School Feeding Programme strategies enable primary pupils to qualify for high nutritious school meals, comprehensive health package and services. The purpose of the study was establish how meals programme strategies, monitoring evaluation practices influence learner participation in Public Primary Schools Makueni County, Kenya. objective article is examine regular provision during days anchored...

1Department of Neurology, G. H. Sergievsky Center, Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA 2Department of Medicine, Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada M55 1A8 3Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA 4Depar...

Under most conceivable scenarios of expanded choice, even with private school vouchers, the public school system will still remain the majority supplier of schooling. Therefore, it is important to know what might happen to quality and outcomes in the remaining public schools. This paper examines the effect of public school competition on academic achievement. The empirical analysis has two majo...

Objective. Many organization theories suggest that divergent goals can hamper an organization’s pursuit of its primary mission. This study analyzes the effect of the pursuit of divergent goals on American public schools. Methods. Using an educational production function, this paper assesses the relationships between athletic budgets and various aggregate measures of academic performance. Result...

We examine Illinois educational data from standardized exams and analyze primary factors affecting the achievement of public school students. We focus on the simplest possible models: representation of data through visualizations and regressions on single variables. Exam scores are shown to depend on school type, location, and poverty concentration. For most schools in Illinois, student test sc...

BACKGROUND The basic purpose of medical schools is to educate physicians to care for the national population. Fulfilling this goal requires an adequate number of primary care physicians, adequate distribution of physicians to underserved areas, and a sufficient number of minority physicians in the workforce. OBJECTIVE To develop a metric called the social mission score to evaluate medical sch...

Despite the substantial growth of private schooling in developing countries in the past three decades, there has been little attention paid to the question of how public schools are experiencing and responding to competition in these contexts. To address this research gap, I conduct a competitionfocused analysis using primary survey data collected from two districts with high private school mar...

Much has been gained by the EIA. By the deadline, 100% of school systems were in compliance, and no waivers were granted. The percentage of students in temporary classrooms declined from 5.4% to 4.2%. The number of systems with facilities rated “Poor” declined from 16 to 8, and the actual number of “Poor” schools went down from 44 to 20. In the 5-year period examined in this study, the number o...

This report follows a GAO testimony in March 2008 and focuses on the primary reform approaches the District has taken. This report examines the steps the District took to: (1) address student academic achievement; (2) strengthen the quality of teachers and principals; (3) develop longterm plans and involve stakeholders; and (4) improve accountability and performance of the D.C. public schools (...