Daniel Kantor, MD WHAT QUESTION DID THE RESEARCHERS IN THIS STUDY ASK? The researchers in this study tackle an often overlooked problem: how migraine headache affects the school performance of children.1 It is bad enough to have migraines as an adult (it may mean missing work, family functions, or social time), but migraines, which often begin in childhood, can have a negative impact on the dev...

Eric Hanushek is a Professor of Economics and Public Policy and Director of the W. Allen Wallis Institute of Political Economy at the University of Rochester. He joined the University of Rochester in 1978 and has previously been Director of the university's Public Policy Analysis Program and Chairman of the Department of Economics. From 1983–85, he was Deputy Director of the Congressional Budge...

Combining universal access to school with excel lence has been a his toric di lemma in U.S. schools. This dynamic tension is appearing in other nations as well as information age occupations demand highly literate workforces. Schools have adopted multilevel reform efforts to mee t the chal lenges o f educat ing today’s children. These efforts include: changes in teacher preparation; high expect...

Die keuring van studentverpleegsters skep spesifieke probleme vir verpleegadministrateurs en skoolprestasie skyn een van die min objektiewe keurmiddels te wees. Die resultate van hierdie studie toon dat daar wel beduidende verskille bestaan met betrekking tot prestasie in skoolvakke tussen studente wat hul opleiding voltooi het en die wat hul opieiding gestaak het. Kosteimplikasies van kortdien...

Government education policy in England, like in the US, has been increasingly geared towards increasing competitiveness between schools, at both primary and secondary levels. Theory suggests that in a world where parental preference over school quality has a key role to play in school admissions, competition for pupils between neighbouring schools could provide performance incentives, and paren...

POGO is a distributed learning environment that allows children to create stories by connecting physical and virtual worlds. The environment is composed of several interactive tools that children use to compose, edit and perform stories. Together with teachers, five pedagogical objectives were defined as goals to be achieved in narrative. The pedagogical objectives drove the entire POGO design ...

To review the state of research on the association between physical activity among school-aged children and academic outcomes, the author reviewed published studies on this topic. A table includes brief descriptions of each study's research methodology and outcomes. A review of the research demonstrates that there may be some short-term improvements of physical activity (such as on concentratio...

In a retrospective study, we compared school performance of 53 children practicing music (group 1) with 67 controls not practicing music (group 2). Overall average marks as well as average marks of all school subjects except sports were significantly higher in children who do (group 1) than in those who do not practice music (group 2). In a multiple regression analysis, musical training, parent...

This paper describes a Bayesian Network model to diagnose the causes of low effectiveness of certain schools. Our aim is to build tools to assist policymakers in education to think through a policy, evaluate various scenarios, and choose among competing policy options. These tools would help decision makers to make their tacit knowledge more explicit, and assimilate and systematize information ...

This program evaluation estimates the effects on standardized test scores of graduating from the Fe y Alegría private school system in Venezuela. We find an Average Treatment Effect on the order of 0.1 standard deviations, using a control group of public school students. We posit that the better performance of the.Fe y Alegría system stems from their labor contract flexibility and decentralized...