Events
Explore these questions with world leaders, diplomats, military officials, journalists, and industry experts at Perry World House. Also featuring the inaugural Penn Biden Leaders Dialogue, co-hosted with the Penn Biden Center. Registration will open on Tuesday September 5th.
Using district level data that cover 75 percent of the black public school population, we characterize the extent to which black white gaps in achievement, rates of school disciplinary policy, Advanced Placement (AP) course taking and classification into special education and Gifted and Talented courses are linked across school districts in the United States. We show that gaps in each of these domains are large in magnitude and correlated; districts with large gaps in one area are likely to have large gaps in other areas. Socioeconomic inequality and segregation are strikingly consistent predictors of achievement, discipline, AP course taking and classification gaps. While socioeconomic and segregation variables consistently predict achievement and non-achievement gaps, there is much more unexplained variance for non-achievement outcomes; depending on the outcome, socioeconomic and segregation variables explain between 1.5 to 3 times as much of the variation in achievement gaps as they do for the other educational outcomes. These findings reveal that underlying and systemic patterns of inequality drive inequalities across multiple educational outcomes; however, unobserved discretionary policies at the district and school levels are more influential for gaps in non-achievement outcomes.
The National Research Summit on Care, Services and Supports for Persons with Dementia and Their Caregivers is a two-day meeting of researchers, service providers, persons with dementia, family caregivers, and other stakeholder groups. It will be held October 16-17, 2017, at the Natcher Building’s Ruth L. Kirschstein Auditorium of the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland. It is free and open to the public. NIA’s Division of Behavioral and Social Research (NIA/DBSR) would like to encourage you to attend this Research Summit. The meeting is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health through private sector support.
Meeting registration is open. Please visit https://aspe.hhs.gov/national-research-summit-care-services-and-supports-persons-dementia-and-their-caregivers-registration to register soon, as space is limited.
The Summit is intended to identify what we know now and what we still need to learn in order to accelerate the development, evaluation, translation, implementation, and scaling up of comprehensive care, services, and supports for persons with dementia, families, and other caregivers. The Summit is focused on research that is needed to improve quality of person-and family-centered care and outcomes across care settings, including quality of life and the lived experience of persons with dementia and their caregivers.
Please note: If you cannot attend the Summit in-person, the event will be live-streamed. If you prefer to watch the videocast, please register and choose the “videocast” option. A link and additional details will be sent to you approximately one-week prior to the event.
MEETING INFORMATION:
Event: National Research Summit on Care, Services and Supports for Persons with Dementia and Their Caregivers
Location:
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
William H. Natcher Building (#45)
45 Center Drive
Bethesda, MD 20892
Monday, October 16, 2017
Meeting check in: 7:00AM - 8:00AM
Meeting: 8:00AM – 4:45PM
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Meeting check in: 7:00AM - 7:55AM
Meeting: 7:55AM – 5:00PM
All meeting times are Eastern Standard Time. Times are subject to change.
More information about the Summit is available at: https://aspe.hhs.gov/national-research-summit-care-services-and-supports-persons-dementia-and-their-caregivers.
Contact
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Philadelphia, PA 19104-6298
Fax: 215-898-2124
