Dr. Weaver is Associate Director, Center for Educational Policy and Research; Ms. Chmar is Policy Analyst, Center for Educational Policy and Research; Dr. Haden is Associate Executive Director and Director, Center for Educational Policy and Research; and Dr. Valachovic is Executive Director—all at the American Dental Education Association. Direct correspondence and request for reprints to Dr. R...

BACKGROUND Ensuring the use of research evidence in health system management and policy decisions is an important challenge in this century. Knowledge transfer and exchange (KTE) has emerged as a paradigm to address the challenges and start closing the 'know-do' gap. This area of work is gaining momentum in most developed countries, yet, to date, no work has been performed in Israel within this...

James P. Spillane is an associate professor of education and social policy and a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, 2115 North Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208–2615, USA; e-mail: [email protected]. His research explores the policy-implementation process at the state, school district, school, and classroom levels, focusing on inter-governmental...

Background Migration is difficult to measure because it is highly repeatable. Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems (HDSSs) provide a unique opportunity to study migration as multiple episodes of migration are captured over time. A conceptual framework is needed to show the public health implications of migration. Objective/design Research conducted in seven HDSS centres [International Ne...

Secular variation in the heritability of educational attainment are proposed to be due to the implementation of more egalitarian educational policies leading to increased equality in educational opportunities in the second part of the 20th century. The action of effect is hypothesized to be a decrease of shared environmental (e.g., family socioeconomic status or parents' education) influences o...

The purpose of this work was to know the scientific evidence on educational policy in a systematic review from 2018 2020 Latin America. For it, made according PRISMA guidelines articles found Scopus, Scielo, ProQuest and Ebscohost databases. results indicate existence inequalities policies different systems, stating that determining factors are: inclusion equality, importance funding, curriculu...