America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2009
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Total Pages: 216
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Youth Culture 101
Author: Walt Mueller
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2008-11-04
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 0310669901
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCPYU President Walt Mueller's critically acclaimed book, Understanding Today's Youth Culture, is widely recognized as one of the most thorough and comprehensive overviews of youth culture today. This Gold Medallion Book Award winner is used as a seminal text in colleges, universities, and seminaries around the world, but is especially noted for its honest and easy to read style. The book approaches youth culture from a distinctively Christian perspective and contains chapters on a variety of topics including: music, media, sexuality, materialism, drugs and alcohol, and spirituality. A great resource for parents, educators, youth workers, and pastors.
Education at a Glance 2005 OECD Indicators
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2005-09-13
Total Pages: 435
ISBN-13: 9264011919
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a rich, comparable, and up-to-date array of education indicators covering participation, expenditure, resources, outcomes, and management.
America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being (2011)
Author: Traci Cook
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 2011-07-21
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1437989276
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics develops priorities for collecting data on children and youth, improve the reporting and dissemination of information on the status of children to the policy community and the general public, and produce more complete data on children at the State and local levels. This report presents key indicators grouped in seven sections: family and social environment, economic circumstances, health care, physical environment and safety, behavior, education, and health. In addition, this year's report includes a new indicator on teen immunizations that will allow the tracking of newly recommended adolescent vaccines. Extensive charts, tables and graphs. A print on demand report.
Youth Indicators 2005
Author: Mary Ann Fox
Publisher: National Center for Education Statistics
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 140
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKEducation Department Publication NCES 2005-050. 5th edition. Acknowledges that learning may occur across many different settings and may be influenced by circumstances and experiences in various social contexts. Presents a selection of indicators that provide a broad perspective on youth. Uses trend data that cut across disciplines and agency lines. Provides information on both positive and negative aspects of the youth experience. Contains indicators that have been adapted from various other federal reports, as well as indicators that have been constructed specifically for this report.
Flourishing Children
Author: Laura H. Lippman
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-07-08
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 9401786070
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume presents the results of the Flourishing Children Project. The study addressed gaps in the research on indicators of positive development of adolescents. Such indicators are essential for the balanced and scientifically sound study of adolescents. Yet measures of many aspects of flourishing are not available, and when they do exist, they are rarely measured in a developmentally appropriate manner for adolescents. In addition, they are often too long for program evaluations and surveys, have not been tested on diverse populations, nor carefully validated as predictors of positive outcomes. The Flourishing Children Project undertook the development of scales for adolescents ages 12-17 for 19 aspects of flourishing covering six domains: flourishing in school and work, personal flourishing, flourishing in relationships, relationship skills, helping others to flourish, and environmental stewardship. This volume describes the four-stage process of developing the scales, including: Reviewing the literature for extant measures for items to test and synthesizing the existing research into consensus definitions for each construct; conducting cognitive testing of items with adolescents and their parents; pilot testing the items; and conducting psychometric analyses.
Indicators of Children's Well-Being
Author: Asher Ben-Arieh
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2006-03-08
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 1402042426
DOWNLOAD EBOOKROBERT C. GRANGER William T. Grant Foundation During the past 10 years or so, a number of researchers, policymakers, and prac- tioners have made important progress on the identi?cation and use of indicators of children’s well-being. The United States federal government, via the Department of Health and Human Services and the National Institutes of Health, as well as such private funders as the Annie E. Casey Foundation, have supported many of these efforts. During this time, the William T. Grant Foundation, who was not a primary funder of such activities, was nevertheless one of the many institutions bene?ting from the work. Fortunately, Asher Ben-Arieh, Larry Aber, and Bob Goerge persuaded us to support a working conference on how to assess the effects of indicator usage on policiesandprograms.Thisvolumeistheresultoftheirtalentsandtheclearthinking of many of their colleagues. It is my pleasure to introduce the volume with a few thoughts about its contributions and the questions that remain.
Education at a Glance 2019 OECD Indicators
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2019-09-10
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 926488811X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEducation at a Glance is the authoritative source for information on the state of education around the world. It provides data on the structure, finances and performance of education systems across OECD countries and a number of partner economies. The 2019 edition includes a focus on tertiary education with new indicators on tertiary completion rates, doctoral graduates and their labour market outcomes, and on tertiary admission systems, as well as a dedicated chapter on the Sustainable Development Goal 4.
Social Welfare Policy and Advocacy
Author: Bruce S. Jansson, Ph.D.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2019-03-11
Total Pages: 638
ISBN-13: 1506384056
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSocial Welfare Policy and Advocacy presents a multi-level framework to show students how micro, mezzo, and macro policy advocacy can be used effectively by social workers in eight policy sectors: healthcare, gerontology, safety-net, child and family, mental health, education, immigration, and criminal justice. Author Bruce S. Jansson identifies seven core problems within each sector and discusses the skills social workers need, the challenges they face, and the interventions they can use at each level of advocacy. Readers will gain knowledge of social welfare policy issues and be equipped with essential tools for engaging in policy advocacy.
Social Welfare Policy and Advocacy
Author: Bruce S. Jansson
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2015-03-04
Total Pages: 667
ISBN-13: 1483377903
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSocial Welfare Policy and Advocacy: Advancing Social Justice through 8 Policy Sectors provides the first framework that links micro, mezzo, and macro policy advocacy, demonstrating how each type can be used to promote social justice in health, gerontology, safety net, child welfare, education, immigrants/global, mental health, and criminal justice sectors. Author Bruce S. Jansson identifies seven core problems within each sector as well as the skills social workers need, the challenges they face, and the interventions they can use at each level of advocacy. Integrated vignettes, video clips, and robust resources underscore the text's hands-on, advocacy approach. Relevant to many Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS) including policy practice, the book is designed for policy foundation courses.
