Locally elected school boards have the authority and responsibility to decide how school budgets will be spent. In doing so, however, they must balance multiple funding restrictions and competing priorities. Despite great variance in local circumstances, most school districts have remarkably similar spending patterns, generally allocating from 60% to 63% of their budget to instruction and divid...

background the learning environment dramatically affects the learning outcomes of students. noise, inappropriate temperature, insufficient light, overcrowded classes, misplaced boards and inappropriate classroom layout all make up factors that could be confounding variables distracting students in class. this study was conducted to examine the effect of noise in educational institutions on the ...

Both authors contributed equally to the paper. We are grateful to Jerry Davis, Ranjay Gulati, Paul Hirsch, Willie Ocasio. Toby Stuart, Brian Uzzi, and seminar participants at Carnegie Mellon University, the Harvard Business School, and UCLA for comments and suggestions on earlier versions of this paper. The paper has also benefited from the helpful comments of Mark Mizruchi and the anonymous re...

Politicians are pushing school boards to do more ensure students leave with the financial literacy skills they will need navigate an increasingly complex marketplace. Financial education must start early achieve this goal, yet there has been very little Canadian research on at elementary level. This exploratory study used anonymous, online survey gain a preliminary understanding of full-time On...

The prevention of illness and premature death and the promotion of health has attracted able minds from the beginning. Public health as a cause has always offered substantial though often intangible rewards. It has become a profession in itself, offering essential satisfactions to thousands of people who devote their careers to this cause. It is astonishing how this cause has gradually amalgama...

IN HIS Annual Report for 1909 the Chief Medical Officer to the Board of Education, George Newman, was moved to describe the performance by the London County Council (LCC) of its statutory duty under the Education (Administrative Provisions) Act of 1907 to provide for the medical inspection of children attending schools in its area as constituting a failure "without parallel".' Although the disp...

the purpose of this reseach was to examine the influence of resin consumption gradient and press time on the physical and mechanical properties of particleboard produced from citrus tree residues. four resin consumption gradients; 0, 2, 4 and 6% difference between surface and core layers (10-10%, 11-9%, 12-8% and 13-7%) and two press times of 4 and 5 minutes were applied and totally 24 laborato...

The prominent Top Trading Cycles (TTC) mechanism has attractive properties for school choice, as it is strategy-proof, Pareto efficient, and allows school boards to guide the assignment by specifying priorities. However, the common combinatorial description of TTC does little to explain the relationship between student priorities and their eventual assignment. This creates difficulties in trans...

Modern and innovative management in education requires full commitment to work, responsibility efficiency performing tasks that ultimately leads the success or failure of manager. When managerial function is performed educational process, scientific research activity, then related a number other factors produce character institution, such as specifics their business, wider importance these inst...