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Highlights Nov 21-27, 2011
Nov 23 2011, 9:24 PM EST | Post edited: Nov 24 2011, 7:37 PM EST
The journals covered this week include those focused on social work, child protection, sustainable development, equity, place, human rights, low income countries and the newsletters of UN agencies. Do you find this valuable?    
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1. Going Beyond RCT's to True Understanding
Jan 3 2012, 9:26 AM EST | Post edited: Jan 3 2012, 9:26 AM EST
Several articles in Issue #6, 2011 of Research on Social Work Practice help us to understand the limitations to RCT's and various alternative research methods. These include a better understanding of the interaction between the local context and program outcomes, the influence of mediators and moderators in the implementation process, identifying and predicting causal pathways and more. Go to: http://rsw.sagepub.com/content/21/6.toc Do you find this valuable?    
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2. Historical View of Young Children as a risk to adults, not "at risk"
Jan 3 2012, 9:32 AM EST | Post edited: Jan 3 2012, 9:32 AM EST
This article investigates interventions in the gutter play of British working class children in the first decade of the 20th century through their re-location within Free Kindergartens. In contemporary literature, the street child was viewed through a binary lens, as both ‘at risk’ and ‘as risk’, reflecting wider societal discourses in a period of rapidly developing social policy.This was a primary reason for the introduction of public schooling and explains why schools must continue the tradition of exercising social control on children. Go to: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1099-0860.2010.00293.x/abstract Do you find this valuable?    
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3. Green schools, student achievement and teacher satisfaction
Jan 3 2012, 9:54 AM EST | Post edited: Jan 3 2012, 9:54 AM EST
A Toronto, Canada study comparing student performance, teacher satisfaction in retro-fitted schools vs regular schools found that there were important but not statistically significant differences favouring green schools over regular schools. Go to: http://ibe.sagepub.com/content/20/5/511.abstract Do you find this valuable?