School Notes: Managing Infectious Diseases in School and Child Care Settings

After-school child care programs.

When the public, elected officials, and child advocates focus on the risks and opportunities inherent in after-school hours, discussions quickly hone in on the benefits that after-school programs might offer. This article points out, however, that parents and children consider a wide variety of options for the after-school hours. Children may be with a parent or relative, they may go to lessons...

Arizona Winter School Notes

Self - care Arrangements among School - Aged Children : A Child Care

This study investigates the incidence of self-care arrangements among school-aged children and it examines why some mothers choose this form of child care. The study finds that the incidence of self-care differs by region and family size, and therefore the relevance of aggregate estimates of self-care to the child care policy debate is questioned. Also, mothers' hours of work are found to incre...

Forcing Summer School Lecture Notes

These are the lecture notes for the forcing class in the 2014 UCLA Logic Summer School. They are a revision of the 2013 Summer School notes. The most substantial differences are a new proof of the forcing theorems in section 10.3 and a final section on the consistency of the failure of the axiom of choice. Both write-ups are by Sherwood Hachtman; the former is based on the author’s notes from a...

The Neurotic School Child

become sufficiently evident from the subsequent discussion of the specific types. Most neuroses, as recent investigation has shown, have their ultimate origin, not in adult life, but during childhood; and, as a rule, the neurosis in the grownup person is continuous with the neurosis of the child. During childhood itself a nervous affection of this kind may hinder mental growth and hamper normal...