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Education Partnerships (education + partnership)

Distribution by Scientific Domains
Medical Sciences75%

Selected Abstracts

The Impact of Public School Attributes on Home Sale Prices in California

GROWTH AND CHANGE, Issue 3 2000
David E. Clark
The quality of public schools is often cited as an important attribute which distinguishes a community. Indeed, a recent public opinion poll conducted by the California Public Education Partnership indicates that residents rank improvements in public education higher than such high profile issues as environmental quality and crime reduction. In order to explore the role of educational quality in determining residential property values, a hedonic housing price model is used on a large sample of homes which sold within Fresno County in California over the period 1990-1994. After controlling for a wide range of housing characteristics and neighborhood features, the findings indicate that the school district does significantly influence the real sale price. Then the relative importance of inputs into the production of educational services is investigated as compared to output measures of productivity. These findings suggest that both input and output measures are important. However, elasticity estimates of input measures tend to be higher than those of output measures, with the average class size by far the strongest influence. There is some evidence to suggest that the benefits of additional teachers likely outweigh the costs. Finally, the findings suggest that attributes of schools are more highly valued by local residents than either crime or environmental quality measures within the community. [source]

Servier: establishing research and education partnerships

FUTURE PRESCRIBER, Issue 3 2008
Article first published online: 19 JAN 200
This series of company profiles looks at some of the major players in the UK pharmaceutical industry, their current areas of expertise and forthcoming products and initiatives that will have an impact on therapeutics and prescribing in the near future. In this article we provide an overview of Servier Laboratories and its top products, as well as Servier's ongoing development of research and education partnerships. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

AHEC in West Virginia: A Case Study

THE JOURNAL OF RURAL HEALTH, Issue 1 2003
Lamont D. Nottingham MPH
The outcome is an evolving universitycommunity partnership designed to meet changing workforce and community health needs in the heart of rural Appalachia. West Virginia University's (WVU's) application of the original Carnegie Commission AHEC recommendations (1970) resulted in the Charleston AHEC, now part of the Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center of WVU. AHEC today trains more than 135 residents and interns, and one-third of the third-year and fourth-year WVU medical students. Charleston offers clinical and continuing education for nurses, dentists, pharmacists, and allied health professionals. A health sciences library, distance learning, and a neiwork of primary care clinics help define Charleston's unique AHEC role. This AHEC hub continues to meet the classic Carnegie goals of recruiting and retaining health professionals, and providing access to care in the original service area and statewide. Based on the Charleston experience, four new federally funded AHECs are being developed to link rural primary care residencies with the state-funded West Virginia rural health education partnerships. These rural consortia AHECs are applying the concept of community competency, a performance-based methodology, to integrate learning while achieving the goals of Healthy People 2010. [source]