Public Space Sharing Strategies for Youth Education Building

O13: Positive Education and Flourishing Schools: Strategies for Building Well-Being and Resilience in Students and Staff

Positive education focuses on helping students not only achieve academically, but also to thrive. This workshop will consider what well-being and flourishing is and how well-being science applies to education. Core constructs and positive interventions that can be used with individuals, groups, and organizations to build well-being and resilience will be explored. Specific activities that can b...

Cost Sharing in Education - Public Finance, School and Household Perspectives

O9: Youth Health Promotion Using Virtual Space

Virtual technology can be a useful tool for designing models of healthy urban environments. The resilience and sustainability in any urban environment involves the establishment and maintenance of the health of its citizens. The well-being of youth, the future workforce of every society, is a highly important consideration in the design of cities. Cities are only truly sustainable when the work...

Building a Research Agenda to Improve Education Outcomes for Children and Youth in Foster Care

The contents of this issue of Policy Perspectives are reprinted and adapted from Grappling with the Gaps: Toward a Research Agenda to Meet the Educational Needs of Children and Youth in Foster Care, prepared by BethAnn Berliner, WestEd, and the Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning at WestEd for The Stuart Foundation and the Ready to Succeed Leadership Team. Grappling with the Gaps is ...

Sharing Data for Public Security

Data sharing is a valuable tool for improving security. It allows integrating information from multiple sources to better identify and respond to global security threats. On the other side, sharing of data is limited by privacy and confidentiality. A possible solution is removing or obfuscating part of the data before release (anonymization), and, to this scope, various masking algorithms have ...