We are in a changing society through which the equality of boys and girls has become a major scourge. In this study, we demonstrated in the first step, a comparative study between the scores of boys and girls in three different subjects (mathematics, physics and chemistry) at secondary level. The second was to conduct a survey through a questionnaire on the satisfaction of parents on the two ty...

The Public Schools Accountability Act of 1999 was the outcome of SB 1 sponsored by Dede Alpert and signed into law by Governor Gray Davis in March of 1999. This law mandates the ranking of all California public schools based on their Academic Performance Index (API). The law also establishes annual growth targets for each school. Schools that meet their growth targets will be eligible for finan...

Committee members and contributors Chair: Karen L. Anderson, PhD, Karen L. Anderson Audiology Consulting, Minneapolis, MN Members: Candi Bown; Nebo School District, Springville UT; Melissa R. Cohen, AuD., Cobb County Public Schools, Atlanta GA; Susan Dilmuth-Miller, AuD., East Stroudsburg University, East Stroudsburg, PA; Donna Fisher Smiley, PhD, Arkansas Children’s Hospital, Little Rock, AR; ...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to provide a descriptive profile of the availability of limited service food outlets surrounding public schools in British Columbia, Canada. METHODS Data from the 2010 Canadian Business Data Files were used to identify limited service food outlets including fast food outlets, beverage and snack food stores, delis and convenience stores. The number of fo...

Using data from Indonesia, this paper evaluates the impact of school type on academic achievement of junior secondary school students (grades 7-9). Students that graduate from public junior secondary schools, controlling for a variety of other characteristics, score 0.15 to 0.3 standard deviations higher on the national exit exam than comparable privately-schooled peers. This finding is robust ...

The major discoveries in bacteriology during the last half of the 19th century and the promise of their application to sanitation and public health practice helped to stimulate the founding of the first generation of schools of public health in North America (1, 2). Sometimes referred to as the " West Points of Public Health, " these schools at Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Columbia, Yale, Michigan, ...