Student wastage in higher education is a problem of great importance in our society. The time has come to try to start a service to give specialised help for redeployment in continued education or in suitable employment that carries further training prospects. This would be not only a humane social service, but a real component of the educational and economic system. At present, wastage in the ...

Early retirement incentives (ERIs) are increasingly prevalent in education as districts seek to close budget gaps by replacing expensive experienced teachers with lower-cost newer teachers. Combined with the aging of the teacher workforce, these ERIs are likely to change the composition of teachers dramatically in the coming years. We use exogenous variation from an ERI program in Illinois in t...

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University researchers and teacher facilitators implemented a state-funded professional development project during the 2005-06 academic year to help county middle school teachers improve student achievement in mathematics. In this paper, we discuss lessons and results from this innovative model, whose iterative cycle includes teacher content knowledge, item analysis from a high-stakes test, ped...

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1 Assistant professor, Oral and maxillofacial radiology, Dental material research center, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran 2 Postgraduate student of pediatric dentistry, Dental material research center, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran 3 Assistant professor of endodontics, Dental material research center, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran 4 Dent...

Ileana Acevedo, MD; Abraham Yacoub, MD; John Greene, MD, FACP; Sharoon Quaiser, MD; Raphael Monta; Infectious Disease, University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa, FL; H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL; Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL; Infectious Disease, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL; Medical Student, Infectious Disease, University of South Florida-M...

1Assistant Professor, Dental Materials Research Center, Department of Pedodontics, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran. 2Assistant Professor, Dental Materials Research Center, Department of Operative Dentistry, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran. 3 Dental Student, Dental Materials Research Center, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran. 4Assistant Profess...