Sentences with phrase «in youth outcomes»

It describes significant decreases in the rates of restrictive practices used and improvements in youth outcomes during that time.

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New Evidence on How Skills Influence Human Capital Acquisition and Early Labor Market Return to Human Capital between Canada and the United States Steven F. Lehrer, Queen's University and NBER Michael Kottelenberg, Huron University College Lehrer and Kottelenberg analyze the roles played by cognitive and non-cognitive skills in educational attainment and early labor market outcomes using the Youth in Transition Survey from Canada and earlier results from a study of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth in the United States.

Topics at the summit will include injury prevention strategies in youth sports, overuse injuries, how to prevent bullying and gender influences on sport - related concussions and outcomes.

The anger and indignation being felt across the world at terrible, fraudulent outcome of 2012 elections in Ghana came alive when hundreds of Ghanaians including members of the Coalition of Ghanaians against Electoral Fraud (COGEF), the Movement for Genuine Democracy (MGD), The Progressive Youth for Change and Transparency (PYCT) and The Stop tribalism in Ghana group demonstrated outside the Ghana High Commission offices in Highgate, North London.

Downstream, the likely outcome from depicting that bleak picture is diminishing job prospects for young people in those areas — doubtless followed by escalating demands for more and more government grants to promote business development in Labour heartlands to reduce youth unemployment.

The Erie County Department of Social Services will convene a Permanency Summit on Tuesday, April 25 2017 in Buffalo to bring together local experts to brainstorm and plan ways to improve outcomes for youth in foster care.

He said: «Election Management Bodies in our sub-regions and beyond have deployed technology in one way or another to improve on the processes, administration and outcome of elections, ranging from training and capacity - building for electoral officials, promotion of inclusivity in the electoral process (youths, women, PWDs, IDPs and out - of - country / diaspora voters), the biometric registration of voters, delineation of electoral constituencies, geo - referencing of existing as well as the creation of new polling units, establishment of robust electronic databases, accreditation of voters during elections, actual voting and the speedy and more accurate collation / transmission of results.

That outcome was stunning given the speaker's long identification with the LGBT community — as the 1991 campaign manager and later chief of staff to Tom Duane, the Council's first out gay member; as head of the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project; as a demonstrator arrested year after year in protests against the exclusion of openly gay participants in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day Parade; and as a Council member who pursued a range of initiatives in support of the community, including a school anti-bullying law, a requirement that the city only do businesses with contractors with anti-discrimination policies in place, and funding for LGBT homeless youth services, senior services, and the capital needs of the LGBT Community Center.

By offering a continuum of educational and social services, mental health care and counseling in one location, the Center for Safe and Healthy Youth aims to improve outcomes for yYouth aims to improve outcomes for youthyouth.

The researchers urge the education community to consider the role of afterschool classrooms and instructors in promoting supportive interactions and advancing academic outcomes for at - risk youth during this important transition to adolescence.

In their study, Lundgren and Adams sought understanding of the processes by which youth are socialized into gender norms and how these gender norms are associated with violence and other negative health outcomes.

Given the potential of afterschool programs to support youth in urban, low - income communities, the researchers examined the role that the afterschool classroom environment plays in terms of academic outcomes for youth with and without social and behavioral difficulties.

In both the fall and spring, the researchers collected three types of academic outcome measures from youth and staff, including reading skills, youth perceptions of their academic abilities, and academic engagement.

The UChicago team's NBER study concludes, «The impact of the pilot intervention reported in this paper are large enough to raise the question of whether the field has given up prematurely on the possibility of improving academic outcomes for disadvantaged youth.»

, our evaluation partner in measuring social - emotional learning and youth development outcomes in our students.

October 6th - 8th (Saturday — Monday) FOUNDATIONS: $ 650 An introduction to Bent On Learning's history, curriculum, and impact on youth development outcomes, discussions on the role of yoga teachers in schools, and instruction on how kids learn and how to set them up for success.

The National Center of Education and the Economy, through its Center on International Education Benchmarking, is working to build a community of researchers interested in investigating how a small set of countries and states have managed to build and sustain educational systems that manage routinely to produce higher and more equitable outcomes for children and youth.

How do the social contexts of family, neighborhood, and school in the early years relate to life outcomes for urban youth?

By All Means consortium cities will implement a variety of best practices for working across municipal agencies and community based organizations in order to deliver outcomes that are measurably better at serving all children and youth.

Dozens of studies of afterschool programs repeatedly underscore the powerful impact of supporting a range of positive learning outcomes, including academic achievement, by affording children and youth opportunities to practice new skills through hands - on, experiential learning in project - based after school programs.

The verdict: a decade of research and evaluation studies confirms that children and youth who participate in afterschool programs can reap a host of positive benefits in a number of interrelated outcome areas — academic, social - emotional, prevention, and health and wellness.

According to a recent implementation study with the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities at Stanford University, Aim High is helping students reach positive outcomes, and the teaching and instructional practices result in «increased self - efficacy, or the belief in one's ability to succeed» for its students.

Since 2000, our mission has focused more sharply on improving educational outcomes for disadvantaged youth, particularly those who attend schools in urban communities.

Follow - up outcomes (6 months to 18 years after students participated in SEL programs) demonstrate SEL's enhancement of positive youth development, including positive increases in SEL skills, attitudes, positive social behavior, and academic performance while finding decreases in conduct problems, emotional distress, and drug use.

Increasingly, schools are prioritising wellbeing as a response to the prevalence of mental illness in youth and the link between wellbeing and positive learning outcomes.

Gonzales is the author of the 2015 book Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America, which explores why highly educated undocumented youth share similar work and life outcomes with less educated peers, and the failures of our country's current system to provide for their integration and success.

To improve the educational outcomes of America's 6.5 million children and youth with disabilities, the U.S. Department of Education today announced a major shift in the way it oversees the effectiveness of states» special education programs.

Interested in the academic outcomes and school experiences of bilingual and bicultural youth, particularly their literacy development.

We assessed a longitudinal model of cultural predictors and educational outcomes of social justice orientation in a national sample of Latina / o youths.

This work is grounded in a coherent rationale and designates a series of indicators that demonstrate system - level, setting - level and individual - level practices to promote smooth transitions to early grades and growth across youth development outcomes for all children.

AfterZone: Outcomes for youth participating in Providence's after - school system.

In launching an unprecedented effort to improve school achievement and other youth outcomes by «scaling up» evidence - based programs, the Obama administration has given education a golden opportunity on the research front.

This webinar discussed a new brief by the Council of State Governments Justice Center and American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) entitled Leveraging the Every Student Succeeds Act to Improve Outcomes for Youth in Juvenile Justice Facilities.

NBFA employees thrive in a collaborative environment of thoughtful, self - reflective professionals on a mission to change the life outcomes of Bridgeport youth by helping to close the nefarious achievement gap.

Developing social and emotional skills in youth has shown to be effective at improving academic outcomes for all students — from the valedictorian to the student most at - risk of dropping out.

The authors conceptualize rigorous learning as the outcome of an environment that promotes positive youth development, not changes in course offerings or testing requirements.

Nina Salomon is a Project Manager in the Corrections and Reentry division at the CSG Justice Center, where she oversees the Improving Outcomes for Youth initiative, supporting states develop, adopt, and implement legislative reforms to improve outcomes for youth in the juvenile justiceOutcomes for Youth initiative, supporting states develop, adopt, and implement legislative reforms to improve outcomes for youth in the juvenile justice syYouth initiative, supporting states develop, adopt, and implement legislative reforms to improve outcomes for youth in the juvenile justiceoutcomes for youth in the juvenile justice syyouth in the juvenile justice system.

Webinar Recording: Improving Education Quality in Juvenile Justice Facilities This webinar highlighted key focus areas of a new brief by the Council of State Government's Justice Center and AYPF entitled Leveraging the Every Student Succeeds Act to Improve Outcomes for Youth in Juvenile Justice Facilities.

Local educators, in partnership with other stakeholders, can then use an ongoing data based decision - making model utilizing secondary transition data related to graduation (Indicator 1), dropout (Indicator 2), transition compliance of the IEP (Indicator 13), and post-school outcomes (Indicator 14) to improve in - school transition programs for youth with disabilities.

Shift our education culture to one of blame (not good enough, not enough $, what's wrong within the bureaucracy and within school walls) to one of ownership, where EVERYONE (individuals and organizations) reflects on how they can contribute to better outcomes for youth and how we each can play a meaningful role in the development of children from pre-natal to adulthood.

The webinar also highlighted the Blueprint for Change: Education Success for Youth in the Juvenile Justice System, an interactive online tool that includes 10 comprehensive goals and corresponding benchmarks to improve educational outcomes for youth in the juvenile justice syYouth in the Juvenile Justice System, an interactive online tool that includes 10 comprehensive goals and corresponding benchmarks to improve educational outcomes for youth in the juvenile justice syyouth in the juvenile justice system.

Their aim is to enable schools and adult and youth services to get the most from their investment in technology, supporting overall school development and improve learning outcomes for all.

This webinar will highlight key focus areas of a new brief by the Council of State Government's Justice Center and AYPF entitledLeveraging the Every Student Succeeds Act to Improve Outcomes for Youth in Juvenile Justice Facilities.

Her current research examines the relationship between risk and protective factors, preventive interventions, and youth outcomes; the design and evaluation of tools to facilitate the use of protective factors in strength - based and evidence - informed practice; and the development of community - based infrastructures to promote and sustain the use of such tools in practice environments.

The Center assists SEAs to develop and implement rigorous and practical post-school outcome data systems to track the early adult experiences of youth who had IEPs while in high school.

What children and youth do when they are not in school matters when it comes to learning and life outcomes.

(Utah) Providing breakfast for students with long bus rides, offering quick grab - and - go meals, or even serving food after the bell rings can effectively increase participation in school breakfast programs — something that can boost outcomes for low - income youth, advocates say.

The consolidation of data from disparate systems and the sharing of data across agencies and organizations that serve MNPS students and families are key strategies that Hansen champions in her efforts to improve outcomes for Nashville's children and youth through a collective impact approach.

The Office of Special Education Programs» Results Driven Accountability Initiative represents a significant shift in state accountability from a focus on compliance and ensuring access to education and early intervention services to a focus on measurable and meaningful outcomes in learning and development for children and youth with disabilities.

Her research focuses on the role of schools and community - based organizations in shaping developmental outcomes for youth of color.