All America's Diversity of Children Resources (cont'd)
- The Well-Being of America’s Children: Developing and Improving the Child and Youth Well-Being Index
This Foundation for Child Development funded volume: Improves the understanding of how the well-being of American’s children can be measured and improved The first book of its kind to address the issue of developing and Improving the Child and Youth Well-Being Index Includes a systematic description and presentation of a unified approach to these topics The volume attests to the evolution of the Child Well-Being Index and asks what it promises for understanding the progress — or lack of progress — in enhancing the life prospects of all American children.
July 30, 2012 • Read MoreRelationships and Building a Community Focus: City of BremertonThis presentation was given by Linda Sullivan-Dudzic on March 13, 2012 as part of the U.S Department of Education webinar on PreK-3rd as a strategy to improve student achievement.
April 10, 2012 • Read MoreAnalyzing State Differences in Child Well-BeingThis report uses a broad quality-of-life measure based on 25 indicators of children’s well-being to examine differences in the welfare of children across the United States.
January 17, 2012 • Read MoreInvesting in Public Programs Matters: How State Policies Impact Children’s LivesInvesting in Public Programs Matters: How State Policies Impact Children’s Lives, focuses on the results of the 2012 STATE Child Well-Being Index (CWI) — a comprehensive state-level index of child well-being modeled after the Foundation for Child Development’s NATIONAL CWI. The STATE CWI draws from the most comprehensive set of data used to form a state index of child well-being.
January 17, 2012 • Read More2012 STATE Child Well-Being Index (CWI)January 11, 2012 • Read MoreEarly School Skills and Behaviors: Precursors to Young Adult Crime?We investigate primary school precursors to criminal involvement in early adulthood.
December 22, 2011 • Read MoreEarly School Adjustment and High School DropoutAlthough school attainment is a cumulative process combining mastery of both academic and behavioral skills, most studies have offered only a piecemeal view of the associations between early childhood capacities and subsequent schooling outcomes.
December 22, 2011 • Read More2011 Child Well-Being Index (CWI)The 2011 annual release of the CWI reports that children are bearing the brunt of America’s widening income gap and that cuts to education, food stamps, and health insurance programs would drastically worsen the situation.
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