The School Discipline Consensus Report


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The School Discipline Consensus Report presents a comprehensive set of consensus-based and field-driven recommendations to improve conditions for learning for all students and educators, better support students with behavioral needs, improve police-schools partnerships, and keep students out of the juvenile justice system for minor offenses. More than 100 advisors representing policymakers, school administrators, teachers, behavioral health professionals, police, court leaders, probation officials, juvenile correctional leaders, parents, and youth from across the country helped develop more than two dozen policies and 60 recommendations to keep more students in productive classrooms and out of court rooms.







Major Savings and Reforms


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Major Savings and Reforms: Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2018 includes both discretionary and mandatory savings proposals that reportedly bring Federal spending under control and return the Federal budget to balance within 10 years. Audience: Congress, civilian businesses and organizations, military and defense agencies (and all governmental agencies), and members of the general public would be interested in this publication and how the President's budgetary proposals could affect the economy and the continuing operation of different civilian organizations and federal agencies. High school, public, and academic libraries will want to include this resource in their Government collections. The entire Fiscal Year (FY) 2018United States Government Budget resources collection can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/budget-economy/federal-budgets-year




Expanding Minds and Opportunities


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Expanding Minds and Opportunities: Leveraging the Power of Afterschool and Summer Learning for Student Success presents an impressive and significant body of work that comprises almost 70 reports, research studies, essays, articles, and commentaries by more than 100 authors representing a range of researchers, educators, policy makers, and professionals in the field, as well as thought leaders and opinion influencers. Collectively, these writings boldly state that there is now a solid base of research and best practices clearly showing that quality afterschool and summer learning programs-including 21st Century Community Learning Centers-make a positive difference for students, families, schools, and communities.




Major Savings and Reforms


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This supplementary document describes major savings and reform proposals included in the 2019 Presiden'ts Budget. It includes both discretionary and mandatory savings proposals.




What Counts as Credible Evidence in Applied Research and Evaluation Practice?


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"What Counts as Credible Evidence in Applied Research and Evaluation Practice? is the first book of its kind to define and place into greater perspective the meaning of evidence for evaluation professionals and applied researchers. Editors Stewart I. Donaldson, Christina A. Christie, and Melvin M. Mark provide observations about the diversity and changing nature of credible evidence, include lessons from their own applied research and evaluation practice, and suggest ways in which practitioners might address the key issues and challenges of collecting credible evidence." "This book is appropriate for a wide range of courses, including Introduction to Evaluation Research, Research Methods, Evaluation Practice, Program Evaluation, Program Development and Evaluation, and evaluation courses in Social Work, Education, Public Health, and Public Policy."--BOOK JACKET.




After School Programs


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Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2014: Health and Human Services public health and research organizations; addressing Social Security Administration's management challenges in a fiscally constrained environment; children's mental health; budget hearing: Department of Health and Human Services


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