Using data from the Longitudinal Study of American Youth (LSAY), the present study examined whether early acceleration of students into formal algebra at the beginning of middle school promoted evident growth in different mathematical areas (basic skills, algebra, geometry, and quantitative literacy) and stable growth across these mathematical areas. Results of multivariate multilevel analyses ...

This paper reports the findings of a survey of medical students' attitudes toward torture and discusses variables that may correlate with those attitudes. In late 2016, 483 enrolled medical and MD-PhD students at the Weill Cornell Medical College received an anonymous, institutional review board-approved survey that included questions about torture and its effectiveness, demographic questions, ...

In 1996, students with learning disabilities enrolled at Boston University (BU) brought a class action lawsuit in U.S. district court claiming discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and other federal and state laws. In August 1997, federal district court Judge Patti B. Saris found that, in a number of significant respects, BU had violated the students' rights under the A...

informed consent and study participants' rights. However, there is another aspect of human rights that are violated daily in medical research, both in developing and developed countries. These are the rights of young researchers and students. One can find this problem deep in the roots of institutes which promote its faculty members on basis of research papers. It is not isolated to the develop...

BACKGROUND The complicity of the South African health sector in apartheid and the international relevance of human rights as a professional obligation prompted moves to include human rights competencies in the curricula of health professionals in South Africa. A Train-the-Trainers course in Health and Human Rights was established in 1998 to equip faculty members from health sciences institution...

ENCOURAGING HUMAN RIGHTS TEACHING IN THE COMMONWEALTH AND OTHERCOMMON LAW COUNTRIESMeera MathweLLM StudentIndian Law Institute, New Delhi, India Human rights, as universally accepted rights, create accountability against all kinds of dejure and de facto discrimination. The human development and prosperity are possible onlywhen rights are given its due significance. Histo...

BACKGROUND Health care is a basic human right, and Saudi Arabia affirms these rights for all its citizens. OBJECTIVES To assess the knowledge of medical students regarding health rights in Saudi Arabia. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted at King Abdulaziz University (KAU) from September 2015 through November 2015. A questionnaire written in English collected demographic data a...