This report provides insight into parent opinions of and involvement with child care programs participating in Preschool Makes a Difference. It also offers First 5 Contra Costa new accounts of how programs support the diverse needs of Contra Costa parents.

The authors examine a century of rhetoric on the home/school relation and associated parent involvement. The review investigates how current ideas about this relationship and parent involvement might inhibit the realization of justice, equity, and excellence in education.

This article examines whether availability of in-person professional interpreter services during emergency department visits affects satisfaction of limited English proficient patients and their health providers, using a randomized controlled trial.

The paper consists of a discussion on the relevance of non-income drivers of welfare. This discussion is based on a subjective Bayesian reasoning, where welfare perceptions are subjectively rational decisions of individuals, who are, as author suggests, the ultimate decision-makers in respect of...

A rich economic literature has examined the human capital impacts of disease-eliminating health interventions, such as the rollout of new vaccines. This literature is based on reduced-form approaches which exploit proxies for disease burden, such as mortality, instead of actual infection counts,...

Community-based reverse osmosis (RO) water treatment plants provide an interim solution for producing safe drinking water for the endemic areas of chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology (CKDu) in the rural dry zone of Sri Lanka. RO-treated groundwater diminishes the progression of CKDu;...

Die Geburt eines Kindes und der Eintritt in die Mutterschaft stellt ein signifikantes Lebensereignis für eine Frau dar, das mit wesentlichen biografischen Umbrüchen einhergehen kann. Mutterschaft beinhaltet einen Prozess des Mutterwerdens. Veränderungen und Herausforderungen im Prozess der...

As the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc along Global Value Systems (GVSs) and India's domestic economic crisis deepened, the already struggling Indian Automotive sector incurred huge losses owing to both demand and supply side factors. In fact, the sector has been under significant strain over...

This research analyzes the academic continuity applied from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (DHuCS) of the National University of La Matanza, due to the implementation of mandatory isolation in the context of the COVID - 19 pandemic. The virtualization of the subject History of...

According to the latest findings of the MIUR (Ministry of Education, University and Research), Alunni con cittadinanza non italiana 2004-2005 (MIUR, October 2005), 4.2% of the school population in Italy is made up of non-Italian citizens, with no reference to students who have one Italian parent...