This paper presents some ideas to preschool educators and policy makers about how to make validated educational models central in standards for preschool education-and-care programs that are available to all 3-and 4-year-olds. An educational model is a coherent body of program practices, curriculum content, program and child assessment, and teacher training. Educational models are meant to cont...

This paper investigates the extent to which cleanup durations at Superfund sites reflect demographic biases incongruent with the principles of Environmental Justice. We argue that the duration of cleanup, conditional on a large number of site characteristics, should be independent of the race and income profile of the neighborhood in which the site is located. Since the demographic composition ...

Medical education shaped by the learning sciences can better serve medical students, residents, faculty, health care institutions, and patients. With increasing innovation in undergraduate and graduate medical education and more focused attention on educational principles and how people learn, this era of educational transformation offers promise. Principles manifest in "educational continuity"...

— This paper introduces a graphical language to support the creation of computational models of educational units: PoEML (Perspective-oriented EML). In general, EMLs (Educational Modelling Languages) are devoted to support the modelling of educational units. PoEML approaches the modelling of educational units following the separation-of-concerns principle. The main idea underlying PoEML is to b...

Spirituality is an essential component of the care of patients with serious illness and those that are dying. Dame Cicely Saunders developed the hospice movement based on the biopsychosocialspiritual model of care, in which all four dimensions are important in the care of patients. Of all the models of care, hospice and palliative care recognize the importance of spiritual issues in the care of...

Educators and trainers at all levels are interested in deploying game-based environments and virtual environments as innovative educational tools and intelligent training systems, especially in application areas that involve challenging task activities. However, many development technologies are difficult to use, especially for those who are not specialists in building computer-based systems. I...

BACKGROUND Health expectancies vary worldwide according to socioeconomic status (SES), with health disadvantages being evident among lower SES groups. Using educational attainment as a proxy of SES, we seek to identify trends in SES differentials in health by gender, with a particular focus on individuals with low educational attainment in the adult Catalan population (Spain) aged 55 or older. ...

in recent decades, the concept of cultural capital has created a lot of scientific studies over the world in the sociology of education. these studies mainly based on the two models: bourdieu's cultural reproduction and dimaggio's cultural mobility. these have achieved different results. this study aimed at evaluating the theoretical models in an empirical condition. middle and high school stud...

Sustainability learning requires the assimilation of domain-specific knowledge and the development of mindsets suitable to engage in complex system dynamics to foster sustainable action. There is a need for bespoke educational models and practical tools to foster sustainability learning. Digital games can answer such need, due to their remarkable potential to wholly engage players in sustainabi...

M eeting the educational demands of the future will be expensive; however, in most states, public schools from kindergarten through the university level already experience budgetary challenges. Policymakers in many states face the challenge of motivating taxpayers to provide the funds required to meet mounting educational needs. Taxpayers who do not have children in public school may question w...