PURPOSE To characterize, according to the school grade and the type of school (private or public), the performance on orthographic and narrative text production in the writing of Elementary School students with good academic performance, and to investigate the relationships between these variables. METHODS Participants were 160 children with ages between 8 and 12 years, enrolled in 4th to 7th...

Background: important reading performance measurements are related to how and to what extent a child understands a written text. Aim: to study the performance of primary school (Ensino Fundamental) students in reading comprehension tasks according to the variables grade and type of school. Method: 160 students from the 3rd to the 6th grades were screened and later evaluated based on the retelli...

Under most conceivable scenarios of expanded choice, even with private school vouchers, the public school system will still remain the majority supplier of schooling. Therefore, it is important to know what might happen to quality and outcomes in the remaining public schools. This paper examines the effect of public school competition on academic achievement. The empirical analysis has two majo...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of overweight and obesity among children and adolescents in Chennai, India, using national and international age- and sex- specific body mass index (BMI) cut-off points. METHODS The Obesity Reduction and Awareness and Screening of Non communicable diseases through Group Education in Children and Adolescents (ORANGE) project is a cross-sectional study carr...

BACKGROUND Active transportation to school provides an important way for children to meet physical activity recommendations. The "walking school bus" (WSB) is a strategy whereby adults walk with a group of children to and from school along a fixed route. This study assessed whether school-organized WSB programs varied by school characteristics, district policies, and state laws. METHODS Schoo...

Advocates of school choice argue that tax support of public schools distorts the incentives faced by both the consumers and producers of schooling. They recommend removing this distortion by providing vouchers to subsidize students should they choose to attend private schools. Some reformers see vouchers as a panacea, which will not only enhance the opportunities of poor youth by enabling them ...

Few studies have examined the symptoms of anxiety among students in Nigeria. This article describes prevalence, severity, and gender differences anxiety, as well factors that engender fear public versus private secondary school A convenience sample 502 from three five schools southwest Nigeria completed a questionnaire scale classroom. Findings show obsessive-compulsive disorder (n = 104, 20.7%...

Education is one major public service in which quasi-markets and other choice-based mechanisms are now established methods of delivery. The types of school people choose, and the extent to which their choices are realized, have a fundamental impact on the outcomes of any mechanism of school choice. In this article, we provide a comparative analysis of the school choice strategies of middle-clas...

BACKGROUND Soil transmitted helminth infections are among the most common human infections. They are distributed throughout the world with high prevalence rates in tropical and sub-tropical countries mainly because of lack of adequate sanitary facilities, inappropriate waste disposal systems, lack of safe water supply, and low socio-economic status. METHODS A comparative cross sectional study...