Flint Community Schools

Two studies were conducted to determine if the Reread-Adapt and Answer-Comprehend (RAAC) repeated reading fluency intervention is effective in improving the reading achievement of deaf middle school and high school students. Participants included six middle school students and eight high school students. We found consistently good comprehension during the interventions sessions and consistent improvement in ability to read fluently increasingly more difficult passages in both studies. We also found statistical and practical significance for pre- and post-tests on the Woodcock-Johnson for reading comprehension for the high school students but not for the middle school students and no statistical significance for reading fluency in either study.

In this paper, we examine the relationship between student engagement and social studiesliteracy, exploring the possible connections between students’ reading interests and practices andsocial studies learning. With a sample of 802 secondary students from five schools in one urbancommunity, we use complementary methods to explore survey and interview data. Descriptiveanalysis of survey data indicated that study participants often perceived social studies educationin school as boring and irrelevant. Nevertheless, qualitative analysis of interview data from asubsample revealed that many young people describe using texts to explore dimensions of theiridentities as well as themes of struggle and conflict. We use these findings to illuminateconnections between youths’ concerns and interests and the enduring problems taken up by thesocial sciences, arguing that attention to these connections has the potential to engage studentsand develop their thinking and literacy practices in the social studies.

Environmental and lifestyle changes have been attributed to the recent increase in obesity prevalence in the U.S. as if the US population is homogeneous. We aimed to examine changes in predictors of obesity over the past decade among the U.S. subgroups by gender and income. We examined adults aged 20+ y in NHANES 1988–94 and 1999–2002. Logistic regression was conducted to determine the predictors of obesity in the subgroups, using SAS Callable SUDAAN. Changes in the prevalence over the past decade ranged from −0.2 % (Mexican‐American low‐income men; 23.6 to 23.4%) to 14.2% (Mexican‐American high‐income women; 25.1 to 39.3%) with minimally accounted for by aging U.S. population. These changes were associated with smoking, alcohol intake, leisure‐time activity, age at first menarche, number of live births, perception and behavior toward participant's weight status, number of eating episode, and fat intake. In developing nutrition intervention programs to reduce obesity prevalence, one must consider these predictors specific for certain subgroups in the U.S.

Textbooks not only put forward the content students are to learn but they also advocate what students should be able to do with that content. Textbook developers do not intend to simply convey information, but to encourage behaviors on the part of students. This book is about the structure and pedagogy of textbooks by which they do so. Chapters 2, 3 and 4 examine aspects of structure while this chapter has more direct implications for pedagogy and style.

Abstract ‘Practice Forum’ is intended to provide a forum for social work practitioners to share their practice with others; to describe what they are doing and assess its effectiveness. We extend an invitation to all social work practitioners to submit articles for ‘Practice Forum’ and we look forward to receiving your contribution. Older people with behavioural problems are often referred to social workers in the hope that the social worker will effect change in that behaviour. This paper outlines the factors - psychological, familial, social, environmental, medical and psychiatric - which need to be considered when assessing behavioural problems and describes interventions found to be effective. Key behavioural problems and issues such as aggression, wandering, confusion, inappropriate sexual behaviours, elder abuse, reclusiveness, eating and sleeping disorders and screaming are also described. While assessment and management are potentially overwhelming, management based on sound assessment is possible...

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During inspections of its oldest reservoir, which was constructed in 1907, the city of Flint, Michigan found serious bacteriological, structural, and maintenance problems with the storage facility. An initial decision to abandon the reservoir was changed in favor of rehabilitation. Infiltration problems were corrected by covering the 85,000 square foot area with a nylon‐reinforced rubber membrane. Other repairs are outlined. The total cost of rehabilitation of the reservoir, which is partially below grade, was $250,000.

Abstract The implementation of Reading Instructional Management systems, usually based on the Wisconsin Reading Design list of reading skills or on similar sets of skills, has necessitated the development of systems for providing student groupings at frequent intervals, based upon the skills profiles of students.SING (Scheduling for Instructional Needs Groups), a computer program developed by the author, has been in use since 1973 in Oakland County (Michigan) schools. SING uses optically scanned input to produce skill grouping lists, plus other reports. SING is designed to be used with any set of topics, skills, or objectives.