BACKGROUND Little is known regarding the association between numbers of cardiovascular (CV) risk factors and the level of each risk factor in elementary school children based on a longitudinal study. METHODS AND RESULTS A descriptive study of 319 obese children aged 6-11 years who participated in a screening program for comorbidity of obesity between 2003 and 2005, and who participated in con...

OBJECTIVE The goal was to examine whether children who screen positive for social-emotional/behavioral problems at 12 to 36 months of age are at elevated risk for social-emotional/behavioral problems in early elementary school. METHODS The sample studied (N = 1004) comprised an ethnically (33.3% minority) and socioeconomically (17.8% living in poverty and 11.3% living in borderline poverty) d...

Although the twentieth century has witnessed two major waves ofgrade reorganization in American public. schools, little empirical evidence exists pertaining to the effects of grade span the range of grades making up schools on academic achievement. In the present study, a series of production functions was employed to examine the influence ofgrade span, and several control variables, on eighth-...

This presentation reports on the goals and preliminary outcomes of the Child-Parent Centers (CPC) Expansion Project, which is a PreK to 3 rd grade school reform model aimed at improving the shortand long-term outcomes of participating children and families. The model provides continuous education and family support services to schools serving a large percentage of lowincome children. The model ...

The United States Commissioner of Education called a conference recently in Chicago, of persons particularly interested in the field of elementary education, to consider what changes were necessary and practicable in order to improve the elementary school system of the country for the purpose of meeting after-war conditions in a satisfactory and scientific manner. At every point, it seems to me...

PURPOSE Low socioeconomic status is an important risk factor for child psychiatric problems. Low socioeconomic status is also associated with psychiatric problems later in life. We investigated the effects of group bullying on clinical characteristics and psychopathology in elementary school students using child-welfare facilities. METHODS Three hundred and fifty-eight elementary school stude...

OBJECTIVE To compare the efficacy and feasibility of teleaudiometry with that of sweep audiometry in elementary school children, using pure-tone audiometry as the gold standard. METHODS A total of 243 students with a mean age of 8.3 years participated in the study. Of these, 118 were boys, and 125 were girls. The following procedures were performed: teleaudiometry screening with software that...