Education Vouchers: The Right to Choose or to Own? M. H. Hassani Shalmaani, Ph.D. Using education vouchers is one way of increasing parental access to schools and hence, creating rightful choices for them in regard to schools. Since such rights require governmental cooperation, it is necessary to delineate the boundaries of parental rights in order to clarify if the parents have s...

this research is a comparative study of entrepreneurial characteristics of founders of non-governmental high school in tehran. the research population was the female and male’s founders of non-governmental high school in tehran (totally 507 persons). the sample was 213 people (90 women and 123 men) were selected by cluster sampling. the data were collected through questionnaire that measured tw...

Administrators at 68% of 4-year colleges nationwide (N = 747) responded to a survey concerning the types of programs and policies they used in response to students’ heavy drinking. Most schools conducted targeted alcohol education and invested in institutional prevention efforts; half conducted social norms campaigns; a sizeable minority restricted alcohol on campus. Schools that focused on dem...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the perceptions and opinions of dental students from two different Dentistry Schools in Brazil, both known here as Dentistry Schools 1 and 2 about the Family Health Program FHP. The study analyzed if the Dentistry Schools had any influence on the students, graduating professionals with humanitarian and social sensibility, which are considered very impor...

Members of the Education Committee of the Brazilian Society of Physiology have developed multiple outreach models to improve the appreciation of science and physiology at the precollege level. The members of this committee act in concert with important Brazilian governmental strategies to promote training of undergraduate students in the teaching environment of secondary and high schools. One o...

The School Lunch Program in India (SLP) is the largest food and nutrition assistance program feeding millions of children every day. This paper provides a review of the background information on the SLP in India earlier known as national program for nutrition support to primary education (NP-NSPE) and later as mid day meal scheme, including historical trends and objectives and components/charac...

background and purpose: schools are the most appropriate and reliable places for training and educating students. if health principles are not observed in schools, students will be prone to different kinds of health problems. thus the aim of this research is to study the environmental indices in primary schools in the behshahr city in 2012. materials and methods: this is a cross sectional descr...

Peaceful Coexistence? The Role of Religious Schools and NGOs in the Growth of Female Secondary Schooling in Bangladesh BRAC, a non-governmental organization (NGO), runs a large number of non-formal primary schools in Bangladesh which target out-of-school children from poor families. These schools are well-known for their effectiveness in closing gender gap in primary school enrolment. On the ot...