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Kansas Action for Children, Inc., Topeka. – 2000
This KIDS COUNT Data Book provides state and county data on the well-being of Kansas' children. The statistical portrait is based on 22 indicators of well-being: (1) births to single teens; (2) children living in poverty; (3) children receiving free school meals; (4) children in families receiving economic assistance; (5) childhood deaths; (6)…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Birth Weight, Births to Single Women, Child Abuse
Sampson, Amy E. – 2001
This Kids Count Data Book provides state and regional trends in the well-being of Connecticut's children. The statistical portrait is based on 19 indicators of well-being: (1) children in families receiving welfare; (2) children receiving free or reduced-price meals; (3) high school employment; (4) births to teen mothers; (5) low birth weight; (6)…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Birth Weight, Births to Single Women, Child Abuse
Cunningham, Michelle Doucette – 1999
This Kids Count data book examines statewide trends in the well-being of Connecticut's children. The report first examines how well children have faired during the past 100 years in terms of economics, education, health and safety, and race relations, and how they are doing at the start of the 21st century. This section also outlines the state's…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Birth Weight, Child Abuse
Wilson, Louis N. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1911
This bulletin contains 1,697 bibliographic entries relating to child study. All publications listed in the bibliography were published between 1908 and 1909. A subject index is included. [Best copy available has been provided.]
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Bibliographies, Child Development
Puma, Michael; Bell, Stephen; Cook, Ronna; Heid, Camilla; Lopez, Michael – Administration for Children & Families, 2005
The Congressionally-mandated Head Start Impact Study is being conducted across 84 nationally representative grantee/delegate agencies. Approximately 5,000 newly entering 3- and 4-year-old children applying for Head Start were randomly assigned to either a Head Start group that had access to Head Start program services or to a non-Head Start group…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Program Effectiveness, Parenting Styles, Data Collection
Hood, WIlliam R. Comp. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1919
In an earlier publication of the Bureau of Education Bulletin, 1915, No. 47, "Digest of State Laws Relating to Public Education" an effort was made to summarize all State school laws of a general nature which were in force on January 1,1915. The purpose of the bulletin presented here is to supplement the bulletin of 1915 with a…
Descriptors: Laws, Public Education, Educational Legislation, State Legislation
Reeve, Margaretta, Willis; Lombard, Ellen C. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1927
This two-part bulletin updates growth and activities of the parent-teacher associations. Part I, History and Progress of the Parent-Teacher Movement (Margaretta Willis Reeve), points to the Congress of Mothers, founded in 1897, as adopting parent-teacher cooperation as part of its program; and describes its evolution, purpose, and activities as…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Trends, Expenditures, Program Descriptions
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Bandura, Albert – Health Education & Behavior, 2004
This article examines health promotion and disease prevention from the perspective of social cognitive theory. This theory posits a multifaceted causal structure in which self-efficacy beliefs operate together with goals, outcome expectations, and perceived environmental impediments and facilitators in the regulation of human motivation, behavior,…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Health Promotion, Self Efficacy, Prevention
Green, Morris, Ed. – 1994
The goal of the Bright Futures project is to respond to the emerging preventive and health promotion needs of infants, children, and adolescents. Bright Futures is sponsored by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the United States Public Health Service and the Medicaid Bureau of the Health Care Financing Administration. Over 100 professionals,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Abuse, Child Caregivers, Child Health
Minnesota Univ., Duluth. – 1993
This document is the proceedings of a cross-cultural education conference held in Russia. The conference had four major themes: learning and development, family involvement in education, community and social context of education, and pedagogy. Educational levels discussed ranged from early childhood to university. The body of the document is…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Child Development, Child Health, Cognitive Development
North Dakota Univ., Grand Forks. North Dakota Kids Count. – 1997
This Kids Count report details statewide trends in the well-being of North Dakota's children. The statistical report is based on indicators of child well-being in six areas: (1) family composition, including foster care placement; (2) economic conditions, including children in near or extreme poverty; (3) child health, including low birthweight,…
Descriptors: American Indians, Birth Weight, Births to Single Women, Child Abuse
Dahlstrom, Sherryl M.; High, Rhonda L. – 1998
This Kids Count data book provides information on indicators of the well-being of Arkansas' children. The report's introduction discusses factors contributing to increased attention to children and families, the need for broad-based community collaborations to address children and family needs, and cultural changes influencing families. Data…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Birth Weight, Child Health, Child Welfare
Maine Children's Alliance, Augusta. – 1997
This Kids Count report details statewide trends in the well-being of Maine's children. The statistical portrait is based on indictors children's well-being in four areas: (1) physical and mental health; (2) social and economic opportunity; (3) community and family environment; and (4) education and learning. The report's introduction describes…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Birth Weight, Births to Single Women, Child Health
Maine Children's Alliance, Augusta. – 1998
This Kids Count report details statewide trends in the well-being of Maine's children. The statistical portrait is based on indicators of children's well-being in four areas: (1) physical and mental health; (2) community and family environment; (3) social and economic opportunity; and (4) education and learning. The report's introduction describes…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Birth Weight, Births to Single Women, Child Health
Association for Children of New Jersey, 2004
New Jersey's poorest and most vulnerable children--those living in the cities--suffer even more disproportionately in many ways now than a decade ago. From the 1990s to early 2000s, children living in 25 of New Jersey's largest urban areas fared worse than statewide averages on many indicators of child well-being. In this, the Association for…
Descriptors: Well Being, Urban Areas, Urban Youth, Poverty
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