@BOOK{NAP author = "Institute of Medicine", title = "Neurological, Psychiatric, and Developmental Disorders: Meeting the Challenge in the Developing World", isbn = "978-0-309-07192-5", abstract = "Brain disorders\u2014neurological, psychiatric, and developmental\u2014now affect at least 250 million people in the developing world, and this number is expected to rise as life expectancy increases. Yet public and private health systems in developing countries have paid relatively little attention to brain disorders. The negative attitudes, prejudice, and stigma that often surround many of these disorders have contributed to this neglect.\nLacking proper diagnosis and treatment, millions of individual lives are lost to disability and death. Such conditions exact both personal and economic costs on families, communities, and nations. The report describes the causes and risk factors associated with brain disorders. It focuses on six representative brain disorders that are prevalent in developing countries: developmental disabilities, epilepsy, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, and stroke. The report makes detailed recommendations of ways to reduce the toll exacted by these six disorders. In broader strokes, the report also proposes six major strategies toward reducing the overall burden of brain disorders in the developing world.\n", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10111/neurological-psychiatric-and-developmental-disorders-meeting-the-challenge-in-the", year = 2001, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", editor = "Robert A. Moffitt and Michele Ver Ploeg", title = "Evaluating Welfare Reform in an Era of Transition", isbn = "978-0-309-07274-8", abstract = "Reform of welfare is one of the nation's most contentious issues, with debate often driven more by politics than by facts and careful analysis. Evaluating Welfare Reform in an Era of Transition identifies the key policy questions for measuring whether our changing social welfare programs are working, reviews the available studies and research, and recommends the most effective ways to answer those questions. \n\nThis book discusses the development of welfare policy, including the landmark 1996 federal law that devolved most of the responsibility for welfare policies and their implementation to the states. A thorough analysis of the available research leads to the identification of gaps in what is currently known about the effects of welfare reform. \n\nEvaluating Welfare Reform in an Era of Transition specifies what-and why-we need to know about the response of individual states to the federal overhaul of welfare and the effects of the many changes in the nation's welfare laws, policies, and practices. \n\nWith a clear approach to a variety of issues, Evaluating Welfare Reform in an Era of Transition will be important to policy makers, welfare administrators, researchers, journalists, and advocates on all sides of the issue.\n", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10020/evaluating-welfare-reform-in-an-era-of-transition", year = 2001, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", editor = "Jeremy Kilpatrick and Jane Swafford and Bradford Findell", title = "Adding It Up: Helping Children Learn Mathematics", isbn = "978-0-309-21895-5", abstract = "Adding It Up explores how students in pre-K through 8th grade learn mathematics and recommends how teaching, curricula, and teacher education should change to improve mathematics learning during these critical years. \nThe committee identifies five interdependent components of mathematical proficiency and describes how students develop this proficiency. With examples and illustrations, the book presents a portrait of mathematics learning:\n\n Research findings on what children know about numbers by the time they arrive in pre-K and the implications for mathematics instruction.\n Details on the processes by which students acquire mathematical proficiency with whole numbers, rational numbers, and integers, as well as beginning algebra, geometry, measurement, and probability and statistics.\n\nThe committee discusses what is known from research about teaching for mathematics proficiency, focusing on the interactions between teachers and students around educational materials and how teachers develop proficiency in teaching mathematics.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/9822/adding-it-up-helping-children-learn-mathematics", year = 2001, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" }