Hillen is one of nine elmhurst memorial Healthcare (emHc) nurses who are contracted with elmhurst community unit School district 205. She is part of emHc’s outside education department, but her office is in the school district building. Hillen is responsible for emerson elementary School, Hawthorne elementary School and Sandburg middle School, along with overseeing half of the district’s K-12 s...

PURPOSE In this article, the author presents a conceptual framework for intervention at school-age levels reflecting upon a number of aspects raised by Kamhi (2014) in the lead article of this forum. The focus is on the persistence of traditional practices, components of language intervention, and prioritizing goals for students with language learning difficulties. Weaving together learning and...

Comprehensive School Health (CSH) is an internationally recognized framework that moves beyond the individual to holistically address school health, leading to the development of health-enhancing behaviors while also improving educational outcomes. Previous research has suggested that principal support for CSH implementation is essential, but this role has yet to be explored. Therefore, the pur...

The Convention on the Rights of the Child detailed an international imperative to fulfilling, protecting, and respecting the rights of every child. In particular, the Convention set out a clear mandate for guaranteeing opportunities for children to be heard on all matters of concern to them. The attainment of these goals involves respecting and valuing children as active participants in the edu...

This paper attempted to illuminate the importance of social competence for elementary school teacher in rural mountain environment. The author analyzes the essential features, social and pedagogical challenges in rural schools, sensible changes characteristic of the modern village. Special attention is paid to the rural mountain school as a center of educational and social activities, its pecul...

This study was conducted in the rural Indian high schools K.R .S. High School and Srirangapatna High School. Two control groups and one experimental group were selected by matching for this research. The experimental group consisted of 41 students from K.R.S. High School, control group Cl consisted of 40 students from the same high school as the experimental group, while control group C2 consis...

In " Reframing School Dropout as a Public Health Issue " (1), Freudenberg and Ruglis make a succinct, yet compelling , case. Arguably, reducing racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in educational achievement (including disparities related to graduating from high school by age 18 years) is key to reducing not only disparities in adult incarceration and socioeconomic position but also to...

Several review and epidemiological studies have been conducted over recent years to inform behavior analysts of functional analysis outcomes. None to date have closely examined demographic and clinical data for functional analyses conducted exclusively in public school settings. The current paper presents a data-based summary of 90 functional analyses conducted in public school settings from 20...

when studying jurisprudential sources of shafeism, one may see many times statements like ‘ghala fi al-qadim’ and ‘ghala fi al-jadid’ which make researchers wonder whether imam shafi,i has really established two schools of thought! this claim does not seem to be correct and even shafi,i scholars have noticed it and allocated their phd theses to examine and prove their views regarding this matte...