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Logic Models for Selecting, Designing, and Implementing Evidence-Based Leadership Interventions: Companion Guide to School Leadership Interventions Under the Every Student Succeeds Act

This guide describes six types of school leadership interventions, summarizes common components of evidence-based interventions, and unpacks the relationships between the intervention activities and student outcomes.

Dec 14, 2017
Journal Article

Journal Article

A Cost-Analysis of an Interdisciplinary Pediatric Chronic Pain Clinic

An interdisciplinary approach to management of chronic pediatric pain can reduce costs for hospitals and insurers.

Dec 14, 2017
Journal Article

Journal Article

How Well Is the Medical Home Working for Latino and Black Children?

Medical homes may benefit Black children but not the majority of Latino children.

Dec 14, 2017
Journal Article

Journal Article

The Intersection Between Sleep Science and Policy: Introduction to the Special Issue on School Start Times

This introduction to a special issue of Sleep Health highlights key themes in the growing literature on sleep and adolescent health.

Dec 14, 2017
Report

Improving School Leadership Under the Every Student Succeeds Act

The Every Student Succeeds Act gives states and districts new opportunities to invest in school leadership. Looking at the evidence base on school leadership interventions can help inform policymakers' decisions.

Dec 14, 2017
News Release

News Release

Showing Adolescents Graphic Anti-Smoking Posters May Encourage Some to Try Smoking

Exposing teens to graphic anti-smoking posters may actually increase the risk that some start smoking. Some teens who viewed a poster depicting gruesome displays of smoking-caused diseases actually reported being more susceptible to cigarette smoking after viewing the displays during a shopping trip.

Dec 13, 2017
Journal Article

Journal Article

Randomized Controlled Trial of a Coordinated Care Intervention to Improve Risk Factor Control After Stroke or Transient Ischemic Attack in the Safety Net: Secondary Stroke Prevention by Uniting Community and Chronic Care Model Teams Early to End Disparities (SUCCEED)

A multi-disciplinary intervention using a Chronic Care Model framework to prevent a secondary stroke among underserved populations will be tested in a randomized controlled trial.

Dec 12, 2017
Project

Policy Options for Improving Child Welfare

Every year, about 3 million children in the U.S. face abuse or neglect. Expanding prevention and treatment services in the child welfare system could improve the lives of children and reduce lifetime expenses by 3 to 7 percent.

Dec 11, 2017
News Release

News Release

Reforms to U.S. Child Welfare System Could Reduce Costs and Improve Outcomes

Expanding prevention and treatment services in the U.S. child welfare system could improve the lives of children and reduce total lifetime expenses of such services by 3 to 7 percent.

Dec 11, 2017
Research Brief

Improving Children's Lives: Balancing Investments in Prevention and Treatment in the Child Welfare System

Increasing prevention and treatment improves children's experience and long-term outcomes while paying for itself by reducing lifetime child welfare system costs.

Dec 11, 2017
Report

Improving Child Welfare Outcomes

Policies aimed at increasing prevention and kinship care in the child welfare system improve children's experience and long-term outcomes. This approach is also cost effective, reducing total spending by 3 to 7 percent.

Dec 11, 2017
Research Brief

Research Brief

How Does Personalized Learning Affect Student Achievement?

Describes the concept and implementation of personalized learning and considers achievement findings in a small sample of schools.

Dec 7, 2017
Journal Article

Journal Article

Promoting Health from the Pulpit: A Process Evaluation of HIV Sermons to Reduce HIV Stigma and Promote Testing in African American and Latino Churches

Clergy who embedded HIV messaging into sermons showed wide variation in their fidelity to communicating key messages.

Dec 7, 2017
Journal Article

Journal Article

Retrospective Review of Comorbid Conditions in a Multidisciplinary Pediatric Weight Management Clinic

Multidisciplinary pediatric obesity clinics can help patients make healthy lifestyle choices.

Dec 7, 2017
Research Brief

How the ESSA Can Support Social and Emotional Learning

An evaluation of social and emotional learning (SEL) interventions can help states determine how they can use ESSA funding to support SEL programs and which ones meet ESSA evidence requirements.

Dec 5, 2017
Journal Article

Journal Article

A Cluster-Randomized Trial of Getting To Outcomes' Impact on Sexual Health Outcomes in Community-Based Settings

Getting to Outcomes, an implementation support intervention, can strengthen evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention programs.

Dec 5, 2017
Report

Social and Emotional Learning Interventions Under the ESSA

A review of social and emotional learning interventions for K–12 students can help education policymakers identify those that satisfy ESSA evidence requirements and meet their local needs.

Dec 5, 2017
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Tool

Essential Nontechnical Skills Service Members Gain During On-the-Job Experience: A Resource for Leaders and Hiring Managers

This reference booklet provides information to help civilian employers understand the nontechnical skills that transitioning service members and veterans have developed through on-the-job experience in the military.

Dec 4, 2017
Tool

Essential Nontechnical Skills Service Members Gain During On-the-Job Experience: A Resource for Veterans and Transitioning Service Members

Provides information to help veterans and transitioning service members communicate to civilian employers about the nontechnical skills they have developed through military training and education programs and on-the-job experience.

Dec 4, 2017
Tool

Tool

What Veterans Bring to Civilian Workplaces: A Prototype Toolkit for Helping Veterans Communicate to Private-Sector Employers About the Nontechnical Skills Developed in the Military

Presents a prototype toolkit that describes the nontechnical skills developed through military training, education, and on-the-job experiences, to help veterans communicate about the value they can bring to civilian workplaces.

Dec 4, 2017

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