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Academic Achievement and Barriers to Learning

Preparing All Youth for Academic and Career Readiness: Implications for High School Policy and practice

Publisher: 
National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth

This paper identifies the challenges in practice and policy for successful post-school outcomes and it offers recommendations on how states, local school districts, and individual high schools can

Working Together to Help Youth Thrive in Schools and Communities

Publisher: 
US Department of Health and Human Services

This report looked at the academic, behavioral, and emotional performance of youth involved in systems of care

Reducing Behavior Problems in the Elementary School Classroom

Publisher: 
What Works Clearinghouse

The goal of this practice guide is to formulate specific and coherent evidence-based recommendations for use by educators to address the challenge of reducing behavior problems in elementary school classrooms. The guide provides practical, clear information on critical behavior-related topics and is based on the best available evidence, as judged by the panel.

Moving Toward a Comprehensive System of Learning Supports: The Next Evolutionary Stage in School Improvement Policy and Practice

Publisher: 
Center for Mental Health in Schools

This policy brief indicates that school improvement policies, planning, and practices have not been effective in dealing with factors leading to and maintaining students

A Collective Responsibility, A Collective Work: Supporting the Path to Positive Life Outcomes for Youth in Economically Distressed Communities

Publisher: 
Center for Law and Social Policy

This report highlights the systemic risks that youth in distressed communities face, linking high child poverty rates and low high school graduation rates to high rates of violent crime, teen pregn

Using Technology to Address Barriers to Learning

Publisher: 
Center for Mental Health in Schools at UCLA

This brief looks at the benefits of using technology for a range of areas such as systems to manage information, to aid intervention activities, and in on-site and distance learning.

Screening and Assessing Immigrant and Refugee Youth in School-Based Mental Health Programs

Publisher: 
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

This paper provides an overview of screening, identification, and assessment tools and processes that can be used by practitioners and researchers who care for immigrant and refugee youth. We focus particularly on those tools useful in school-based settings.

Transforming School Improvement to Develop a Comprehensive System of Learning Supports: What District Superintendents Say They Need to Move Forward

Publisher: 
Center for Mental Health in Schools

This report examines school district superintendents' awareness, interest, and suggestions related to the need to expand the focus of school improvement planning and implementation to include deve

Improving the Distribution of Teachers in Low-Performing High Schools

Publisher: 
Alliance for Excellent Education

This policy brief looks at teacher quality as a factor impacting student achievement and improving the disparity of quality teachers in lower-performing, poorer high schools.

Future of Children: Children and Electronic Media

Publisher: 
The Woodrow Wilson School Of Public And International Affairs

This journal features nine articles on the most common forms of electronic media in use today and their influence on the well-being of children and adolescents.