Faced with stagnating student achievement, the 10,500-student Adams 50 district in Westminster, Colo., launched an improvement initiative in 2008 that eliminated old notions of grade-level progression ...

An employee is hired based on his or her qualifications, which are determined by a job description and will be renewed based on a competency framework. The employee is subject to a set of rules and ...

Human resources management in small businesses can be highly structured as in large organizations, or less structured to permit flexibility in workforce planning, staffing and HR control over the ...

How do you stay relevant? That's the question many teachers ask themselves about their profession. They all want to be able to impart the skills required for each grade in the school career.

Arlington, VA, Nov. 01, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ASCD, the nation's leading association for K–12 educator professional development, announced the publication of The Mastery Learning Handbook: A ...

Healthcare for older adults requires a knowledgeable professional workforce. Yet less than one percent of health professionals are certified in geriatrics. This paper describes initiatives to assure ...

In the UK, it is becoming increasingly difficult to recruit and retain qualified occupational health (OH) nurses. Between 1999 and 2001, it was estimated that only 250 nurses would qualify with a ...

Large increases in the number of immigrants to this country, many of whom will come to Alberta either as permanent residents or temporary workers and international students, have exacerbated pressures ...

The value of a liberal arts education rests less in the questions that our students learn to answer, and more in the questions that our students learn to ask. I am skeptical of any claim that ...

Senecal et al. 1 raise an important issue in their recent paper. The amount and complexity of information produced by next generation sequencing (NGS) poses difficult ethical issues, particularly when ...