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Report from National Summit on Latino Education
The National Association of Latino Elected & Appointed Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund held its Fourth Annual National Summit on the State of Latino Education & Legislative Hearing on Pre-K and the Early Grades (PreK-3rd) on September 23, 2008.
The summit was sponsored by the Foundation for Child Development, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Pre-K Now, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and State Farm Insurance Companies.
The event was covered in "Education Experts, Hispanic Elected Officials Discuss Strengthening Educational Pipeline," by Diverse Issues in Higher Education on September 25, 2008.
[Last updated: September 26, 2008]An Ounce of Prevention
Co-sponsored by Representative Mike Castle (R-DE) and Representative Bobby Scott (D-VA), The New America Foundation and the Foundation for Child Development hosted "An Ounce of Prevention: How Early Efforts for Education, Health and Safety Make a Critical Difference in the Well-Being of Children," on Tuesday, September 9, 2008, from 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., at the Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2168, Capitol Hill.
Using the 2008 FCD Child Well-Being Index (CWI), the forum focused on current trends affecting the status of children and preventative strategies for enhancing child well-being.
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[Last updated: September 11, 2008]Child Well-Being Index (CWI) 2008 Report
The quality of life of American children has been stalled since 2002, according to the Foundation for Child Development (FCD) 2008 Child Well-Being Index (CWI), an annual comprehensive measure of how children are faring in the United States. The CWI calculates the overall status of American children for every year since 1975, and finds less than a three percent improvement for kids over the past generation.
In addition to noting children's stalled improvement since 2002, the 2008 CWI also compares the well-being of teenagers in the first part of this decade (2003-2005) with the well-being of teenagers in the early years of the study (1975-1977). The teenagers of 1975-1977 are likely to include many who are now the parents of teenagers.
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