EFFECT ON STUDENTS PREPARING ONLINE OF THE CHANGE IN REQUIREMENTS TO OBTAIN THEIR HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA BY A SINGLE NATIONAL EXAM

Author(s):  
Maria Morfin Otero ◽  
Claudia Adriana González Quintanilla ◽  
Verónica Peña Guzmán
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (01) ◽  
pp. e51-e56
Author(s):  
Lauren Hennein ◽  
Kimberly A. Spaulding ◽  
Veronika Karlegan ◽  
Ogonna N. Nnamani Silva ◽  
Alejandra G. de Alba Campomanes

Abstract Objective Eye health among the homeless community is important, as poor vision makes this population vulnerable and adds significantly to the social and health burden. There is limited knowledge on patient follow-up rates for their eye conditions and barriers to accessing care in this population. The purpose of this retrospective chart review study is to examine follow-up rates and barriers to care for patients referred from a free, medical-student run ophthalmology clinic at a homeless shelter. Methods All patients evaluated at a free ophthalmology clinic from September 2017 to September 2018 were included; no patients were excluded. If indicated, patients were referred for advanced ophthalmologic care at a local county hospital and free eyeglasses at a nonprofit organization. Primary outcomes were follow-up rates at the county hospital and nonprofit organization. Secondary outcomes included prespecified baseline variables hypothesized to be associated with follow-up rates. These categorical variables were compared with Chi-square testing to determine their association with follow-up rates. The hypothesis being tested was formulated before data collection. Results Of the 68 patients, 84% were males with a mean age of 50 years. Overall, 40 patients were referred for free eyeglasses and 17 to the county hospital. Of those referred, 14 patients presented for free eyeglasses and 7 presented to the county hospital. About 79% of patients with a pre-established primary care provider presented to their appointment compared with 20% of those without one (p = 0.03). The 44% of patients with a high school diploma presented while all patients without a high school diploma failed to present (p = 0.04). Vision-threatening conditions identified at the shelter clinic did not affect follow-up rates (p = 0.79). Conclusion Less than half of referred patients in our study presented to their appointments. Barriers to presentation included no primary care provider and lower educational status, with no improvement in follow-up rates among those referred for vision-threatening conditions. Interventions such as health coaching with particular attention to educating patients on the effects of vision-threatening conditions may be warranted, particularly for those not looped into the health care system and those of lower educational attainment.


1978 ◽  
Vol 62 (420) ◽  
pp. 51-56
Author(s):  
H.B. Pinkney ◽  
Thomas H. Fisher

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-9
Author(s):  
Chandra Ramadhan Atmaja Perdana ◽  
Hanung Adi Nugroho ◽  
Igi Ardiyanto

File scanned documents are commonly used in this digital era. Text and image extraction of scanned documents play an important role in acquiring information. A document may contain both texts and images. A combination of text-image classification has been previously investigated. The dataset used for those research works the text were digitally provided. In this research, we used a dataset of high school diploma certificate, which the text must be acquired using optical character recognition (OCR) method. There were two categories for this high school diploma certificate, each category has three classes. We used convolutional neural network for both text and image classifications. We then combined those two models by using adaptive fusion model and weight fusion model to find the best fusion model. We come into conclusion that the performance of weight fusion model which is 0.927 is better than that of adaptive fusion model with 0.892.


2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (12) ◽  
pp. 2203-2206
Author(s):  
Nicola Girtler ◽  
Matteo Grazzini ◽  
Federico Massa ◽  
Riccardo Meli ◽  
Dario Arnaldi

2020 ◽  
pp. 99-112
Author(s):  
Melvin Delgado

The importance of education in a democracy can be measured from multiple perspectives, with those failing representing an opportunity lost with immediate and long-term ramifications. In global and technologically driven economies, education has ascended in significance to a point where a high school diploma is no longer a ticket to the middle class. Public education is a linchpin in the ultimate career success of students, with much expected of a system occupying such a prominent and extended period in their lives, daily and during key developmental phases. This chapter covers the usual urban public education and communities of color terrain. However, two pipelines will draw particular attention—school-to-prison and school-to-military—with an extension to include prison, too, highlighting state-sanctioned violence.


2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (7) ◽  
pp. 1214-1234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara J. McLaughlin

Objective: The objective of this study is to examine the correlates of healthy aging in the context of educational disadvantage and the extent to which identified correlates are shared with the wider, more educationally advantaged population. Method: Data are from the 2012 Health and Retirement Study. The analytic sample included 17,484 self-respondents ≥50 years of age. Educational disadvantage was defined as having less than a high school diploma. Using logistic regression, healthy aging was regressed on demographic, early-life, and health-related factors by educational status. Results: Among educationally disadvantaged adults, demographic characteristics (e.g., age), health practices (e.g., physical activity), and the presence of health conditions were independently correlated with healthy aging. With few exceptions, correlates of healthy aging were similar among educationally advantaged and disadvantaged adults. Discussion: Ordinary factors are associated with healthy aging among adults without a high school diploma, suggesting that healthy aging is possible for larger numbers of adults aging in the context of educational disadvantage.


1978 ◽  
Vol 71 (9) ◽  
pp. 767-768
Author(s):  
Fredric Paul

Beginning with the graduating class of June 1979. students in New York State will need to pass basic comptetency examinations in mathematics and reading to be eligible for a high school diploma.


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