Sentences with phrase «other outcomes for children»

Our various analyses suggest that Achievement for All has been extremely successful in improving academic and other outcomes for children with special educational needs.

Not exact matches

Consider, for example, the other seven MDG objectives, such as a proposed 75 % improvement in maternal health outcomes, to a 66 % decline in mortality rates for children under the age of five.

Thus many Catholics complain about the dearth of priests, all the while ignoring their own responsibility for that outcome — the fact that few have children in numbers large enough to send one son to the priesthood while the others marry and carry on the family name.

In order for us to address these problems (and others not listed) we must move the culture in a direction that sees the procreation of children as a good thing and as an expected outcome of the act — even if it does not occur as a result of each and every act.

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It's important that family members work together to create the best possible outcomes for the special needs child without ignoring the needs of other family members.

It's not exactly clear what's behind the trend of more parents moving away from corporal punishment — it could be a result of doctors and other child health and welfare experts spreading the word about extensive and well - researched evidence showing a clear link between corporal punishment and negative outcomes for kids, or it could be that this form of punishing kids is less socially acceptable than it used to be, or a combination of both factors.

Helping adolescent males to delay fatherhood may also be important from a child health perspective: research that controlled for maternal age and other key factors found teenage fatherhood associated with an increased risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes, including preterm birth, low birth weight and neonatal death (Chen et al, 2007).

• For these and other reasons, although children in mother - stepfather families tend to experience better financial support than children in lone mother households, and their stepfathers tend to be of higher «quality» than their biological fathers in terms of education, employment, psychopathology etc. (McLanahan et al, 2006) their outcomes and adjustment are not superior to children in lone mother households, although there may be cultural variations.

They may not be able to change the negative outcome for their own child but they can turn their negative experience into a helpful and educational one for others.

We find that parenting behavior also appears to help explain the different outcomes: after controlling for parenting, the gap between children of continuously married mothers and others shrinks from 14 percentiles to 7.5 percentiles.

There were no significant differences in outcome of home or hospital births attended by midwives for the other child health measures.

Researchers look for correlations between parenting and child outcomes, and then try to control for other factors (like socioeconomic status) using statistical analysis.

As you may be aware, in February 2013 the Government signed a pledge for «better health outcomes for children and young people», along with other stakeholders from across healthcare and local government.

There are other aspects of homebirth that contribute to excellent medium - and long - term outcomes for mothers and their homeborn children.

Whileparticipation inseveral home visiting programs is effective at improving children's cognitive and behavioural outcomes (e.g., Early Head Start, The Nurse Family Partnership and The Infant Health and Developmental program), few home visiting programs have been able to significantly improve pregnancy outcomes and reductions in child maltreatment have been found for some models, but not for others.

In other words, even when home visitation programs succeed in their goal of changing parent behaviour, these changes do not appear to produce significantly better child outcomes.21, 22 One recent exception, however, was a study of the Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) model with low - income Latino families showing changes in home parenting and better third - grade math achievement.23 Earlier evaluations of HIPPY found mixed results regarding program effectiveness.

Provides health - care professionals — including pediatricians, family practice providers, hospital nurses, school nurses, urgent care clinicians, and other health - care professionals — with an overview of the field of child welfare and suggests ways that health - care professionals and child welfare workers can work together to promote better outcomes for children and families involved with child welfare, including children in foster care.

In support of this model, multiple studies have shown the association between infant negative reactivity and later psychosocial outcomes such as problem behaviour and self - regulation to be moderated by parental behaviour, so that highly reactive children fare better than others when they experience optimal parenting but worse than others when they experience negative parenting.41 - 46 Further support is found in studies indicating that interventions targeting parental attitudes and / or behaviours are particularly effective for children with a history of negative reactive temperament.47, 49

We have long known that interactions with parents, caregivers, and other adults are important in a child's life, but new evidence shows that these relationships actually shape brain circuits and lay the foundation for later developmental outcomes, from academic performance to mental health and interpersonal skills.»

For other cognitive outcomes, associations with breastfeeding duration were not appreciably stronger among children of women who consumed more fish.

The program model is relationship - based and family - centered, promoting the idea that infants and their families are collaborators in developing an individualized program of support to maximize physical, mental, and emotional growth; health and other positive outcomes for infants and children from the well — baby to the special needs infant.

If not, consider that many families who had a poor outcome with a midwife have become bankrupt and have to rely on Medicaid and other forms of assistance to care for their child.

Thus, for these studies there is a clear reliance on either matching or statistical adjustment for the effects of other factors correlated with feeding method that may also influence child outcomes such as maternal IQ and / or parenting style.

A clue is provided by research which compared outcomes for children in single parent families, on the one hand, with those of children in «intact» families experiencing high levels of conflict, on the other; it found the children in the intact families fared less well.

They also note that polygyny was only associated with superior outcomes when fathers and children were co-resident: outcomes for other polygynously - married women were indistinguishable from those of monogamous women.

Kempe and her co-authors write that delaying or spreading out vaccines results in higher rates of under - vaccination and puts children and other vulnerable people in the population at risk for vaccine preventable diseases with potentially severe outcomes.

The outcome for children with cancer, HIV infection, and other serious diseases continues to improve, largely through the improved use of medications.

What happens to children of unmarried mothers,» eminent scholars Sara McLanahan of Princeton University and Christopher Jencks of Harvard University look at changes in family structure for both blacks and whites over the past 50 years, and note its effect on the educational attainment and other life outcomes of the children raised in single parent families.

What other outcomes might be appropriate for children who will live their entire lives in the 21st century?

Include roles for other educators that enable solid performers both to learn from excellent peers and to contribute to excellent outcomes for children.

And then for our research, we have to both have a good measure of value added and ensure that when we're using that measure, we are doing a good job of also accounting for other things that might be going on during a child's schooling that might also affect 8th - grade tests and high school outcomes.

With # 15 million set to go to eight new Partners in Practice, to expand a peer support programme between local authorities to improve children's services, and the other # 2 million being invested in improving leadership in children's social care services, which will be delivered through the Local Government Association (LGA), the funding will deliver hands - on peer support to other councils, to help improve outcomes for more children and their families.

It's a means of ensuring that our least fortunate children have access to the enabling knowledge and vocabulary that is the foundation of language proficiency, critical thinking, problem solving, and every other big picture academic outcome we seek for our least advantaged children.

On the one hand, this was an essential corrective for decades of the system's neglect and complacency; on the other, we have overcorrected to the point where we hold children insufficiently accountable for their educational outcomes.

Without the same rigorous tests, we can not be sure that the observed association between teacher value - added and long - term outcomes was not the result of other factors (for example, efforts made by parents with the strongest parenting skills to ensure their children were assigned to the most effective instructors).

Chelsea shares her leadership talents to support other HOPE schools and impact educational outcomes for more children through her role as a Principal Coach.

«Too often, urban families have children assigned to some of the worst schools in America and vouchers, tax credit scholarship programs and other forms of school choice opens the door to new possibilities, higher quality schools and better outcomes for these children.

The desired outcome of SEL, children and adults who apply understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships and make responsible decisions (CASEL, 2018), is admirable.

Over the past 30 years, Joan Cole Duffell has been an educator, writer, and leading advocate for positive outcomes for children, focusing on promoting children's social - emotional skills and the prevention of child abuse, bullying, and other forms of violence.

By helping education decision makers identify and apply what works in the area of comprehensive school reform, the CSRQ Center can help raise student achievement and improve other important student outcomes for millions of America's children.

Systems thinkers make connections and transfer their understanding of the dynamics of one system's structure to another when considering action.As systems thinkers influence the design, behaviors and outcomes of systems they must be learners, and inspire others to continually expand their capabilities to shape and prepare adults and children for the future.

We stand by their endeavors to secure school finance reform and improve education outcomes and opportunities for our public school children, especially those who are at - risk, English language learners, and students with disabilities and other special needs.

The coalition came together to push for school finance reform and improved educational opportunities and outcomes for Nevada public school children, especially those students who are at - risk, English language learners, gifted and talented, and students with disabilities or other special needs.

This report provides a new resource for understanding the state of urban public schools in the U.S. Geared specifically toward city leaders who want to evaluate how well traditional district and charter schools are serving all their city's children and how their schools compare to those in other cities, the report measures outcomes for all public schools, based on test scores and non-test indicators, in 50 mid - and large - sized cities.

A nonpartisan, nonprofit research, development, and service agency working with education and other communities throughout the United States and abroad, WestEd aims to improve education and other important outcomes for children, youth and adults.

Cross-boundary leadership is a philosophy that acknowledges that children, youth, and communities are served through multiple, independent systems and that leaders must forge partnerships with each other across systems to improve outcomes for everyone.

The CSRQ Center promises to help raise student achievement and improve other important student outcomes for millions of America's children by helping education decision makers identify and apply «what works» in the area of comprehensive school reform.

Five year, $ 3 million investment to investigate how the Montessori approach produces achievement outcomes for children age three to third grade and may reduce the achievement gap between children from under - resourced communities and other children.

To advance bold ideas and approaches that lead to better outcomes for children, Education Cities produces original research and reports for its members and others working in education.