BACKGROUND Although the scientific community has acknowledged modest improvements can be made to weight status and obesogenic behaviors (i.e., physical activity, sedentary/screen time, diet, and sleep) during the school year, studies suggests improvements are erased as elementary-age children are released to summer vacation. Emerging evidence shows children return to school after summer vacatio...

The percentage increase in faculty salaries for 1976-1977 cannot be determined until spring, according to Fr. James T. Burtchaell. university provost. Burtehaell stated yesterday that work on next year's budget has just begun. "The Budget Priorities Committee is just beginning its work," Burtchaell said. "They will be working all through the winter. We won't know about precise figures until nex...

Was Created, and What It Means for You” in the Winter 2013 issue of YTT, pp. 20-22.) IAYT launched this program for its member schools in the summer of 2013. The first accreditation decisions are expected in late spring of 2014 and will be announced at SYTAR 2014 in June. A fundamental point to understand is that IAYT accreditation applies to programs offered by IAYT Member Schools and involves an

Some medical specialties struggle to recruit sufficient trainees to their postgraduate programmes. In many countries including Ireland, psychiatry is one of these specialties. A psychiatric summer school was developed by the trainee committee of the College of Psychiatry of Ireland as a recruitment initiative. All applicants were invited to complete a questionnaire prior, on the day of and thre...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether school or nonschool environments contribute more to childhood overweight, we compared children's gains in body mass index (BMI) when school is in session (during the kindergarten and first-grade school years) with their gains in BMI when school is out (during summer vacation). METHODS The BMIs of 5380 children in 310 schools were measured as part of the Early C...

In response to widespread dissatisfaction with its public schools, California has implemented a number of educational reforms over the past decade. Perhaps the most dramatic, and certainly the most costly, was the passage of the class size reduction (CSR) law in the summer of 1996. This legislation aimed to reduce average class size by roughly one-third, from 30 students to 20, in grades kinder...

Categorial Grammars ESSLLI Notes (2005, Edinburgh, Scotland) Philippe de Groote Sylvain Pogodalla

Thi r tytwo faculty members will present the courses of instruction in education and arts. Thir teen visiting instructors will serve on the summer session faculty. They will include: Dr. Joseph Kirk Folsom. professor of economics and sociology, a t Vassar, Professor Arlie E. McGulre, head of the depar tment of j education at the Concord Sta le normal school, Athens, West Virginia, Donald M. Tow...