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Harris, Helen Wilson; Zipperlen, Marlene – Administrative Issues Journal: Education, Practice, and Research, 2011
Evidence-based practice and evidence-informed practice are not just buzzwords in education. It is essential that administrators encourage both the development and the application of new knowledge in the field. This study of 1755 elementary age children in Central Texas indicates a positive association between the experience of childhood loss and…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Elementary School Students, Correlation, Grief
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Becker, Heather; Seay, Penny; Morrison, Janet – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2009
While many researchers have studied the etiology of autism, possible racial/ethnic differences in prevalence of the autism diagnosis have received much less attention. Using the Texas Education Agency Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS) data set for 2006, we examined the prevalence of an educational diagnosis of autism among…
Descriptors: Autism, Incidence, Racial Differences, Ethnic Groups
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Roberts, Robert E.; Roberts, Catherine Ramsay; Xing, Yun – Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2006
Objective: The authors present prevalence data for adolescents in a large metropolitan area and examine the association of DSM-IV diagnoses with functional impairment and selected demographic correlates among European Americans (EA), African Americans (AA), and Mexican (MA) Americans. Method: The authors sampled 4,175 youths ages 11 to 17 years…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Incidence, Health Facilities, Social Status