Children's Report Card, 1999: Measuring Minnesota's Progress for Children and Youth. Summary Report.

Autor/in	Walter, Amy
Institution	Minnesota Planning, St. Paul.
Titel	Children's Report Card, 1999: Measuring Minnesota's Progress for Children and Youth. Summary Report.
Quelle	(1999), (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Quantitative Daten; Academic Achievement; Adolescents; Birth Weight; Child Abuse; Child Neglect; Child Welfare; Children; Counties; Delinquency; Early Parenthood; Elementary Secondary Education; Exercise; Graduation; Infant Mortality; Low Income Groups; Objectives; Poverty; Prenatal Care; Preschool Education; Sexual Abuse; Social Indicators; State Norms; Substance Abuse; Suicide; Tables (Data); Transfer Students; Trend Analysis; Violence; Volunteers; Welfare Recipients; Youth Problems; Minnesota + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulleistung; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Abuse of children; Abuse; Child; Children; Kindesmissbrauch; Missbrauch; Kind; Kinder; Kindesvernachlässigung; Kindeswohl; Kriminalität; Übung; Abschluss; Graduierung; Kindersterblichkeit; Goal definition; Zielsetzung; Armut; Pränatale Versorgung; Pre-school education; Vorschulerziehung; Sexueller Missbrauch; Social indicator; Sozialer Indikator; Drug use; Drug consomption; Drogenkonsum; Selbstmord; Tabelle; Hochschulwechsel; Schulwechsel; Studienortwechsel; Trendanalyse; Gewalt; Freiwilliger; Sozialhilfeempfänger; Sozialhilfeempfängerin
Abstract	Minnesota Planning developed the Children's Report Card in 1994 to help the state and its 87 counties gauge the well-being of Minnesota's children and youth. The report was created as an extension of Minnesota Milestones, a long-range plan for the state and a tool to measure results which was developed by Minnesota Planning in 1992. For the first time, this 1999 report card is organized around 6 of the 19 Milestones goals. The new structure is intended to strengthen the state's ability to track trends. With a focus on county-level data on children and youth, the report card presents data on 6 new indicators and 5 revised indicators. The indicators are: (1) children in poverty; (2) children in families receiving welfare; (3) children from low-income families; (4) school transfers; (5) births by teens; (6) children placed out of home; (7) child abuse and neglect; (8) physical abuse; (9) sexual abuse; (10) family alcohol abuse; (11) prenatal care; (12) low birth-weight babies; (13) on-time immunization; (14) third-grade assessment; (15) basic standards; (16) high school graduation; (17) infant mortality; (18) exercise and physical activity; (19) suicide attempts; (20) smoking and tobacco use; (21) alcohol use; (22) sexual activity; (23) volunteering; (24) fighting; (25) driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs; and (26) juvenile apprehensions. The report card notes positive trends, specifically higher rates of on-time immunization, improved scores on elementary assessment tests, lower rates of infant mortality, fewer suicide attempts, reduced sexual activity, more volunteering, and less fighting. Negative trends noted are a greater proportion of low-income children, increased school transfers, increase in low birth-weight babies, and higher rates of juvenile apprehensions. (EV)
Anmerkungen	Minnesota Planning, 658 Cedar St., St. Paul, MN 55155; Tel: 651-296-3698; Web site: http://www.mnplan.state.mn.us.
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC