Keeping up with students’ growing mental-health needs was a concern for districts long before the pandemic began. It’s even harder now, educators and psychologists say.

Keeping up with students’ growing mental-health needs was a concern for districts long before the pandemic began. It’s even harder now, educators and psychologists say.

Keeping up with students’ growing mental-health needs was a concern for districts long before the pandemic began. It’s even harder now, educators and psychologists say.

Autism spectrum disorders in children.

The children exposed to high levels of lead-laced drinking water from Michigan's Flint River are entering schools now and the school system is straining to meet their special education needs.

Springfield, Virginia : National Technical Information Service, 1974.

[Manchester] : School of Nursing Studies, University of Manchester, [1995?]

Saint Paul schools are in the market for a vendor to provide background checks, while the Education Technology Joint Powers Authority is seeking media repositories. A Texas district wants quotes on technology for new campuses.

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Nathan B. Cruze, Andreea L. Erciulescu, Balgobin Nandram, Wendy J. Barboza, Linda J. Young.

Source: Statistical Science, Volume 34, Number 2, 301--316.

Abstract:
In the United States, county-level estimates of crop yield, production, and acreage published by the United States Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (USDA NASS) play an important role in determining the value of payments allotted to farmers and ranchers enrolled in several federal programs. Given the importance of these official county-level crop estimates, NASS continually strives to improve its crops county estimates program in terms of accuracy, reliability and coverage. In 2015, NASS engaged a panel of experts convened under the auspices of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) for guidance on implementing models that may synthesize multiple sources of information into a single estimate, provide defensible measures of uncertainty, and potentially increase the number of publishable county estimates. The final report titled Improving Crop Estimates by Integrating Multiple Data Sources was released in 2017. This paper discusses several needs and requirements for NASS county-level crop estimates that were illuminated during the activities of the CNSTAT panel. A motivating example of planted acreage estimation in Illinois illustrates several challenges that NASS faces as it considers adopting any explicit model for official crops county estimates.

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Classified released a music video for his song, Good News, this week featuring a pack of kids hanging out with seniors at a continuing care home in Enfield, N.S. It was filmed before the COVID-19 outbreak in the province.

Penn State’s PROmoting School-community-university Partnerships to Enhance Resilience (PROSPER) project is continuing to connect and engage Pennsylvania families and keep schools informed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

OM uses a team car to transport teenagers with autism to Montenegro's only special needs school. But a better car is needed to continue.

We need a political system that mirrors the best in us.

BORIS Johnson has said Britain needs the "same spirit of national endeavour" to defeat the coronavirus as Second World War veterans demonstrated to topple Adolf Hitler.

NEIL Mackay (“Johnson? Sturgeon? When it comes to coronavirus they are both the same”, The Herald, May 5) lambasts Nicola Sturgeon and Boris Johnson for both taking an almost identical approach in their fight against Covid-19, somehow implying that this is in itself a fault.

You can learn almost anything on YouTube. It is very handy. But navigating through the crud to get to that educational material is a nightmare.

The money is better spent on sincere and hardworking teachers.

Without rigorous research that accurately reflects the current population, early education won't deliver for all students, write two education researchers.

IT was impossible to escape a heart-sinking feeling this week when reading reports that a senior UK Government source believed people were “addicted” to the furlough scheme.

The current system for accrediting schools of education isn't working, argue two former senior U.S. Department of Education officials. They think school districts and philanthropists can help.

With more than 130,000 black ELLs in public schools, White House and U.S. Department of Education officials will develop tools for educators.

Children with special health care needs (CSHCN) account for more than one-third of pediatric health care costs. Little is known regarding the impact of shared decision-making (SDM) over time on child health care expenditures and utilization.

In a national sample, we found that increasing SDM was associated with decreased health care costs and utilization for CSHCN. Results support prospective studies to determine if pediatric interventions to foster SDM reduce the financial burden of caring for CSHCN. (Read the full article)

The medical home is associated with beneficial outcomes in children with special health care needs and in the entire pediatric population. It is unknown if it benefits the majority of the pediatric population (ie, children without special health care needs).

This study is the first to demonstrate an association between the medical home and beneficial health care utilization, child health, and health-promoting behavior outcomes in children without special health care needs. (Read the full article)

Children with special health care needs present clinically with varied functional difficulties across an array of health conditions. Little attention has been given to the interaction of these descriptors at a population level, thereby not addressing the complexity of functional difficulties and their impact on the health of CSHCN.

The data demonstrate the relationships among functional difficulties and health conditions, which then improve our understanding of CSHCN and their needs. Functional difficulties contribute significantly to outcomes, such as emergency room visits, parental work patterns, and limitations in daily activities, and have implications for practice, training, policy, and research. (Read the full article)

Changes in resident work hours are believed to have an impact on resident education and patient safety.

This study provides an understanding of the impact of changes in resident work hours on the staffing strategies of children’s hospitals. (Read the full article)

The importance of transition from pediatric to adult health care for youth with special health care needs has gained increasing attention over the past decade, but fewer than half of this population received needed transition preparation in 2005–2006.

This study reports on transition findings from the 2009–2010 National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs and finds no discernible improvements since 2005–2006. New clinical recommendations and care processes should help to accelerate transition improvements in the future. (Read the full article)

The American Academy of Pediatrics has recommended that sibling donors should have an independent advocate. Defining the need for and role of this advocate is hampered by a lack of empirical data.

This study provides prospective family data regarding siblings’ experiences during HLA typing and donation pre- and posttransplantation. Most family members, including the siblings, perceive no choice in typing or donation, yet have few concerns and report positive aspects to participating. (Read the full article)

Parents of children with special health care needs and low-income children report more unmet specialty care needs. Care coordination is associated with increased and decreased referrals to specialty care, but whether care coordination is related to unmet needs is unknown.

Among children with special health care needs, care coordination is associated with lower odds of unmet specialty care needs regardless of whether care coordination was received within a medical home. This association was independent of household income. (Read the full article)

Massachusetts implemented a major health reform in 2006 to reduce uninsurance, improve access to care, and increase financial protection for its citizens, but little is known about its effect on privately and publicly insured children with special health care needs.

Massachusetts health reform improved access to specialists for privately insured children with special health care needs but did not reduce uninsurance, increase access to primary care, or improve financial protection. National reform may produce similarly modest outcomes for these children. (Read the full article)

More children with special health care needs are surviving to adulthood and entering the adult health care system. Effective transition of care can promote continuity of developmental and age-appropriate care for these individuals.

Existing studies provide modest transition care support. Methods for providing transition care warrant attention, and future research needs are wide ranging. Consistent and accepted measures of transition success are critical to establishing an adequate body of literature to affect practice. (Read the full article)

Children with special health care needs are a growing population in developed countries. They are at risk for poorer learning and behavioral outcomes, and their parents are more likely to have poorer mental health.

Four distinct and replicable special health care need profiles across 2 childhood epochs were categorized as none, transient, emerging, and persistent. The cumulative burden of special health care needs shaped adverse outcomes more than did point prevalence. (Read the full article)

Care coordination is a central part of the medical home model. Little is known about how care coordination is implemented in pediatrics and how it changes over time in primary care practices successfully adopting medical home principles.

In high-performing medical homes, care coordination evolved toward designing and carrying out routine activities and policies that aimed to forestall disruptions in care delivery. Investing in medical home teams, engaging electronic medical record systems, and improving workflow supported these changes. (Read the full article)

The National Math and Science Initiative's new tool aims to help the field look for patterns in STEM data, so educators and policy folks can fill in holes.

New iPods can be a critical part of Apple's strategy. Just don't think of them as music players.

The FDA estimates that between 45 and 50 students at a Massachusetts school for students with autism, emotional disturbances, and intellectual disabilities are subjected to electrical shocks through electrodes attached to their skin.

Without rigorous research that accurately reflects the current population, early education won't deliver for all students, write two education researchers.

Paul W. Newacheck
Jul 1, 1998; 102:117-123
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Merle McPherson
Jul 1, 1998; 102:137-139
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Mothers and children in Bangladesh’s refugee camps tell horrifying stories from recent months, many needing a place where they can be reminded of hope.

Governor Jack Markell today joined Delaware State Housing Authority (DSHA) for the release of the Delaware Housing Needs Assessment 2015-2020. The report, prepared by GCR Incorporated of New Orleans, Louisiana and The Reinvestment Fund (TRF) of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, will drive planning for housing resources at DSHA and in communities around the State. With this new analysis of housing needs and market conditions in the state for years 2015-2020, DSHA will be identifying priorities for the next five years and evaluating its programs and strategies.

OM’s Xenos team in Heilbronn ministers to immigrants in a holistic way by proclaiming the gospel and supporting them in their physical and emotional needs.