How Administrators Understand Learning Difficulties

1997 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 223-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard L. Allington ◽  
Anne Mcgill-Franzen ◽  
Ruth Schick
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
School Districts ◽  
General Education ◽  
School Administrators ◽  
Learning Difficulties ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
At Risk Children ◽  
Potential Strategy ◽  
Sphere Of Influence ◽  
Central Sphere

Abstract School administrators in six school districts were interviewed. Each district had been identified previously as having increasing rates of retention in grade or transitional-grade placements and increasing incidence of the identification of students as having disabilities. School administrators offered a variety of explanations for students' learning difficulties and offered a number of suggested remedies. virtually all of the explanations and remedies placed the school outside the central sphere of influence. In other words, in these interviews administrators offered few ideas for altering the current general education programs as a potential strategy for addressing the problems of at-risk children.

Maintaining a Safety Net and Peace for Former Child Soldiers in Africa

2019 ◽  
pp. 56-81
Author(s):  
Florence Nyemba ◽  
Rufaro Chitiyo
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Peace Education ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Child Soldiers ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
At Risk Children ◽  
Former Child Soldiers ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

This chapter focuses on the challenges and opportunities associated with the implementation of peace education programs in Africa. Peace education programs are used widely to create peaceful environments for at-risk children. Their intended goals are to end violence through modeling human consciousness to resolve conflicts peacefully and to provide children with a stable socioeconomic future. Using a systematic review of literature, the authors examine how humanitarian agencies with support from the World Bank utilize peace education programs to create safety nets for former child soldiers in Africa. The challenges and opportunities of such programs are examined. The authors then propose for the adoption of a community-based participatory practice to facilitate the sustainability of peace education programs. The chapter will benefit at-risk children in war-torn African regions and all stakeholders involved in the creation of safe environments for children.

Socioeconomic Status and Drug Abuse Prevention in a Metropolitan Region

1979 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 359-369
Author(s):  
Leslie Horst ◽  
Don C. Des Jarlais
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Drug Abuse ◽  
School Districts ◽  
School Administrators ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Drug Education ◽  
Drug Abuse Prevention ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Community Attitudes ◽  
Team Productivity

Teams of students, teachers, administrators, and others from twenty-eight school districts received training to carry out drug education programs in their home school districts. There was a moderate relationship between the socioeconomic status of a school district and the implementation of drug education programs by its team. Other factors related to the socioeconomic status of a community are discussed in terms of their effect on team productivity: community attitudes toward drug abuse; the capacity of teams to involve parents; and the availability of leisure time. Support from school administrators is seen to be particularly important for teams. Clearly, team success or failure was multiply-determined.

Early Prediction of Reading Achievement

1994 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 244-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Panayota Y. Mantzicopoulos ◽  
Delmont Morrison
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Learning Difficulties ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Socioeconomic Background ◽  
Second Grade ◽  
Early Intervention Services ◽  
At Risk Children ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Not At Risk

The present study examined the early profiles of students who were screened for learning difficulties with search (Silver & Hagin, 1981), an early identification measure, and were found to be adequate or inadequate readers at the end of second grade. In order to gain insight into the problem of inaccurate classifications of atrisk status at kindergarten, this study investigated students' performance on cognitive measures and behavior problems, as well as socioeconomic background and teacher predictions of learning difficulties. Our results indicated that search tends to underidentify as not at risk some children from higher socioeconomic backgrounds and to over-identify as at risk children from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. Information from classroom teachers and individually administered assessment tools is necessary and useful in the process of identifying those young children who are truly at risk and in need of early intervention services.

Teen Suicide

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 88 (1) ◽  
pp. 188-189
Author(s):  
RICHARD S. ADLER ◽  
MICHAEL S. JELLINEK
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
School Districts ◽  
Positive Reaction ◽  
School System ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Grade Levels ◽  
Large School ◽  
At Risk Children

In Reply.— Dr Sahler's positive reaction to our article is appreciated. We agree that suicide is often a district-wide event. A school system should be vigilant for at-risk children of all grade levels and be prepared to assist them. In large school districts, however, it may not be prudent to notify parents of grade schoolers unlikely to have contact with the victim. There seems to be a trade-off between attempting to trace every possible at-risk contact of the victim and casting too wide a net.

Un Kilo de Ayuda

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Kay Gugerty ◽  
Dean Karlan
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Impact Evaluation ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Health Data ◽  
Outcome Data ◽  
Monitoring Data ◽  
Program Monitoring ◽  
At Risk Children ◽  
The World ◽  
The Right

This case explores two common challenges facing organizations around the world: how to collect the right amount of data, and how to credibly use outcome data collected during program monitoring. Health promoters at Un Kilo de Ayuda (UKA) in Mexico use regularly collected health data on more than 50,000 children to structure their work, track their progress, and identify at-risk children in time to treat health problems. In this case, readers will assess the tradeoffs between actionability and responsibility that UKA faces in determining how much data to collect. They will also examine the challenges of monitoring data on a program’s outcomes instead of outputs, particularly when it comes to asserting a program’s impact on those outcomes. Finally, readers will propose ways to generate credible data on one of the organization’s programs when plans for an impact evaluation fall through.

Protecting Against Delinquency in Early Adolescence With Nonverbal Intelligence and Neighborhood Social Capital

2021 ◽  
pp. 027243162110203
Author(s):  
Glenn D. Walters
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Social Capital ◽  
Protective Factors ◽  
Conduct Problems ◽  
Nonverbal Intelligence ◽  
Neighborhood Social Capital ◽  
At Risk Children ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Childhood Conduct Problems ◽  
Matrix Reasoning

The goal of this study was to test nonverbal intelligence and neighborhood social capital as protective factors against future delinquency in early adolescent youth placed at risk by virtue of their involvement in childhood conduct problems. Analyzing longitudinal data from 3,028 youth (1,565 boys, 1,463 girls) in one cohort of the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC) and 3,682 youth (1,896 boys, 1,786 girls) in a second cohort of the LSAC, nonverbal intelligence, as measured by the Matrix Reasoning subscale of the WISC-IV, displayed a consistent moderating effect on the conduct problems–future delinquency relationship. According to these results, conduct problems were slightly but significantly less likely to lead to delinquency when nonverbal intelligence was high than when it was low or moderate. By shielding at-risk children from future delinquency, protective factors like high nonverbal intelligence may provide a means by which delinquency can be prevented or reduced.

Reducing asthma hospitalisations in at‐risk children: A systematic review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Y H Chen ◽  
Leanne Saxon ◽  
Colin Robertson ◽  
Harriet Hiscock
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
At Risk ◽  
At Risk Children

Looking for and replicating model programs for ‘at risk’ children and families

2004 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-36
Author(s):  
Frank Ainsworth
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Family Preservation ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
At Risk Children ◽  
Systematic Effort ◽  
The Us ◽  
Program Innovation ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Model Programs

At the present time there is a need for a new generation of programs to address the needs of ‘at risk’ children and families. This is an issue that is exercising the minds of service planners in both government and non-government community service organisations. This need arises from the fact that many existing programs have yet to be rigorously evaluated and are of questionable effectiveness. This lack of evidence of effectiveness does not sit well in the current climate of accountability. It also runs contrary to the increasingly strident calls for evidence based practice.Many new programs arrive in Australia from the US as this country is often the source of program innovation as illustrated by the importation in the 1980s and 1990s of family preservation and family reunification programs. In the US, promotion of ‘model programs' has taken another step and a systematic effort at program replication is now in evidence. The question is, how might model programs from overseas be successfully replicated in Australia? And what is required, if anything, to replicate these models effectively taking account of our different cultural traditions?

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