Acknowledgement This preliminary research is possible thanks to a grant from the Dean of Education Office at The University of Western Ontario. The grant program is set up to give faculty members the opportunity to formulate larger research grant proposals as well as investigate issues related to policy and planning in formal education. In this instance I want to pursue a historical and present...

In many countries, notably Sweden, Norway and Argentina, followed by Switzerland, Germany and the United States, schemes, dealing more or less effectively with the complex problem of school hygiene have gradually been evolved, generally springing from local municipal effort, later becoming centralised ; but in England there were few centres in which any serious attention had been given to the m...

This paper analyzes the impact of the education funding component of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (the Recovery Act) on public school districts. We use crosssectional differences in district-level Recovery Act funding to investigate the program’s impact on staffing, expenditures and debt accumulation. To achieve identification, we use exogenous variation across districts i...

Open-Air Schools. By Leonard P. Ayres, Ph.D. New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1910. As a matter of fact we do not need Dr. Ayres' convincing representation of the splendid work done by open-air schools or the delightful photographs scattered through the volume to arouse our enthusiasm. The very name is sufficient. Open-air Schools! Let him who has never held his aching head in a stuffy sc...

OBJECTIVE To examine the policy, administration, and supervision of medicine administration in primary schools within the Greater London area (GLA). DESIGN A prospective survey using postal questionnaires sent to 172 randomly selected primary schools within the GLA. PARTICIPANTS Head teachers of primary schools. RESULTS Some 65% of head teachers replied. Less than 50% of responding head t...

INTRODUCTION Federal and state policies identify schools as a setting to prevent childhood obesity, but schools need better health-promoting strategies. The objective of this study was to evaluate interim progress in schools receiving hands-on training from the Healthy Schools Program, the nation's largest school-based program aimed at preventing childhood obesity. The 4-year program targets sc...

The purpose of this paper is to review the process of ICT adoption in Ugandan schools for facilitation of teaching and learning in the last decade. This review is done in order to examine how beneficial e-skills have enhanced teaching and learning in Ugandan schools, and to identify the outstanding challenges the schools have had in e-skills adoption. When ICT started gaining popularity in Ugan...

The aim of this study was to evaluate predoctoral complete denture curricula in the dental schools of Turkey in terms of materials, techniques, and approaches. A questionnaire with twenty-two multiple-choice questions was prepared and sent by e-mail to the directors of the prosthodontic departments of the seventeen long-established dental schools in Turkey. All schools responded for a response ...

As the school choice options have evolved over recent years, it is important to have an understanding of what family and school factors are associated with enrollment decisions of households. In this paper, we use restricted-access data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS), which allows us to identify household location from a nationally representative sample of individuals and to...