All America's Diversity of Children Resources (cont'd)
- 2010 Child Well-Being Index (CWI)
The 2010 annual release of the the Foundation for Child Development Child Well-Being Index (CWI) is the first report to offer comprehensive data on the impact of the Great Recession on American children’s quality-of-life.
June 15, 2010 • Read MorePre-Kindergartners Left Behind: Expulsion Rates in State Pre-kindergarten ProgramsPre-K students are expelled at a rate more than three times that of children in grades K-12, according to a primary study by Yale Child Study Center researcher Walter S. Gilliam.
June 15, 2010 • Read MoreYoung Hispanic Children’s Demographic ProfileThe National Task Force on Early Childhood Education of Hispanics describes the characteristics of young Hispanic children and their families.
June 15, 2010 • Read MoreCulture and Practice of Mexican Primary Schooling: Implications for Improving Policy and Practice in the U.S.Jensen B.T. (2005, October). Culture and Practice of Mexican Primary Schooling: Implications for Improving Policy and Practice in the U.S. Current Issues in Education [On-line], 8(25). Children of Mexican immigrant families represent one of the fastest growing student populations in the United States.
June 15, 2010 • Read MoreMeasuring Social Disparities: A Modified Approach to the Index of Child Well-Being (CWI) for Race-Ethnic, Immigrant-Generation, and Socioeconomic Groups with New Results for WhitesThe Foundation for Child Development’s Child Well-Being Index (CWI) provides a national composite measure for monitoring change in the quality of life of America’s children by indicating the average amount of change that children experience between a baseline year and a subsequent year. the method also has been implemented for whites, blacks, and Hispanics to assess trends for each group individually.
June 14, 2010 • Read MoreDeveloping State Indices of Child Well-BeingThe regular production and release of the national Child Well-Being Index (CWI) by Ken Land and his colleagues has been a significant development for the field of child indicators.
June 14, 2010 • Read MoreAre All Indicators Equal?: Alternatives to An Equal Weighting Strategy in the Construction of A Composite Index of Child Well-BeingThe purpose of this paper is to draw attention to problems that may arise with regard to the validity and acceptance of the CWI because of the use of the equal-weighting procedure.
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