Schools often provide medication management to children at school, yet, most U.S. schools lack a full-time, licensed nurse. Schools rely heavily on unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) to perform such tasks. This systematic review examined medication management among K-12 school nurses. Keyword searches in three databases were performed. We…

This article investigates the biopolitical dimensions that have grown out of the union between biocapitalism and current science education reform in the US. Drawing on science and technology study theorists, I utilize the analytics of promissory valuation and salvationary discourses to understand how scientific literacy in the neo-Sputnik era has…

Most school districts today are looking for ways to save money without decreasing services to its staff. Retired pharmacist Tim Sylvester, a lifelong resident of Alpena Public Schools in Alpena, Michigan, presented the district with a pharmaceuticals plan that would save the district money without raising employee co-pays for prescriptions. The…

For the forty-first time, the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented at the annual AECT Convention in Kansas City, Missouri. The Proceedings of AECT's Convention are published in two volumes. Volume 1 contains twenty-seven…

An increasing number of students are taking medications while they are in school or are under the influence of medication during school hours. In a novel effort, clinical pharmacists and mental health therapists worked together to provide "mini-in-service" educational programs on psychological disorders and medications used to treat…

Many children who take medications require them during the school day. This policy statement is designed to guide prescribing physicians as well as school administrators and health staff on the administration of medications to children at school. The statement addresses over-the-counter products, herbal medications, experimental drugs that are…

The Educational Directory, 1919-20 is divided into seven distinct parts. Part 3, Higher Education: Training of Teachers, covers the following topic areas: (1) Presidents of universities and colleges; (2) Presidents of Junior colleges; (3) Deans or directors of colleges or schools of engineering; (4) Heads of departments of education; (5)…

With the publication of "Education in Honduras," the Office of Education is continuing the series of basic studies on education in the American republics which was initiated in 1943. The Office of Education is indebted to Professor M. Weldon Thompson of Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, Virginia, for the original study which led to the…

This 1929 educational directory published by the Bureau of Education covers the following categories: (1) United States Bureau of Education; (2) Principal State school officers; (3) County and other local superintendents of schools; (4) Superintendents of public schools in cities and towns; (5) Public-school business managers; (6) Presidents of…

This 1928 educational directory published by the Bureau of Education covers the following categories: (1) United States Bureau of Education; (2) Principal State school officers; (3) County and other local superintendents of schools; (4) Superintendents of public schools in cities and towns; (5) Public-school business managers; (6) Presidents of…

This 1922 educational directory published by the Bureau of Education covers the following categories: (1) United States Bureau of Education; (2) Principal State school officers; (3) County and other local superintendents of schools; (4) Superintendents of public schools in cities and towns; (5) Presidents of universities and colleges; (6)…

This 1925 educational directory published by the Bureau of Education covers the following categories: (1) United States Bureau of Education; (2) Principal State school officers; (3) County and other local superintendents of schools; (4) Superintendents of public schools in cities and towns; (5) Public-school business managers; (6) Presidents of…

This 1927 educational directory published by the Bureau of Education covers the following categories: (1) United States Bureau of Education; (2) Principal State school officers; (3) County and other local superintendents of schools; (4) Superintendents of public schools in cities and towns; (5) Public-school business managers; (6) Presidents of…

"Education in Mexico," one of the series of basic studies on education in the American Republics undertaken by the Office of Education, has been prepared with the interests of the following groups in mind: (1) Persons working in the field of Inter-American educational relations; (2) Those specializing in Latin American area and language…

The earnestness, even eagerness, with which the nations newly created or recreated at the close of the World War, went to work to build efficient school systems was and is one of the strongest expressions in modern times of fine faith in education. From time to time the Office of Education has reported on these new school systems. Accounts have…