Resource on Trends for Children

10/12/2005

Resource on Trends for Children

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
Aesop

ExchangeEveryDay readers will want to check out the recent research addressed by Child Trends, a national, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization in Washington, DC (www.childtrends.org). The group has released its Child Trends Releases Summer 2005 Edition of The Child Indicator. Highlights are listed below:

The most recent edition of The Child Indicator (Summer 2005, Vol. 5, Issue 1), published by Child Trends, communicates major developments and new resources within each sector of the child and youth indicators field. Featured in this issue:

-- Surveys on middle childhood and early adolescence.

-- New online data tools that allow easy access to educational indicators.

-- Rockefeller Bill: more funding for state surveys and child indicators.

-- On the Frontier of Adulthood: Theory, Research, and Public Policy, edited by Settersten, Furstenberg, and Rumbaut.

-- Measuring and monitoring children's well-being: a decade of international progress.

-- Teaching in the classroom with child indicators.

-- Recently released reports, including School Readiness: Closing Racial and Ethnic Gaps, The Condition of Education 2005, and Child Maltreatment 2003.

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