Understanding Teacher Hiring Practices in Rural, Urban, Suburban Schools in the United States

Health System Reform in the United States

In 2010, the United States adopted its first-ever comprehensive set of health system reforms in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Implementation of the law, though politically contentious and controversial, has now reached a stage where reversal of most elements of the law is no longer feasible. The controversial portions of the law that expand affordable health insurance coverage to most U.S. cit...

Relationship between therapeutic use and abuse of opioid analgesics in rural, suburban, and urban locations in the United States.

PURPOSE The goal of these studies was to determine the relationship between prescribed use of opioid analgesics and their non-medically related use (abuse) at a regional level across the country. METHODS To gather information about prescription drug abuse, we asked 233 drug abuse treatment specialists to provide us Quarterly reports on the number of cases of prescription opioid analgesic abus...

Sex education in rural schools in the United States: impact of rural educators’ community identities

Purpose: The overall purpose of this exploratory research was to better understand rural educators’ feelings about school-based sex education in order to foster better communication and collaboration between prevention researchers and rural teachers and administrators. In order to accomplish this purpose, the research question asked ‘How does perceived community identity influence rural educato...

Effective Schools: Teacher Hiring, Assignment, Development, and Retention

The literature on effective schools emphasizes the importance of a quality teaching force in improving educational outcomes for students. In this article we use valueadded methods to examine the relationship between a school’s effectiveness and the recruitment, assignment, development, and retention of its teachers. Our results reveal four key findings. First, we find that more effective school...

The Urban/Suburban/Rural Cleavage in Canadian Political Opinion By