The University of Pittsburgh's School of Dental Medicine (SDM) is a medium-sized, private, state-related dental school. As other schools have done recently, the SDM made a substantial effort to upgrade its website in 2003. Internal satisfaction and anecdotal data notwithstanding, there is no measure of the website's usefulness in attracting applicants. We designed an anonymous survey of twenty-...

PROBLEM/CONDITION School health education (e.g., classroom instruction) is an essential component of school health programs; such education promotes the health of youth and improves overall public health. REPORTING PERIOD February-May 1998. DESCRIPTION OF SYSTEM The School Health Education Profiles monitor characteristics of health education in middle or junior high schools and senior high ...

California Senate Bill 277’s Grandfather Clause andNonmedical Vaccine Exemptions in California, 2015-2022 On June 25, 2015, California’s governor approved Senate Bill (SB) 277, a state law that substantially narrows exceptions to school-entry vaccination mandates. The law goes into effect on July 1, 2016, and California will join Mississippi and West Virginia as the third state to disallownonme...

BACKGROUND Assessment of oral reading. AIM to characterize, according to the variables of public or private school and literacy, the types of errors in word reading presented by typical elementary/middle school students considered competent readers by their teachers. METHOD Participants of this study were 151 students with ages ranging between 8 and 12 years, from the 4th to the 7th grade o...

Basic education has been listed as a priority of development efforts in poor regions around the world [1]. Distance learning has significant potential for enhancing basic education, and the benefits of information and computer technology can provide an efficient means for deploying a distance learning system. Such a system, dubbed the “Digital StudyHall,” is proposed by Wang, et. al. for deploy...

Using 1990 Census microdata, we explore ethnic, racial and immigrant differences in private school attendance. We find high rates of private school attendance among white natives, white immigrants, and Asian natives. In contrast, we find low private school rates among black and Hispanic natives and immigrants, Asian immigrants, and other natives. Variations in income per capita and especially p...

In this article, the authors present the adoption and use of school management software in Victoria, Australia as an example of the use of actor-network theory to explain technological adoption. It examines three examples of school management software and identifies the actors and interactions relating to each of these. The use of three cases in the same environment provides an interesting insi...

The evaluation of the school performance is a very important strategic field due to the great amount of public and private resources invested by the society in the non-university education. State and regional governments undergo several tests and surveys which try to measure the levels of learning attained by their students. While there is a rich literature on the main inputs that explain the s...

My dissertation examines the causes of, and one possible program to help alleviate, urban public school district enrollment decline. Enrollment decline has plighted many cities in the Northeast and Midwest over the past two decades, leading to financial struggles and, sometimes, large school closures or reorganizations. In my first essay, " Determinants of Urban Enrollment Decline " , I describ...