In 2016, Maryland's educational freedom ranking rose to 46th place—above New York, Hawaii, California, and New Jersey—from 50th in the Cato Institute's Freedom in the 50 States index. The improvement was due to the state's adoption of the Broadening Options and Opportunities for Students...

Scholars have long recognized the difficulties of communicating risk to the public. The rise of mobile gaming presents unprecedented opportunities for risk communicators to reach millions of potential users in engaging and potentially effective ways. Gamifying risk communication may help users...

In order to analyze how law schools can best teach legal problem solving, this Article draws upon the volumes of research in cognitive and educational psychology on problem solving and upon the hundreds of student evaluations since 2002 of Regent University School of Law's Summer Academic...

Learning styles of students affect their academic outcomes. Students studying in different schools adopt different learning styles. In this research work done with the aim of studying the significance of difference in learning styles of higher secondary level students studying in different...

Foreignlanguage policy in Kosova is a complex task, which requires involvment of different stakeholders: parents, teachers multidimensional skills, to be involved in the teaching of foreignlanguages, students motivation and school infrastructure. Teachers are responsible for teaching methodology...

The identification of factors affecting birth weight is a key issue in human development due to its established associations with long-term health, educational and labour-market outcomes. This paper exploits intergenerational information on three generations (grandparents-parents-children) to...

The main goal of this study is to verify if a greater number of students within a University department is an influential factor on the quality of instructors’ teaching and evaluating. One of the key analytic theses of this study, is to prove whether there is difference between the level of...

It is estimated that in the XXI century, coronary diseases will surpass contagious diseases, and will be the main cause for morbidity and specific mortality and are large consumers of health services, increasing the economic cost of their treatment. Cardiovascular diseases represent a major...

Occupational accidents are one of the most crucial problems in working life. A good many people lose their lives because of these accidents around the world. Thousands of people from different sectors die because of the accidents, which are one of the leading problems in Turkey. In this context,...