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WHEN I INVENTED THE ANNUAL CHALLENGE INDEX rankings of American high schools 23 years ago, I considered them just a stunt to publicize a book I had written. My book, [...]

THE BAD BOY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE IS IN TROUBLE again. He has always been in trouble, first with Louisa May Alcott in 1885, then the New York City Public Schools [...]

This research examined the dating/romantic experiences of international students (N=111) at two universities in the United States. Gender was a significant factor in dating perceptions. Women, compared to men, perceived cultural differences to pose a greater challenge in dating American students. Male international students, as compared to females, were more open to dating Americans, someone from another country, or someone of another religion. Regarding living a double life, 31% of the male and 20% of the female international students reported that their parents did not know about their romantic love life in the United States. Symbolic interaction theory was used to interpret the data., Introduction New immigration policies advanced by the Trump administration have resulted in an increased awareness of the presence of international students on campus. Almost a million (975,000) international students are [...]

Early childhood home visiting (HV) services are expanding broadly across the United States. Supported by federal policy, HV is now an integral part of maternal and child health services. However, no nationally representative estimate of HV use is available and no research has compared HV use across states. The 2011/12 National Survey on Children's Health was used to estimate the national and state prevalence of HV use for children 0-3 years. Generalized linear mixed modeling was used to predict HV use. An estimated 2,137,044 US children and families received HV during pregnancy and up to child age of 3 years. State HV prevalence range was 3.7-30.6 %. Nationally, 19.1 % of children below the federal poverty line received HV services. Although family poverty increased the odds of receiving HV services, higher rates of child poverty at the state level predicted less use of HV services. Important predictors of HV use include infant/child need factors (health risk, adverse experiences), predisposing factors (family size), and enabling factors (insurance type). This study provides the first estimates of national and state HV service use. Although findings indicate HV services are targeted to children at elevated risk for poor physical or developmental outcomes, our estimates show the vast majority of at-risk children did not receive HV services, including more than 80 % of low-income children, 76 % of preterm infants, and 57 % of very low birth weight infants. Increasing HV service availability could decrease negative health outcomes for young children., Author(s): Paul Lanier[sup.1] , Kathryn Maguire-Jack[sup.2] , Hannah Welch[sup.1] Author Affiliations: (1) UNC-Chapel Hill School of Social Work, 325 Pittsboro Street, 27599, Chapel Hill, NC, USA (2) The Ohio State [...]

The birth of the neoliberal university might be traced back to 1996, when a relatively unknown associate professor of Comparative Literature at the Universite de Montreal caused a stir by [...]

Almost sixty years after the 1954 landmark ruling of Brown v. Board of Education, which declared that separate but equal education was unconstitutional, American schools are still woefully unequal along [...]

I am from Denmark, often described as one of the 'happiest countries in the world' (Helman, 2011). One factor that contributes to Denmark's high rating in terms of citizen life [...]

The role of education in economic growth has been clearly established. This address is concerned with several issues: What are the benefits and costs of education? Where does the United [...]

Between 1990 and 2007, the number of Catholic schools in the United States decreased by 14% and enrollment diminished by 7%. We generate two measures of publicity of sexual abuse at the diocesan level--public disclosure and news coverage. Dioceses with higher rates of negative publicity had a larger decline in both the number of Catholic schools and overall Catholic school enrollment. We estimate that publicity arising from sexual offenders within the Church explains 5% of the decline in the availability of Catholic schooling. (JEL I21, H52, H44), I. INTRODUCTION Catholic education makes up a large part of the United States' K-12 educational system: Catholic schools educate over one-third of all private school students, more elementary and secondary [...]

The 'higher education system' in the United States has metastasized to the point that the body politic will soon be unable to sustain it. Tuition and fees have grown at [...]

Collegiate attainment has not kept pace with increases in the demand for skilled workers in the United States. The widely-noted increase in the wage premium to college completion since the [...]

A study of 'enrollment management' in American liberal arts colleges to determine value-subverting management innovations is presented. The study revealed the harmless innovation's value-undermining effects. It also identified the organizational and environmental factors that have made these types of colleges more or less vulnerable to its adoption.

College grade point averages in the United States rose substantially between the 1960s and the 2000s. Over the same period, study time declined by almost a half This paper uses a 12-quarter panel of course evaluations from the University of California, San Diego to discern whether a link between grades and effort investment holds up in a micro setting. Results indicate that average study time would be about 50% lower in a class in which the average expected grade was an 'A' than in the same course taught by the same instructor in which students expected a 'C.' Simultaneity suggests estimates are biased toward O. Findings do not appear to be driven primarily by the individual student's expected grade, but by the average expected grade of others in the class. Class-specific characteristics that generate low expected grades appear to produce higher effort choices--evidence that nominal changes in grades may lead to real changes in effort investment. (JEL 121, J22, J24), I. INTRODUCTION A substantial rise over time in grade point averages (GPAs) at colleges in the United States has been documented, debated, lamented, and theorized about, but empirical evidence on [...]

This paper examines levels of financial literacy across students in the US, Belarus, and Japan. A cross country comparative analysis of the levels of financial literacy was conducted using descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, and hypothesis testing. We find that Japanese students, overall, outscored all others in the sample regardless of coursework in personal finance or grade level. Belarusian high school students performed on a par with US high school students without a separate personal finance class and both were outscored by Belarusian college students. Students across all three nations demonstrated highest achievement on the topic of Earning Income and lowest achievement on the topic of Saving. Results by cognitive levels demonstrate that both Belarusian and Japanese students performed better at the knowledge level while American students generally scored higher at the application level., INTRODUCTION Financial literacy is very important for any society to be successful and competitive in a global community. Financially and economically literate people will make informed decisions as consumers, producers, [...]

The role of education in upward social mobility and on health outcomes is examined. In particular, the long term health effects of mandated school desegregation is examined.