Behavior problems, academic skill delays and school failure among school-aged children in foster care: their relationship to placement characteristics

Article Abstract:

School-aged children in foster care have a high percentage of school failure. Behavior problems showed a significant relationship to child suspension and/or expulsion from school, but not with grade retention or academic delays.

Psychological aspects, Research, Failure (Psychology), Foster home care

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Children at risk: effects of a four-year head start transition program on special education identification

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This article evaluates the effectiveness of a Head Start program in which high risk children are provided with educational transition assistance. The authors, comparing children who were involved in the program from kindergarten until the third grade with children who did not receive the same services, maintain Head Start was successful in decreasing special education placement.

Evaluation, Special education, Problem children, United States. Head Start programs

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Head Start children at third grade: preliminary special education identification and placement of children with emotional, learning, and related disabilities

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The authors examine the problem of identifying children with emotional, behavioral, and learning disabilities from Head Start program special education identification data gathered during the child's third grade of school.

Statistics, Learning disabled, Learning disabled persons, United States. Administration for Children and Families. Head Start Bureau

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