TOPIC: Education, Health and Mental Health Reports
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Relevant Documents, Resources, and Tools on the Internet
Education
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A Primer on America's Schools
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Beating the Odds: A City-By-City Analysis of the Student Performance and Achievement Gaps On State Assessments
- The Condition of Education 2011
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Education at a Glance OECD Indicators
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Equity and Excellence in American Education
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Examining comprehensive school reform
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From Large to Small: Strategies for Personalizing the High School
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Gaining Ground in the Middle Grades: Why Some Schools Do Better
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Getting smarter, becoming fairer
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Health Care reform: What is in it for Adolescents?
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"High Schools of the Millennium, "from American Youth Policy Forum
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"High Schools That Work: State Policies That Support Student Achievement"
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How well are American students learning?
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Levers for Change: Pathways for State-to-District Assistance in Underperforming School Districts
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Mapping 2005 State Proficiency Standards onto the National Assessment of Education
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Monitoring School Quality: An Indicators Report
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National Assessment of Educational Progress 2008: Trends in Academic Progress
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National Standards for Parent/Family Involvement Programs
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No Child Left Behind (NCLB) - Principals.org
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Our impoverished view of educational reform
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Overview and Inventory of State Education Reforms
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Overview of Public Elementary and Secondary students, staff, schools districts, revenues, and expenditures
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Parsing the Achievement Gap II (2009) Educational Testing Service Policy Information Report
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Problems with the use of student test scores to evaluate teachers
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Projections of high school graduates
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Redesigning the American High School, National Governors Association
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Research Perspectives on School Reform
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Results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress
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State Education Reforms, National Center for Education Statistics
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State high school exit exams: a challenging year
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State Test Score Trends Through 2008-09, Part 2: Slow and Uneven Progress in Narrowing Gaps.
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The changing landscape of American Public Education: New students, new schools
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"The
Class-Size Reduction Program: Boosting Student Achievement in Schools Across
the Nation"
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The Condition of Education, 2008
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The Schools We Deserve
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Transforming the American High School
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Transforming the federal role in k-12 education
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United States High School Sophomores: A Twenty-two year comparison, 1982-2002.
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What research says about unequal funding for schools in America
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World Education Report: Teachers and Teaching in a Changing World
Health
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Online Database of Health Policy Expanded to Lawmakers and RWJF Program Officers
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010: How Does it Help Adolescents and Young Adults
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Promoting Health: Intervention Strategies from Social and Behavioral Research
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Raising Teens: A Synthesis of Research and a Foundation for Action
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Recommendations for the Framework and Format of Healthy People 2020
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Research Priorities in Adolescent Health: An Analysis and Synthesis of Research Recommendations
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Risks and Opportunities: Synthesis of Studies on Adolescence
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School Health Guidelines to Prevent Unintentional Injuries and Violence
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School Health Policies and Practices Study
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Trends in Adolescent and Young Adult Health in the United States
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What is the Role of Public Schools in Helping Children Succeed In and Out of School?
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What Does Government Spend on Children? Evidence from Five Cities
Mental Health
Video Clips
Related Agencies and Websites
Relevant Publications That Can Be Obtained Through Libraries
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Challenges in Adolescent Health Care: Workshop Report. By Institute of Medicine. National Academies Press. 2007.
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Education for all Global Monitoring Report. By UNESCO. Oxford University Press. 2008.
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Effectiveness of School-based Prevention and Intervention Programs for Children and Adolescents with Emotion Disturbance: A Meta-Analysis. 2009. L. Reddy, et al., Journal of School Psychology.
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Grading the Nation's Report Card: Research from the Evaluation of NAEP. Raju, Nambury S., Ed. February 2000.
- Health, Education, Employment, Social Security, Welfare, and Veterans Reports. (2011). United States Government Accountability.
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Risk through the Years: A Statistical Portrait of Young People's Perceptions and Experiences Relative to those of the Older Generations. (2009) A. Cebulla. Journal of Youth Studies. 12(1), p. 39-56.
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The Mental Health of Children and Adolescents: An Area of Global Neglect. By H. Remschmidt, B. Nurcombe, M. L. Belfer, N. Sartorious & A.Okasha. Oxford university Press. 2008.
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