"State policymakers' attention to teacher quality—an issue education research shows is essential to improving schooling outcomes for racial minority students—is highly responsive to low graduation rates among white students, but not to low...
"The American Medical Association (AMA) has just yesterday adopted a new policy that declares obesity a disease. The group says that now obesity is a disease it will require a range of medical interventions to advance treatment and prevention. Over 35...
"$75 billion proposal would expand access for pre-kindergarten learning.... "The U.S. Secretary of Education made a stop in Butler County on Thursday to tout President Barack Obama’s $75 billion proposal to expand access for pre-kindergarten...
"...Drill down to the level of detail required in rewriting major state law, as many sympathetic lawmakers and their allies are finding this spring, and it starts to get more complex. "Make that a lot more complex. "So far, advocates for children say...
"About a third of women worldwide have been physically or sexually assaulted by a former or current partner, according to the first major review of violence against women.... "In a series of papers released on Thursday by the World Health Organization...
"Mindfulness -- a mental training that develops sustained attention that can change the ways people think, act and feel -- could reduce symptoms of stress and depression and promote wellbeing among school children, according to a new study published...
"Fifteen years ago the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) study found that children exposed to traumatic events were more likely to develop mental and behavioral health problems like depression and...
"The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) and the National Link Coalition launched the first-ever toolkit to help communities build coalitions to address the link between animal cruelty and human violence. The resource was...
"Liberal Democrat Peer Baroness Brinton led a debate on the level of education support and mental health provision available to children who are severely bullied at school, on 20 June 2013. "According to bullying charity, Red Balloon, over 16,000...
"...Led by Pastor B.T. Rice of New Horizon Christian Church... "The St. Louis Initiative to Reduce Violence (SIRV) is a grassroots effort to increase community safety, engage youth to build trust, and increase the quality of life for families and...
"Early childhood trauma, often the product of growing up in a dysfunctional family system, is the predominant factor for many of the lifestyle issues and chronic illness we as naturopaths see day in and day out. Our naturopathic philosophical...
" In the following commentary, Dr. Resmiye Oral outlines the history of the University of Iowa’s Child Protection Program in preparation for the 2014 Provost’s Global Forum, “Child Abuse: A Global Responsibility.” In what...
Presentation by Robert Franks, PhD Connecticut Center for Effective Practice Child Health and Development Institute http://www.governor.ct.gov/malloy/lib/malloy/SHAC_Doc_2013.04.26_Franks_presentation.pdf Please see more presentations in the...
Abstract Main Results We included 38 studies (15,903 participants) in this review, 18 of which were cluster-randomised trials (11,995 participants) and two were quasi-randomised trials (399 participants). We included 33 studies in the meta-analyses....