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Title: Developing an Index of Educational Risk from Health and Social Characteristics Known at Birth
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1. Nord, Christine Winquis
Zill, Nicholas
Prince, Cynthia
Clarke, Sally
Developing an Index of Educational Risk from Health and Social Characteristics Known at Birth
Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 71, 2 (Winter 1994): 167-187.
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: New York Academy of Medicine
Keyword(s): Alcohol Use; Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Child Development; Child Health; Childhood Education, Early; Children, Health Care; Children, Well-Being; Cigarette Use (see Smoking); Education Indicators; Health Factors; Marital Status; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); Pre/post Natal Health Care; Pregnancy and Pregnancy Outcomes; School Entry/Readiness; Substance Use

The goal of the work described in this report was to develop a new child health index that could be reported annually by the National Education Goals Panel for each of the 50 States, as well as for local areas. This index would serve as an indicator of health conditions at birth that relate to children's readiness to learn upon school entry. The new standard birth certificate adopted by nearly all states in 1989 contains more than a dozen items of information that are potentially useful for this purpose. The availability of these data make it possible to sum across the individual health factors to form a composite index made up of factors with demonstrated relevance to later educational performance for all children born in a given year in a given geographical area.
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Nord, Christine Winquis, Nicholas Zill, Cynthia Prince and Sally Clarke. "Developing an Index of Educational Risk from Health and Social Characteristics Known at Birth." Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 71, 2 (Winter 1994): 167-187.