals should be modified to the needs of Native Americans to ensure adherence to healthy lifestyles. The current article describes the development of cancer-related educational modules that include creating behavioral goals specific to the people of the Comanche Nation. A community-based participatory research approach was used to conduct focus groups in t...

educational innovations are concerned with application of new ideas in educationalsystems. inclusive learning friendly environment (ilfe) may be considered as an educational innovation. through the ilfe, educational and learning opportunities could be planned and implemented for school age population without discrimination on the basis of sex, physical disabilities, language, ethnic, etc. diffe...

This paper is intended to compare information retrieval (IR) educational goals in different academic and professional areas such as Library and Information Science (LIS) and Health Sciences (HS), analysing and identifying a shift on user seeking goals in the digital era and, eventually, on educational goals as well. It starts with a section on information literacy where several aspects are spec...

Development strategies invariably include education and human capital improvement as important components. These tend to focus on quantitative goals, such as achieving certain levels of educational enrolment or attainment. Thus, the two Millennium Development Goals that refer to education – universal primary education and gender parity by 2015 – are solely phrased in terms of educational quanti...