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Deal or No Deal? The Effects of Deregulation on Public School Leaders’ Support for Private School Choice in California

International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership, 2020
Public school leaders might be more likely to support private school voucher programs if they are enacted alongside public school deregulations. We use a survey experiment to examine the effects of public school deregulations on actual public school ...
Corey A. DeAngelis, Lindsey M. Burke
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Global Efforts to Reduce Paediatric Cancer Care Disparities in Radiotherapy: A Decade Change

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background We present an update on the status, needs and challenges faced by paediatric imaging and radiotherapy (RT) programmes globally after a previous survey conducted by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) 10 years prior. Methods We developed and distributed a 121‐question survey to radiation oncologists, medical physicists and ...
Raymond B. Mailhot Vega, Daniel J. Indelicato, Jeanette Parkes, Natia Esiashvili, Josué Hernández Benítez, Miriam Mikhail‐Lette, Olivera Cirajc Bjelac, Daniel Berger, Eva Ciurana, Yavuz Anacak, Lisbeth Cordero‐Mendez   +10 more
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Juxtaposing some contradictory findings from international research on school choice [PDF]

, 2009
Research over the last twenty years on school choice and local markets in education has been contradictory or inconclusive: some supports the movement to give parents more freedom in choosing schools; other findings support the view that greater choice ...
Kelly, Anthony
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Neuropsychological and Educational Outcomes in Shwachman–Diamond Syndrome—A Report From the North American Shwachman–Diamond Syndrome Registry

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Shwachman–Diamond syndrome (SDS) is a rare autosomal recessive ribosomopathy characterized by bone marrow failure and multisystem involvement, with emerging evidence of associated neurocognitive impairment. Methods We conducted a retrospective study of 240 individuals with biallelic Shwachman–Bodian–Diamond syndrome (SBDS) mutations
Jane Koo, Melissa Gerstle, Leah Cheng, Richard Cooper, Katherine Coyne, Claire Dusa, Naomi E. Joffe, Diana Schwarz, Sarah Steltz, Akiko Shimamura, Kasiani C. Myers, Thea Quinton   +11 more
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Patient preferences for long-acting HIV treatment: a preference heterogeneity assessment

BMC Infectious Diseases
Background Long-acting antiretroviral therapy (LA-ART) is an emerging alternative to daily oral ART pills that may improve HIV treatment adherence. We studied preference heterogeneity for LA-ART among people with HIV (PWH) in western Washington State and
Enrique M. Saldarriaga, Brett Hauber, Douglas Barthold, Aaron T. Brah, Jacinda Tran, Vincent C. Marconi, Jane M. Simoni, Susan M. Graham   +7 more
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Des ambitions raisonnables et raisonnées. Accéder à l’enseignement supérieur par les IUT et les STS

Cahiers de la Recherche sur l'Education et les Savoirs, 2018
A large number of students enter STS or IUT after the baccalaureate by default, either because they have given up their candidacy in another form of education they prefer because of their low school level, or they were not admitted.
Sophie Orange
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The Short-Term Impact of Crime on School Enrollment and School Choice: Evidence from El Salvador

Economía, 2020
This paper employs variations in crime rates, attributed to an unprecedented countrywide truce between gangs in El Salvador in 2012, to evaluate the short-term impact of homicides and extortions on the education choices of Salvadoran households. Results
Juan Nelson Martínez Dahbura
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Children's daily travel to school in Johannesburg-Soweto, South Africa: geography and school choice in the Birth to Twenty cohort study [PDF]

, 2013
This paper has two aims: to explore approaches to the measurement of children’s daily travel to school in a context of limited geospatial data availability, and to provide data regarding school choice and distance travelled to school in Soweto ...
Julia de Kadt, Norris, Shane, Seraphim Alvanides, de Kadt, Julia, Fleisch, Brahm, Shane A. Norris, Linda Richter, Alvanides, Seraphim, Richter, Linda, Norris, Shane A., Brahm Fleisch   +10 more
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A Situational Assessment of the Diagnostic Landscape and Organizational Readiness to Implement Next‐Generation Sequencing at Two Childhood Cancer Treatment Centers in Ghana

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Next‐generation sequencing (NGS) has emerged as a promising approach to improve diagnostic accuracy, but its feasibility in low‐ and middle‐income countries remains unknown. This study characterized the diagnostic landscape and assessed organizational readiness for NGS implementation at two childhood cancer treatment centers in Accra ...
Melissa Carvalho, Emmanuella Amoako, Nihad Salifu, Lily Gloria Tagoe, Yaw Bediako, Michelle Hermiston, Catherine Segbefia   +6 more
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Factors Influencing School Choice in a School District in Delaware

, 2012
The purpose of this descriptive study is to examine the factors that influenced parents in a school district in Delaware when they selected a high school for their child.
Kennedy, John Joseph.
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