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School Environment and Education

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.

Public School Graduates and Dropouts from the Common Core of Data: School Year 2006

Publisher: 
U.S. Department of Education

This report presents the number of high school graduates, the Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate, and dropout data for grades 9 through 12 for public schools in school year 2006

Present, Engaged, and Accounted For: The Critical Importance of Addressing Chronic Absence in the Early Grades

Publisher: 
National Center for Children in Poverty

This report examines how schools and communities working together can significantly reduce chronic early absence by taking comprehensive approaches for ensuring schools and families understand atte

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.

Parent and Family Involvement in Education, 2006

Publisher: 
U.S. Department of Education

This report presents initial findings on parents

Keeping Pregnant and Parenting Students From Dropping Out: A Guide for Policymakers and Schools

Publisher: 
Healthy Teen Network, National Women's Law Center

This guide for policymakers and schools explains how Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 protects pregnant and parenting students' rights to an equitable education.

Building Brighter Futures in Indian Country: What

Publisher: 
U.S. Department of Justice

This report shows the results of a Tribal Youth Program Youth Focus Group that was held June 2-3, 2007 in Shelton, Washington.

Preventing School Violence: Plans Make it Possible

Publisher: 
The Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools (OSDFS)

This issue highlights the final report and findings of the Safe School Initiative

Current-Generation Youth Programs: What Works, What Doesn't, and at What Cost?

Publisher: 
RAND Corporation

This paper reviews the costs, benefits, and costs and benefits relative to one another for one alternative type of investment: youth programs that are offered during the time that students are not

Getting it Right: Strategies for After-School Success

Publisher: 
Public/Private Ventures

This report has synthesized the last 10 years of findings from Public/Private Ventures