A great irony is emerging from the prolonged "education wars" between teachers unions and supporters of market-based reforms that rely heavily on motivating school personnel by threatening them: The low-income districts and schools that have demonstrated the greatest improvement in student outcomes are generally characterized by deep collaboration between administrators and teachers.
In the youngest cohorts, prolonged education may directly prevent the early uptake of smoking via better knowledge about potential health hazards [ 29], or indirectly via personality traits like higher self-esteem and internal locus of control [ 30, 31].
Jobs that involve people skills but don't require prolonged educations should rise in status.
Prolonging girls' education could therefore save an estimated 500,000 infant lives between now and the 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goal on child mortality.
It seems as if (you know; you've read the articles, too) that we--young society--are delaying becoming adults, and prolonging our education is one of the more effective methods.
Family planning: generates wealth and reduces hunger (MDG 1); prolongs education (MDG 2); empowers women and girls (MDG 3); saves infants (MDG 4); improves maternal health (MDG 5); prevents pediatric HIV (MDG 6); reduces pressure on the environment (MDG 7); and promotes global partnerships (MDG 8).
There are strong evidences to suggest environmental factors play a crucial role in the development of school age onset myopia, which include time spent outdoors, prolonged intense education, urbanization, near work, prenatal factors, and socioeconomic status.
As he explained in a recent e-mail message, a "likely cause" of the widespread delay in the onset of maturity today was "more prolonged higher education for ever more people, leading to an increase in the 'unfinished' personalities that are adaptive to learning".
A possible explanation for this finding is that after winning an unanticipated windfall young people may decide to prolong their education and finance it with the money they have won.
Schooling protected against sexual risks in several ways, highlighting the potential of interventions to prolong formal education.
Increasing the effectiveness of skills training without prolonging costly training time, can therefore be very valuable for medical education.
