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Annotation: This manual describes how some schools and their communities have overcome key barriers to strong partnerships for school improvement. Barriers discussed include finding time, increasing the information about other partners, bridging school family differences, improving schools, and tapping external supports to strengthen school-family partnerships. The manual is designed for school administrators, teachers, policymakers, and parents to help families become more active participants in their children's education.

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Keywords: Barriers, Community role, Education, Educational attainment, Family school relations, Family support services, Literacy, Local initiatives, Model programs, Outreach, Parent participation, Safety, Teachers, Training, Volunteers

Annotation: This issue of "The Future of Children" contains articles focusing on issues affecting children's and adolescents' health, development, and educational achievement. Three articles focus on the relationship between children and environmental health hazards, case studies on the environmental risks to children, and on developing environmental policies with regard to children's health. Other articles focus on the reform of welfare-to-work programs and the impact on adolescent parents and their ability to support themselves and their children, issues affecting the well-being of immigrant families and their children, and educational issues such as the size of classes on educational achievement, school readiness, and secondary school outcomes for adolescents with serious emotional disturbances.

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Keywords: Academic achievement, Adolescent parents, Adolescents, Affective disorders, Child health, Children, Education, Employment programs, Environmental health, Equal opportunities, Family income, Family relations, Immigrants, Public policy, Risk factors, School readiness, Special health care needs, Welfare reform, Young adults

Annotation: This book contains a collection of essays by individual authors; each addresses some aspect of the epidemiology and prevention of adolescent injuries. The individual essays follow a brief commentary on methodological and conceptual issues. Topics covered are: traffic-related injuries, drowning, suicide, the role of handguns in homicides among adolescents and young adults, family violence and development during adolescence, occupational injuries, adolescent injury prevention in primary care, peer violence prevention programs in middle and high schools, post-traumatic stress disorder, and the role of mass media in injury causation and prevention.

Keywords: Adolescent development, Adolescents, Drowning, Epidemiology, Family violence, Firearms, High schools, Homicide, Injuries, Mass media, Middle schools, Motor vehicle injuries, Occupational injuries, Peer groups, Physician patient relations, Posttraumatic stress disorder, Prevention, Prevention programs, Primary care, School based programs, Suicide, Violence prevention, Young adults

Annotation: This report is part of a series of monthly seminars entitled Family-Centered Social Policy: The Emerging Agenda, conducted by the Family Impact Seminar. The publication provides meeting highlights and a background briefing report. This seminar focused on what is being learned about how to strengthen the family-school partnership and why this is so critical to school reform. Participants focused primarily on the elementary school level.

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Keywords: Educational change, Educational policy, Family school relations

Annotation: This book presents the findings of the Carnegie Foundation study on adolescence. It offers a comprehensive overview of normal adolescent development and provides an interdisciplinary synthesis of research into the key biological, social, and psychological changes that occur during this stage of the life span. It also addresses the social, ethnic, family, school, leisure, and work contexts of adolescent life which play an important role in development.

Keywords: Adolescent development, Adolescent health, Family relations, Mass media, Mental health, Peer groups, Puberty, School health, Sexuality, Social behavior, Youth

Annotation: This book was written to help educators work more effectively with pregnant and parenting students. It features information and case studies to increase understanding of the problem, and includes practical ideas for use by educators and school staff members. Topics include the role of the school and educators, classroom interactions, parental and family involvement, pregnancy prevention, determinants of adolescent pregnancy, pregnant adolescents' decision-making alternatives, and the role of organizations. Appendices include policy statements, program descriptions, and excerpts from newspaper articles and books.

Keywords: Adolescent parents, Adolescent pregnancy, Family school relations, Pregnant adolescents, Prevention programs, School health programs, School health services

Annotation: This book is based on the proceedings of the Public Health Social Work Institute held at Berkeley in June 1978. It discusses prevention of undesirable consequences in pregnancy; species specific patterns of human reproductive behavior; alternative birthing; interplay between nutritional and psychosocial factors of child development; high school based child care settings; immunization; health needs of adolescents; adolescence and contraception; adolescence and venereal disease; adolescent family planning; peer sex education; chronic disease; crisis intervention; the educational, professional, and policy perspectives of prevention; autogenic training; prevention of obesity in children and adolescents; and early maternal infant bonding. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Service]

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Keywords: Adolescents, Alternative birth styles, Bonding, Child care services, Child development, Children, Chronic illnesses and disabilities, Contraception, Crisis intervention, Family planning, Health, High schools, Immunization, Mother child relations, Nutrition, Obesity, Peer education, Pregnancy, Psychosocial development, Reproductive behavior, Sexual behavior, Sexually transmitted diseases, Social workers