Neuropsychological assessment reveals that certain cognitive changes that take place during the neural development process may be associated with biopsychosocial issues. A substantial body of research has focused on cognitive development in children and adults, but few such studies have been carried out on adolescents. Therefore, research into the processing of neuropsychological functions in a...

The 1993 Survey of Household Income and Wealth, a large cross-section of the Italian population covering 24,000 individuals, reports detailed information on children’s attendance of public and private schools and parents’ assessments of the quality of public schools in the city of residence. The survey also provides detailed information on the household’s demographic structure, income and paren...

This review assesses the potential impact of large-scale voucher programs, drawing on empirical literature in economics, education, and sociology. The discussion is guided by three research questions, grounded within an economic framework. First, are private schools more efficient than public schools? Second, does the increasingly competitive schooling market promoted by vouchers cause public s...

The purpose of this study is to construct a student-based performance evaluation model for business schools in Taiwan. College graduates’ starting wage and their multiple abilities cultivated in school are used as performance indicators. The value-added forms of these indicators are employed to assess the pure impact of school on graduate’s performance. To prevent impractical indicator weights,...

AIM This study was aimed at verifying the relationship between childhood obesity and dental caries. METHOD A total of 2,651 preschool children were examined for this cross-sectional study in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil; 1,338 of them attended public schools and 1,313 private schools. The clinical data and anthropometric measurements were obtained in line with WHO criteria. Pearson chi-square a...

NATIONAL TRENDS Dental schools In 1950, there were 42 dental schools in the US, 60% of which were affi liated with private universities (Figure 1). With some government assistance and support from a growing applicant pool, the number of dental schools increased to 60 by 1978. Most of this growth was in schools that were affi liated with public universities; they represented 58% of the schools a...

The Covid-19 pandemic drastically disrupted the functioning of U.S. public schools, potentially changing relative appeal alternatives such as homeschooling and private schools. We study changes in families’ choices school sector using longitudinal student-level administrative data from Michigan nationally representative Census Household Pulse Survey. Public enrollment declined noticeably fall 2...

AIM To determine the prevalence of obesity among students between the ages of 5 and 19 in Kutahya, and to determine the factors associated with obesity prevalence. MATERIALS AND METHODS The population in the survey was formed of students between the ages of 5 and 19 in the schools of Kutahya. Within the scope of this survey, obesity was evaluated in accordance with the percentile values indic...

This paper studies the provision of schooling in British India from 1850 to 1917, when education policy was under the direct control of the East India Company and the British Crown. Although colonial policy made several recommendations to increase mass schooling, the growth of primary education generally lagged behind secondary education over most of the period. In addition to official policy, ...

This paper uses an innovative approach to evaluate educational performance of Spanish students in PISA 2009. Our purpose is to decompose their overall inefficiency between different components with a special focus on studying the differences between public and state subsidized private schools. We use a technique inspired by the non-parametric Free Disposal Hull (FDH) and the application of robu...