11 In 2000, the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) reported that 94,000 students w... more 11 In 2000, the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) reported that 94,000 students with autism were receiving special education services in public schools. By 2008, that number increased to 336,000 students (NCES, 2010). Currently, over 6.6 million students, or 13% of all public-school students, are receiving special education services. Over the last decade, the increase in the number of students receiving special education services has resulted in a need for school principals that have the leadership knowledge and skills to effectively lead programs that will result in the successful achievement for these students (Lynn, 2015). Further, this rise implies that school principals are navigating educational environments in which they are having to be more directly involved with special education teachers, students, and parents (Lynn, 2015). Research suggests that while the responsibility for leadership in special education is being increasingly delegated to school principa...
In this article the implications of a biopsychosocial model of adolescent health promotion for th... more In this article the implications of a biopsychosocial model of adolescent health promotion for the delivery of relevant services in the schools are examined. Adolescent health status is reviewed and is found, despite existing efforts for health promotion and risk reduction, to be in need of substantial improvement. For this to happen, having an early and sustained positive impact on the health trajectory of children is essential; further school-based and school-linked curricular efforts for health promotion are a necessary feature of a successful strategy for adolescent health promotion. In fact, this approach brings to life the social contract between pediatricians and the public to apply the biopsychosocial model at both clinical and societal levels. Curricula serve as the glue that binds diverse health-related concerns and findings emerging from health research into a coordinated, thorough, and detailed strategy and set of actions for school-based and school-linked health promotion efforts. School-linked health programs are consistent with a biopsychosocial perspective, from which the school is best viewed as a health-promoting environment, centered in concepts and practices outlined in and conveyed through the curriculum and associated instructional practices and delivery systems. Many benefits can result from pediatricians and other medical professionals taking a renewed, prominent role in comprehensive school-based and school-linked health promotion efforts, beginning in the early grades, when the trajectory of adolescent health is strongly set into motion.
Equal access to educational opportunity is the philosophical cornerstone of the US public educati... more Equal access to educational opportunity is the philosophical cornerstone of the US public education system. Although significant advances toward realizing this goal have been made over recent decades, educational quality still varies widely across social strata. The agents of this ...
For students and schools, the current policy is to measure success via standardized testing. Yet ... more For students and schools, the current policy is to measure success via standardized testing. Yet the immutable factors of socioeconomic status (SES) and race have, consistently, been implicated in fostering an achievement gap. The current study explores, at the school-level, the impact of these factors on test scores. Percentage of students proficient for Language and Math was analyzed from 452 schools across the state of New Jersey. By high school, 52% of the variance in Language and 59% in Math test scores can be accounted for by SES and racial factors. At this level, a 1% increase in school minority population corresponds to a 0.19 decrease in percent Language proficient and 0.33 decrease for Math. These results have significant implications as they suggest that school-level interventions to improve academic achievement scores will be stymied by socioeconomic and racial factors and efforts to improve the achievement gap via testing have largely measured it. (PsycINFO Database Record
11 In 2000, the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) reported that 94,000 students w... more 11 In 2000, the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) reported that 94,000 students with autism were receiving special education services in public schools. By 2008, that number increased to 336,000 students (NCES, 2010). Currently, over 6.6 million students, or 13% of all public-school students, are receiving special education services. Over the last decade, the increase in the number of students receiving special education services has resulted in a need for school principals that have the leadership knowledge and skills to effectively lead programs that will result in the successful achievement for these students (Lynn, 2015). Further, this rise implies that school principals are navigating educational environments in which they are having to be more directly involved with special education teachers, students, and parents (Lynn, 2015). Research suggests that while the responsibility for leadership in special education is being increasingly delegated to school principa...
In this article the implications of a biopsychosocial model of adolescent health promotion for th... more In this article the implications of a biopsychosocial model of adolescent health promotion for the delivery of relevant services in the schools are examined. Adolescent health status is reviewed and is found, despite existing efforts for health promotion and risk reduction, to be in need of substantial improvement. For this to happen, having an early and sustained positive impact on the health trajectory of children is essential; further school-based and school-linked curricular efforts for health promotion are a necessary feature of a successful strategy for adolescent health promotion. In fact, this approach brings to life the social contract between pediatricians and the public to apply the biopsychosocial model at both clinical and societal levels. Curricula serve as the glue that binds diverse health-related concerns and findings emerging from health research into a coordinated, thorough, and detailed strategy and set of actions for school-based and school-linked health promotion efforts. School-linked health programs are consistent with a biopsychosocial perspective, from which the school is best viewed as a health-promoting environment, centered in concepts and practices outlined in and conveyed through the curriculum and associated instructional practices and delivery systems. Many benefits can result from pediatricians and other medical professionals taking a renewed, prominent role in comprehensive school-based and school-linked health promotion efforts, beginning in the early grades, when the trajectory of adolescent health is strongly set into motion.
Equal access to educational opportunity is the philosophical cornerstone of the US public educati... more Equal access to educational opportunity is the philosophical cornerstone of the US public education system. Although significant advances toward realizing this goal have been made over recent decades, educational quality still varies widely across social strata. The agents of this ...
For students and schools, the current policy is to measure success via standardized testing. Yet ... more For students and schools, the current policy is to measure success via standardized testing. Yet the immutable factors of socioeconomic status (SES) and race have, consistently, been implicated in fostering an achievement gap. The current study explores, at the school-level, the impact of these factors on test scores. Percentage of students proficient for Language and Math was analyzed from 452 schools across the state of New Jersey. By high school, 52% of the variance in Language and 59% in Math test scores can be accounted for by SES and racial factors. At this level, a 1% increase in school minority population corresponds to a 0.19 decrease in percent Language proficient and 0.33 decrease for Math. These results have significant implications as they suggest that school-level interventions to improve academic achievement scores will be stymied by socioeconomic and racial factors and efforts to improve the achievement gap via testing have largely measured it. (PsycINFO Database Record
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