This report calls on the nation—its leaders, its mental health research and service provision
agencies, its schools, its primary care medical systems, its community-based organizations …

School engagement is considered an antidote to several academic problems found in
middle and high school. Previous data highlight the importance of understanding school …

The author examines the construct of emotionality, developmental relations between
cognition and emotion, and neural plasticity and frontal cortical functioning and proposes a …

This book brings together the current thinking and research of two major investigators in the
field of educational effectiveness. After defining educational effectiveness, the authors …

Measures of teacher–student relationship quality (TSRQ), effortful engagement, and
achievement in reading and math were collected once each year for 3 consecutive years …

Publisher Summary This chapter reveals a methodology of assessing basic academic skills
focused on problem solving that has been designed to evaluate a student's skills and …

Humans possess great capacity for behavioral and cultural change, but our ability to
manage change is still limited. This article has two major objectives: first, to sketch a basic …

Preventing Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorders Among Young People: Progress and
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Classroom behaviors that enable academic learning are the focus of this article. A brief
perspective is offered on the development and validation of one enabler—engagement in …

Many students attending public schools exhibit discipline problems such as disruptive
classroom behaviour, vandalism, bullying, and violence. Establishing effective discipline …