Sean E Reardon,Rachel A Valentino,Kenneth A Shores
Sean E Reardon
How well do U.S. students read? In this article, Sean Reardon, Rachel Valentino, and Kenneth Shores rely on studies using data from national and international literacy assessments to answer this question. In part, the answer depends on the ...
Richard Murnane,Isabel Sawhill,Catherine Snow
Richard Murnane
Stephen A Rauch,Bruce P Lanphear
Stephen A Rauch
Much public attention and many resources are focused on medical research to identify risk factors and mitigate symptoms of disability for individual children. But this focus will inevitably fail to prevent disabilities. Stephen Rauch and Br...
Paul H Wise
Paul H Wise
Technological innovation is transforming the prevalence and functional impact of child disability, the scale of social disparities in child disability, and perhaps the essential meaning of disability in an increasingly technology-dominated ...
How can quality improvement enhance the lives of children with disabilities? [0.03%]
质量改进如何改善残疾儿童的生活？
James M Perrin
James M Perrin
Much attention has aided measurement and improvement in the quality of health care during the past two decades, with new ways to define and measure quality, recognition that doing so can identify strategies to enhance care, and systematic e...
Peter G Szilagyi
Peter G Szilagyi
Few people would disagree that children with disabilities need adequate health insurance. But what kind of health insurance coverage would be optimal for these children? Peter Szilagyi surveys the current state of insurance coverage for chi...
Laudan Aron,Pamela Loprest
Laudan Aron
Education is important for all children, but even more so for children with disabilities, whose social and economic opportunities may be limited. In this article, Laudan Aron and Pamela Loprest assess how well the nation's education system ...
Mark Stabile,Sara Allin
Mark Stabile
Childhood disabilities entail a range of immediate and long-term economic costs that have important implications for the well-being of the child, the family, and society but that are difficult to measure. In an extensive research review, Ma...
Liam Delaney,James P Smith
Liam Delaney
This article first documents evidence on the changing prevalence of childhood physical and mental health problems, focusing on the development of childhood health conditions in the United States. Authors Liam Delaney and James Smith present...
Comparative Study
The Future of children. 2012 Spring;22(1):43-63. DOI:10.1353/foc.2012.0003 2012
Neal Halfon,Amy Houtrow,Kandyce Larson et al.
Neal Halfon et al.
Americans' perceptions of childhood disability have changed dramatically over the past century, as have their ideas about health and illness, medical developments, threats to children's health and development, and expectations for child fun...