background:: this study aimed to quantify the prevalence of low back pain (lbp), analyze its associated risk factors and explore on how lbp affects job satisfaction among 120 school teachers in malaysia. method: a cross-sectional study was conducted among randomly selected teachers from four secondary schools in putrajaya from february to march 2015. the level of lbp was assessed using a standa...

OBJECTIVE To assess perceptions and attitudes regarding sex education among middle and high school teachers in Portugal. METHODS A study comprising 371 middle and high school teachers, both female and male, was conducted in Portugal in February and March 2006. Data was collected through snowball technique. The questionnaire was made up of two parts: the first collected data on demographics, c...

Private school salaries are substantially below those in public school systems. Nonetheless, private school heads are as satisfied as public school principals with the quality of their new teachers and substantially more satisfied with their experienced instructors. This difference remains after controlling for school and community characteristics and for the principal’s tenure and educational ...

This study focuses on the legal, policy, and contractual structures in California that are designed to place highly qualified teachers in low-income, high-minority schools as well as those that may constrain efforts to get good teachers into more difficult teaching assignments. Prior studies document that teachers in California schools with high percentages of lowincome, minority, and low-perfo...