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Connect for Kids Weekly--August 28, 2000
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CONNECT FOR KIDS WEEKLY - AUGUST 28, 2000
**Get Informed
Find the basic facts on seven issues pertaining to kids and families --
child care, education, environment, families and work, financial security,
health and safety. Learn ways to get past the campaign rhetoric to decide
who's for kids and who's just kidding and obtain expert analyses of
candidate positions.
http://www.connectforkids.org/content1550/content_list.htm?attrib_id=300
**Get Involved
You'll find tough questions to pose to the candidates, and things you can
do for kids leading up to Election Day. Don't miss the advocate's toolkit
for action!
http://www.connectforkids.org/content1550/content_list.htm?attrib_id=300
BUILDING COMMUNITIES FOR FAMILIES
**Invite Your Legislator to School
On September 15, celebrate "Back to School Day" by inviting your state
legislator back to school. Remember, state legislatures spend a lot of
money on schools and education, so you can help them spend it wisely by
seeing what a real school looks like!
http://www.ncsl.org/public/backsch.htm
BARRIERS TO BENEFITS - IMPROVING THE SYSTEM
**Food Insecurity Still High for Mother-Headed Families
Despite the strength of the American economy in the past few years, food
insecurity and hunger continue to affect millions of American families,
according to this devolution report on four cities from the Manpower
Demonstration Research Corporation. More than 15 percent of mother-headed
families living in highly disadvantaged urban neighborhoods and who had
received or were currently receiving cash welfare benefits reported food
insecurity or hunger.
http://www.mdrc.org/Reports2000/UrbanChange/FoodSecurityHunger.htm
JUST THE FACTS!
**A Back to School Special Report: Growing Pains
Already in some Los Angeles classrooms, there are twice as many children
as there are desks. Some 15,000 schoolchildren must commute each day
because there is no room at the school nearest to their home. According to
U.S. Dept. of Education figures, this may be just the beginning of school
overcrowding as the "baby boom echo" begins to drive up school enrollments
in urban and suburban districts across the country this fall, next year
and for the first quarter of the new century.
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/bbecho00/index.html
**Child Welfare Statistics Improving
State statistics on child abuse and neglect show a decline, with the
incidence of child abuse and neglect has declined in recent years
(according to 1997 data). According to 1998 data, the number of adoptions
of children in foster care has increased, but there are still about
100,000 children in foster care waiting for a permanent adoptive home.
http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/news/cwreport.htm
**Health Status "Snapshot" of Every U.S. County
You may think you know all about your county, but do you? Now you can get
the health data specific to your county -- causes of death, infectious
diseases, teen mothers and more.
http://www.communityhealth.hrsa.gov
TIPS FOR PARENTS, TUTORS AND MENTORS
**Reading Pathfinder
If you are tutoring a child or helping your own child learn to read, you
might find the answers to your questions in the Reading Pathfinder, a
gateway web site organized by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary & Early
Childhood Education (available in Spanish & English).
http://readingpath.org
**How People Learn
The expanded edition of "How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and
School" is now available from the National Academy of Sciences.
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/9853.html
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ABOUT CONNECT FOR KIDS
The Connect for Kids Weekly is an electronic newsletter of Connect for Kids
(http://www.connectforkids.org/), a resource for adults who want to build
better communities for kids and families. The Benton Foundation, our
publisher, works to realize the social benefits made possible by the public
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