Publication Date
In 2025 | 0 |
Since 2024 | 0 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 0 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 3 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 6 |
Descriptor
Disabilities | 11 |
Advocacy | 7 |
Elementary Secondary Education | 5 |
Racial Differences | 5 |
Child Advocacy | 4 |
Child Welfare | 4 |
Children | 4 |
Demography | 4 |
Poverty | 4 |
Violence | 4 |
Well Being | 4 |
More ▼ |
Author
Erickson, W. Lee C. | 2 |
von Schrader, S. | 2 |
Bridges, Catherine, Ed. | 1 |
Burgess, Beth | 1 |
Clark, Caitlin M. | 1 |
Dixon, Gregory, Ed. | 1 |
Finn, Carlen | 1 |
Greytak, Emily A. | 1 |
Kosciw, Joseph G. | 1 |
O'Dea, Colleen | 1 |
Sherman, Arloc | 1 |
More ▼ |
Publication Type
Numerical/Quantitative Data | 11 |
Reports - Descriptive | 5 |
Reports - Evaluative | 2 |
Reports - Research | 2 |
Books | 1 |
Collected Works - Proceedings | 1 |
Opinion Papers | 1 |
Education Level
High Schools | 2 |
Junior High Schools | 2 |
Middle Schools | 2 |
Secondary Education | 2 |
Elementary Secondary Education | 1 |
Audience
Policymakers | 2 |
Location
California | 1 |
California (Los Angeles) | 1 |
California (Oakland) | 1 |
Colorado (Denver) | 1 |
Connecticut | 1 |
District of Columbia | 1 |
Florida | 1 |
Florida (Miami) | 1 |
Indiana (Indianapolis) | 1 |
Maine | 1 |
New Jersey | 1 |
More ▼ |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Individuals with Disabilities… | 1 |
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Executive Office of the President, 2016
Schools should be safe, nurturing, and welcoming environments for all students. Frequently, exclusionary school discipline practices, which remove students from the classroom--even for minor infractions of school rules--through suspension or expulsion, prevent students from participating fully in their education. Suspensions, expulsions, and other…
Descriptors: School Safety, Discipline Policy, Suspension, Expulsion
Kosciw, Joseph G.; Greytak, Emily A.; Zongrone, Adrian D.; Clark, Caitlin M.; Truong, Nhan L. – Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), 2018
The [Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network] GLSEN National School Climate Survey is our flagship report on the school experiences of [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer] LGBTQ youth in schools, including the extent of the challenges that they face at school and the school-based resources that support LGBTQ students' well-being.…
Descriptors: Homosexuality, Sexual Orientation, Sexual Identity, Student Organizations
Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), 2018
The "National School Climate Survey" is the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) flagship report on the school experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth in schools, including the extent of the challenges that they face at school and the school-based resources that support LGBTQ students'…
Descriptors: Homosexuality, Sexual Orientation, Sexual Identity, Student Organizations
Erickson, W. Lee C.; von Schrader, S. – Employment and Disability Institute, 2011
The Annual Disability Status Reports provide policy makers, disability advocates, reporters, and the public with a summary of the most recent demographic and economic statistics on the non-institutionalized population with disabilities. They contain information on the population size and disability prevalence for various demographic…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Health Insurance, Social Integration, Advocacy
UNICEF, 2013
Reports such as this typically begin with a statistic designed to highlight a problem. The girls and boys to whom this edition of "The State of the World's Children" is dedicated are not problems. Rather, each is a sister, brother or friend who has a favourite dish, song or game; a daughter or son with dreams and the desire to fulfil…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Social Attitudes, Social Bias, Equal Education
Erickson, W. Lee C.; von Schrader, S. – Employment and Disability Institute, 2010
The Annual Disability Status Reports provide policy makers, disability advocates, reporters, and the public with a summary of the most recent demographic and economic statistics on the non-institutionalized population with disabilities. They contain information on the population size and disability prevalence for various demographic…
Descriptors: Health Insurance, Advocacy, Community Surveys, Age Differences
Dixon, Gregory, Ed.; Bridges, Catherine, Ed. – 1979
The conference report contains the keynote address and presentation summaries of a June, 1979, conference on the identification, counseling, and training of disabled Hispanic Americans. The conference was sponsored by Partners of the Americas and the Illinois Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and included administrators, professionals, and…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Disabilities, Ethnic Groups, Handicap Identification
O'Dea, Colleen – 1987
This document reprints a series of articles appearing in the Parsippany, New Jersey, "Daily Record" on October 25-30, 1987 and November 9, 1987. The series stresses that the New Jersey special education system has vastly improved from what existed prior to the 1975 Education for All Handicapped Children Act, but that the system still…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Disabilities, Educational Improvement, Educational Practices
Sherman, Arloc – 1994
A quarter of children under age 6 are poor. Poverty has a multiple and cumulative effect on children, regardless of race, family structure, or parental education level. As part of the Children's Defense Fund's Costs of Child Poverty Research Project, this report shows the effects of poverty on children. The Children's Defense Fund's stated mission…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Child Rearing, Child Welfare, Childhood Needs
Maine Children's Alliance, Augusta. – 2002
This KIDS COUNT data book details statewide trends in the well-being of Maine's children. Following a brief overview of the data book and a summary of indicators, state trend data are presented in the areas of: (1) poverty; (2) child and adolescent suicide; (3) public high school dropouts; (4) teen pregnancy; (5) public high school graduates…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Birth Weight, Births to Single Women, Child Advocacy
Finn, Carlen; Burgess, Beth – 2001
This KIDS COUNT data book examines trends in the well-being of Vermont's children. Following an introduction and executive summary, the statistical portrait is presented, based on 18 indicators of child well-being: (1) child poverty; (2) families with children, headed by a single parent; (3) national school lunch program enrollment; (4) children…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Birth Weight, Births to Single Women