OBJECTIVE To study the feasibility of enforcing immunization certificate check before children enroll in primary schools or kindergartens in Guizhou Province. METHODS Quantitative and qualitative studies were conducted. The multi-stage and cluster sampling approach was adopted for the quantitative part of the study. A questionnaire was designed and 996 children and their keepers were intervie...

The paper introduces a directory of Schools of Librarianship and Information Sciences in Latin America. This was based on existing printed directories, and an extensive web search in January 2007. An appended directory lists 127 instituions in the region that have or are currently offering courses in the subject, of which 100 appear to be active.

Optimal Positioning of Middle Schools within the City of Dehdasht through a Combination of Boolean Logic and FAHP M.A. Firoozi, Ph.D. P. Rahmaani N. Hosseini Shahpariyaan M. Fereydoonnejaad Optimal positioning of schools is of much interest to planners because the rapid increase in population and structural changes within the cities could lead to distribution problems if not fo...

following the widespread acceptance of multiple intelligences theory, thomas armstrong (1984), in the initiative action, integrated it with bloom's taxonomy and enriched the theory. actually, armstrong helped remarkable by this integration to classify each of multiple intelligences in each of the six levels of cognitive domain, as well as better planning and targeting and designing curricu...

We exploit data from middle schools in Seoul, South Korea, where students and teachers are randomly assigned to classrooms, and find that female students taught by a female versus a male teacher score higher on standardized tests compared to male students even four years later. We also find that having a female math teacher in 7th grade increases the likelihood that female students take higher-...

OBJECTIVE To examine those factors associated with the use of different types of ambulatory health services in a rural adolescent population. METHODS The student bodies of 2 middle schools and 2 high schools in rural areas in a mid Atlantic state (N = 1615) were surveyed using a self-administered health status and health services use instrument. Logistic regression was used to assess factors ...

In this study, teachers from several middle schools in New Jersey who were enrolled in a graduate mathematics class for middle school teachers were observed in their schools to determine the effects of sustained professional development on standards-based teaching habits. These teachers, along with a control group from the same schools, were rated on a rubric and their scores compared using per...

Despite the general agreement that US schools have become increasingly punitive since the 1980s, researchers are uncertain about what types of schools use toughon-crime measures. Some assert that punitive control is concentrated in poor, predominantly ethnic minority schools. Governing-through-crime scholars argue that US schools with mostly middle-class and white students are also punitive, bu...