Author: United States. General Accounting Office
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Category : Community and school
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428970231
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Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Author: United States. General Accounting Office
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Category : Community and school
Languages : en
Pages : 23

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Initiatives.

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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 764

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Author: Franklin Schargel
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317925823
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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This book describes the fifteen strategies identified through research reviewed by The National Dropout Prevention Center and Network at Clemson University. Each chapter in this book was written by a nationally recognized authority in that field. Research has shown that these 15 strategies have been successfully implemented in all school levels from K - 12 in rural, suburban, and urban centers; as stand-alone programs or as part of systemic school improvement plans. Helping Students Graduate: A Strategic Approach to Dropout Prevention also covers No Child Left Behind and its effects on dropout rates; Dealing with Hispanic dropouts; Differences and similarities between rural and urban dropouts. These fifteen strategies have been adopted by the U.S. Department of Education. They are applicable to all students, including students with disabilities.

Author: Kyshun Andre Webster
Publisher: Universal-Publishers
ISBN: 1599428830
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 189

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Parents Left Behind is an in-depth analysis of the policy implementation process for Section 1118 of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) federal legislation. Section 1118 was designed to increase parental involvement in local schools. Four years after being signed into law, the question of how Section 1118 is understood and is being implemented by selected stakeholders, from the local, state, and federal levels were not answered in the available literature. This multi-level case study began the examination effort by describing how parental involvement programs were being implemented according to federal mandates in NCLB and how policy decisions to implement this law were made and interpreted by public actors at each governmental level to the street level context of the New Orleans Public School District. Findings from this study suggest that resources for implementation, were, at best, inadequate; communications and translations of the policy have been slow; and, parents and teachers have been left behind, not having been significantly involved in or informed about the policy. The study provides insights and recommendations for federal policymakers, State Education Authorities (SEA), and Local Education Authorities (LEA) to improve implementation and monitoring in future iterations of the law. Awards and recognition: Webster selected as 2010 Characters Unite award recipient

Author: United States Accounting Office (GAO)
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781984903655
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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GAO-01-66 At-Risk Youth: School-Community Collaborations Focus on Improving Student Outcomes

Author: Thomas Williams
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317920325
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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This book summarizes over 40 programs which enhance the success of students at risk. The emphases of these programs include individual students' learning skills, whole-school improvement, professional development, and parent and family improvement. Names and addresses of key people at each site are also included.

Author: Massachusetts. Task Force on At-Risk Students, Schools and Communities
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Category : Educational change
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Author: Lauren Nichol Gase
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Languages : en
Pages : 146

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This dissertation applied a social determinants of health perspective to examine the relationships between health, academic, and juvenile justice-related structures, interventions, and outcomes among at-risk youths in the United States. The first study, Relationships between Student, Staff, and Administrative Measures of School Climate and Student Health and Academic Outcomes, examined student, staff, and administrative measures of school climate to understand the extent to which they were related to each other and student outcomes. Multilevel regression analyses showed student, staff, and administrative measures of school climate to be weakly correlated. Strong associations were found between student outcomes and student-reports of engagement and safety, while staff-reports and administrative measures of school climate showed limited associations with students' outcomes. The second study, Understanding Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Arrest: The Role of Individual, Home, School, and Community Characteristics, identified characteristics of young adults who were more likely to become involved in justice-based punitive systems. Multilevel regression analyses showed significantly higher likelihood of having ever been arrested among Blacks, when compared to Whites, even after controlling for a range of delinquent behaviors. Notably, racial/ethnic disparities in arrest were no longer present after accounting for racial composition of the neighborhood. The third study, The Impact of Two Los Angeles County Teen Courts on Youth Recidivism: Comparing Two Informal Probation Programs, assessed a juvenile justice system diversion program being implemented in Los Angeles County. Logistic and survival models showed Teen Court participants to have lower rates of recidivism than comparison group participants, after controlling for potential confounders. This dissertation provides a research-grounded approach for how public health might apply its population health frame to support a more holistic vision for health and wellness within the education and juvenile justice systems. Moving forward, research and practice efforts to address the social determinants of health will require an expanded definition of what it means for youths to be "healthy," greater willingness among researchers and practitioners to focus on multi-component/multi-system interventions, more meaningful communications and alignment between systems, and a more explicit focus on identifying factors that can facilitate successful policy and program implementation.