The Baby Leadership Learning Collaborative (Baby LLC) initiative is a leadership group committed to bridging relationships across service sectors to promote infant-early childhood mental health and to break the multigenerational cycle of risk often associated with early adversity and trauma. Baby LLC has guided an early relational health focus…

This publication focuses on some of the unique characteristics and challenges concerning the provision of education in prison, including: the emergence of an informal curriculum; language tuition in prison; access to higher education; the availability of library facilities; digital literacy; civic engagement and social (re)integration; and prison…

Social demand for higher education has more than doubled in the past 20 years. However, only one-third of all countries' higher education systems are enrolling more than 50% of the traditional age cohort. Despite major advancements in achieving higher levels of access and participation, inequalities and inequities in higher education persist and…

This paper explores social justice and equity in educational policies and systems in the European Union, and analyzes the significance within. Equity indicators of the European educational systems, "Equity of the European Educational Systems: A set of indicators" declared in 2006, introduces the debates on educational justice issues on…

For too many young people, the transition from high school to college or a career poses significant challenges. In Boston alone, nearly 5,000 16- to 24-year-olds are not in school or employed. This group, known as Opportunity Youth, represents incredible untapped promise and potential. Our latest report takes an in-depth look at what career…

This paper describes the design and outcomes of the University of Houston School-University Research Collaborative, a partnership that uses collaborative research and evaluation as a vehicle for educational improvement. Two of the collaborative's three research agendas are described in detail: (1) the collaborative-level research project,…

Reviews current activities in the fields of both substance abuse and disability, and discusses new efforts to take advantage of advances in electronic communications and systems change approaches. The work of federal agencies in these areas is highlighted, and linkages of these agencies with the private sector are advocated. (JPS)

This article reviews the development of a collaborative interdisciplinary graduate program in services to infants at the University of Illinois. The program's framework includes collaboration across and within departments, in course work within and across disciplines, and in clinical supervision. (DB)

This publication of the National Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education presents members' achievements in developing exemplary programs in the year 2000. Seven programs were identified for their ability to enrich the educational experience of college students. The programs demonstrate the spirit of innovation and resourcefulness and…

Comments on the development of partnerships across schools, colleges, community agencies, and families to support at-risk students, analyzing: barriers to interagency collaboration and interprofessional training and research; changes necessary in higher education to handle these barriers; and implications of lessons learned from existing…

This article describes the Addams/California State University (Fresno) Educational Partnership Project, a model teacher education program designed to provide student teachers with an opportunity to be trained to work with at-risk students. Evaluation by both the student teachers and participating master teachers was overwhelming positive.…

Examines the attitudes toward suicide of trainee teachers from a large metropolitan university. Results indicate that while trainees endorsed the metaphor representing suicide as a cry for help, they also perceived the communicative intent of suicide as being primarily manipulative in nature. Discusses results with reference to training and…

Reports on a study in which five undergraduate education majors mentored six at-risk middle school science students using real-time (synchronous) chat technology. Results of the analysis indicate that the participating middle school science students, over the course of the project, asked more thoughtful questions, remained on task, and perceived…

This annotated bibliography lists books, papers, manuscripts and articles on higher education curricula for integrated service providers in the fields of health education and social service for at risk children, youth, and their families. The original project that produced the bibliography aimed to prepare professionals to understand the need to…

The Young Scholars Program at The Ohio State University is a 6-year pre-collegiate intervention program designed to prepare academically talented, economically disadvantaged minority students for college education. This study describes the success of this effort to reshape the traditional presentation of agriculture. (Author/DKM)