Educational reform is a dynamic process that continues to haunt small island developments. After the two bold steps taken recently in Mauritius, namely regionalisation and the abolition of ranking at CPE level, there now seems to be a pause except for continued construction of schools. Whilst these developments seemed to be initially welcomed by the population in general, it has raised a number...

This article contributes to the International Study of Leadership Development Network initiative to identify high-need schools around the globe by focusing on a small minority ethnic school in the country of Georgia. It will be clear in this article that the challenges the Karajala School administrator faces in this former Soviet bloc school stand as an example of the educational disadvantages ...

This paper examines educational outcomes of pupils selected to secondary school types by different tracking regimes in a German state: The traditional regime of streaming pupils after fourth grade of elementary school is compared to a regime in which pupils are selected into different secondary school tracks after sixth grade. Descriptive evidence demonstrates that the proportion of pupils reac...

Those concerned with educational policy face a stark reality: the students failing to achieve even minimal levels of educational achievement typically are taught by individuals whose qualifications are relatively weakest and often inadequate. These same students are most dependent upon their teachers and schools for academic learning, as nearly all of them come from disadvantaged home and commu...

The associations between environmental lead exposure and high school educational outcomes in four communities located in New South Wales, Australia, were examined in this ecological study. A mixed model analysis was performed to account for each school's results being more similar than results for other schools. The effect of environmental lead exposure on mean results for five educational outc...

Medical schools in the twenty first century, have undergone drastic changes in their teaching methodologies worldwide, more specifically in the teaching of anatomy. The main goal of any educational institution is the transfer of knowledge from educator to student in an effective manner. This review attempts to bring together the different teaching methodologies used in medical schools in this n...

Schools have long been central to community-based alcohol, tobacco, and other drug (ATOD) prevention programs. Schools are often the first resort when ATOD problems become obvious; policymakers, media, and citizens demand more comprehensive educational programs for students. These programs often focus on educating children when they are very young in the hope that they will learn to avoid the p...

This study describes a survey (n=700) carried out in 14 elementary schools in the municipality of Caxias, State of Maranhão, Brazil. The survey was conducted between July and De-cember 2007 in schools from seven neighborhoods on the outskirts of the western part of the municipality , where for the past three years high densities of immature Aedes aegypti mosquitoes have been recorded. The stude...

In this short note, we give a brief introduction to the status of technology usage in mathematics education in China. We first introduce the government’s effort to build the infrastructure for CAI. Then we discuss representative CAI software systems developed in China. Finally we discuss efforts to integrate technology and education in middle schools, and curriculum developments. 1 Infrastructu...