Are Nurses Educated to Educate?

Job satisfaction comparison between foreign educated nurses and U.S. educated nurses

Are Charter School Students Harder to Educate

One point of debate in the recent controversy in the media and among policy analysts over the academic achievement of charter school students is whether the charter students are in some way harder to educate than their counterparts enrolled in traditional public schools. In this paper we examine this question using data from the 2002-3 school year in Washington, D.C. We begin by examining a sim...

To educate or not to educate? That is the question!

How to Educate Entrepreneurs?

Entrepreneurship education has two effects: it improves students’ entrepreneurial skills and provides impetus to those suited to entrepreneurship while discouraging others. While entrepreneurship education helps students to make a vocational decision its effects may conflict for those unsuited to entrepreneurship. We show that vocational and skill formation effects of entrepreneurship education...

Immigration and contract problems experienced by foreign-educated nurses.

More than 8% of employed RNs licensed since 2004 in the United States were educated overseas, yet little is known about the conditions of their recruitment or the impact of that experience on health care practice. This study assessed whether the labor rights of foreign-educated nurses were at risk during the latest period of high international recruitment: 2003 to 2007. Using consensus-based st...