Policy changes at the federal and state level are endeavoring to improve student achievement at schools serving children from lower-SES homes. One important strategy is the focus on using evidence-based core reading curricula to provide a consistent framework for instruction across schools. However, rarely have these curricula undergone rigorous comparative testing. Therefore, the purpose of th...

The World Health Organization lists Kenya among African countries experiencing health workforce crisis catalysed through immigration, underproduction, inconsistent quality of production and unequal distribution. Strengthening health training institutions to increase production of high-quality health workers is acknowledged as a measure to mitigate the crisis.IntraHealth International's USAID-fu...

INTRODUCTION In 2007 ESTRO proposed a revision and harmonisation of the core curricula for radiation oncologists, medical physicists and RTTs to encourage harmonised education programmes for the professional disciplines, to facilitate mobility between EU member states, to reflect the rapid development of the professions and to secure the best evidence-based education across Europe. MATERIAL A...

BACKGROUND In preparation for the initial offering of the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), Interior-Aleutians Campus Rural Nutrition Services (RNS) program, a literature review was conducted to establish the need for the proposed program and to substantiate the methodology for delivering integrated, culturally tailored postsecondary education and extension to Alaska Natives and rural Alask...

INTRODUCTION Extramural curricula developed for the purpose of sharing with other institutions have been designed to improve education on important topics in ambulatory care. We sought to assess the usage rates of these curricula among paediatric, internal medicine, and combined medicine-paediatrics residency programmes in the United States. METHODS Surveys on aspects of trainee continuity cl...

J ust over a year ago, the Association for Computing Machinery and the IEEE Computer Society jointly published the Computer Science Curricula 2013 (CS2013) (www.acm.org/education/CS2013-final-report.pdf), an update to the undergraduate computing programs guidelines they've been publishing about once every decade since 1968. If you're like most people, undergraduate computer science curricula gu...

Imperatives to eliminate racial inequalities in higher education (HE) have led calls for diversification of curricula. Qualitative evidence is growing about racially minoritised students’ perceptions their curricula and its impact on them. Yet there are no specific instruments facilitate evaluation curricular students. We examined the relationship between cultural sensitivity curriculum engagem...