OBJECTIVES Investigating some pertinent factors associated with elementary education teachers' quality of life working in the Brazilian city of Florianopolis and surrounding district. METHODS 349 state and municipal school system elementary school teachers working in the city and its surrounding areas answered a questionnaire containing work-related questions and the WHO Quality of Life-BREF ...

Elementary education in Germany includes all institutions which cater for children until they begin school. Its position is ambivalent: On the one hand, it is part of the educational system (elementary level), on the other hand it is part of the welfare system as it is provided by nonpublic and public youth welfare services. Therefore one can also speak of child care institutions, which, howeve...

In New York City, where almost 14% of elementary school pupils are foreign-born and roughly half of these are "recent immigrants, " the impact of immigrant students on school resources may be important. While immigrant advocates worry about inequitable treatment of immigrant students, others worry that immigrants drain resources from native-born students. In this article, we explore the variati...

The paper is a study conducted to explore gender difference in goal orientation and learning strategies among elementary school students in relation to academic achievement. Elliot and Church’s (1997) Achievement Goal Questionnaire (AGQ) and Biggs’ (2001) revised two-factor study process Questionnaire were used to measure achievement goal orientation and learning strategies among elementary sch...

Factors affecting the seasonal distribution of norovirus outbreaks are not well understood. This study examined whether grade school settings at the start of the school year may be a factor. We searched Ovid Medline from January 2002 to June 2014 for studies that provided all reported norovirus outbreaks in a developed country by month for a minimum of three years. Historical school years were ...

BACKGROUND In the Netherlands, epidemics of vaccine preventable diseases are largely confined to an orthodox protestant minority with religious objections to vaccination. The clustering of unvaccinated children in orthodox protestant schools can foster the spread of epidemics. School closure has nevertheless not been practiced up until now. A mumps epidemic in 2007-2008 gave us an opportunity t...

OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of an active school model on children's physical activity (PA). DESIGN 16-month cluster randomised controlled trial. SETTING 10 elementary schools in Greater Vancouver, BC. PARTICIPANTS 515 children aged 9-11 years. INTERVENTION Action Schools! BC (AS! BC) is an active school model that provided schools with training and resources to increase children's PA...

This study was intended to study the effect of personal experience and subspecialization on the knowledge of epilepsy of teachers at Czech elementary schools, and on their attitudes towards children with epilepsy and on epilepsy itself in general. 193 teachers from 10 different elementary schools in Pilsen, Czech Republic, were involved in the study. We found that teachers with personal experie...

While many studies have conducted the achievement gap between groups of students in school districts, few studies have utilized resilience research to investigate achievement gaps within classrooms. This paper aims to summarize and discuss some recent studies Waxman, Padrón, and their colleagues conducted, in which they examined learning environment differences between resilient and nonresilien...