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<div align="center"><font size=6>Graduate School of Education<br>
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Invites you to attend a colloquium by<br>
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<font size=6><b>Cassandra Guarino, Ph.D.<br>
</b>Economist<br>
<i>RAND, Santa Monica<br>
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<font size=6><b>“The Impact of Poor Health on the Mathematics Achievement
of Young Children</i>”<br>
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</i>Monday, March 5, 2007<br>
1:30-2:30 p.m.<br>
Sproul Hall 1215<br>
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<i>Current accountability policies, such as No Child Left Behind, place
great emphasis on academic performance measured by test scores.
Factors influencing test scoreshealth conditions among thesemust be
understood to create effective policies. The effect of health
impairments has been relatively under-researched, however, due to the
paucity of data that include detailed measures of both health and school
performance over time. This study examines the impact of low birth
weight and health conditions, such as vision, speech, hearing, learning
disabilities, and obesity on the mathematics achievement of young
children. The study uses the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study –
Kindergarten Class of 1998-99, a nationally representative sample of
kindergartners who are followed through fifth grade, to assess health
effects. Various models are compared with a baseline specification
to check the validity of different modeling assumptions and to assess the
ability of families, teachers, and schools to mitigate negative health
effects. <br>
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<font face="Garamond" size=4 color="#000080"><b>Leslie Bushong<br>
</b></font><font color="#000080">Staff Director<br>
California Teach-Science/Mathematics Initiative (CaTEACH-SMI) <br>
1104 Pierce Hall<br>
University of California, Riverside<br>
voice: (951) 827-4970<br>
fax: (951) 827-4971<br>
website:
<a href="http://smi.ucr.edu/" eudora="autourl">http://smi.ucr.edu<br><br>
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