A systematic review of school health policy measurement tools: implementation determinants and outcomes by Gabriella M. McLoughlin, Peg Allen, Callie Walsh-Bailey, Ross C. Brownson

“…Although school health researchers have studied whether schools, districts, or states/provinces are meeting requirements, it is unclear to what extent implementation processes and determinants are assessed. …”
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Cis-acting super-enhancer lncRNAs as biomarkers to early-stage breast cancer by Ali S. Ropri, Rebecca S. DeVaux, Jonah Eng, Sridar V. Chittur, Jason I. Herschkowitz

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Predictors of Participation in the U.S. Department of Agriculture Summer Meal Programs: An Examination of Outreach Strategies and Meal Distribution Methods During COVID-19 by Brooke L. Bennett, PhD, Juliana F.W. Cohen, ScD, Tatiana Andreyeva, PhD, Julia Esposito, BA, Kara Burkholder, MPH, Sandra M. Chafouleas, PhD, Marlene B. Schwartz, PhD

“…The program characteristics examined included the hours open per week, the number of weeks serving meals, the maximum number of meals distributed at one time, and the number of open and closed sites in a school district. Results: Between June 21 and August 20, 2021, a total of 1,188,669 breakfasts and 1,389,347 lunches were served. …”
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Prevalência de dor nas costas e fatores associados em escolares do Ensino Fundamental do município de Teutônia, Rio Grande do Sul Prevalence of back pain and associated factors in... by Matias Noll, Cláudia Tarragô Candotti, Carlos Leandro Tiggemann, Maira Cristina Wolf Schoenell, Adriane Vieira

“…<br>OBJECTIVES: to determine the prevalence of back pain in elementary school students in the Teutônia school district and examine the association of demographic, behavioral and hereditary factors. …”
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Elementary school staff perspectives on the implementation of physical activity approaches in practice: an exploratory sequential mixed methods study by Timothy J. Walker, Christopher D. Pfledderer, Derek W. Craig, Michael C. Robertson, Natalia I. Heredia, John B. Bartholomew

“…We conducted semi-structured qualitative interviews with elementary school staff from a Texas school district and used a directed content analysis to explore physical activity approaches and their implementation. …”
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Michigan Model for HealthTM Learning to Enhance and Adapt for Prevention (Mi-LEAP): protocol of a pilot randomized trial comparing Enhanced Replicating Effective Programs versus st... by Andria B. Eisman, Lawrence A. Palinkas, Christine Koffkey, Todd I. Herrenkohl, Umaima Abbasi, Judy Fridline, Leslie Lundahl, Amy M. Kilbourne

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Spatial Patterns of Housing Prices and Multi-Scale Effects of Its Influencing Factors: A Case Study on the Central City of Fuzhou by Lin Zhen, Wang Wulin, Gong Jiao, Lin Tong

“…The spatial pattern is a multi-center urban hierarchy system of "one main center and two sub-centers," and the neighborhoods with high housing prices show the characteristics of "a tendency to gather around the Minjiang River, school district, shopping malls, hospitals and ecological resources." 2) The factors influencing housing prices have distinct spatially heterogeneous and exclusive bandwidths. …”
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Negative Impacts of Pandemic Induced At-Home Remote Learning Can Be Mitigated by Parental Involvement by Mathieu Guillaume, Elizabeth Y. Toomarian, Elizabeth Y. Toomarian, Amandine Van Rinsveld, Arielle Baskin-Sommers, Anthony Steven Dick, Gayathri J. Dowling, Marybel Robledo Gonzalez, Lindsey Hasak, Krista M. Lisdahl, Andrew T. Marshall, Quynh Trang H. Nguyen, William E. Pelham, Cha Cha Pillai, Cha Cha Pillai, Chandni Sheth, Angie M. Wang, Susan F. Tapert, Bruce D. McCandliss

“…Format changes in U.S. schooling in response to the COVID-19 pandemic varied by month and by school district, ranging from exclusively home-based to full in-person learning. …”
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Factores asociados a la compresión lectora en estudiantes de noveno grado de Barranquilla by Mónica Paola Franco Montenegro, Rosana Cárdenas Rodríguez, Elia Rebeca Santrich Sánchez

“…Abstract This article is the result of research and its main work objective is to determine the incidence of the factors associated with the development of Reading Comprehension for ninth grade students of School District Jesús Maestro Fe y Alegría of Barranquilla. …”
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Investigating the relationship between domestic violence with substance abuse and suicide resilience in mothers with disabled children by Fateme Mohammadi, Majid Barati, Seyed Reza Borzou, Elahe Ezati, Khadejeh Mohammadi, Zahra Mohammadi, Salman Khazaei, Salman Khazaei, Seyedeh Zahra Masoumi

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The Influence of Emotional Intelligence, Spiritual Intelligence and Family Environment Toward Academic Stress Among Students in Outskirt Area of Tawau in Sabah by Andang Andaiyani Binti Ahmad, Abdul Said Bin Ambotang

“…This study aimed to identify the relationship and influence of Emotional Intelligence, Spiritual Intelligence and Family Environment on the Academic Stress of High School Students in outskirt area of Tawau School District in Sabah. A total of 398 respondents from 21 out schools in outskirt area of Tawau Sabah were involved in this study. …”
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Using the R = MC2 heuristic to understand barriers to and facilitators of implementing school-based physical activity opportunities: a qualitative study by Derek W. Craig, Timothy J. Walker, Paula Cuccaro, Shreela V. Sharma, Natalia I. Heredia, Michael C. Robertson, Maria E. Fernandez

“…Methods We analyzed interview data from 15 elementary school staff (principals, assistant principals, physical education teachers, and classroom teachers) from a school district in Texas. We focused on factors related to adopting, implementing, and sustaining a variety of school-based physical activity opportunities. …”
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Physical activity and academic achievement: an analysis of potential student- and school-level moderators by Hannah K. Behringer, Emilie R. Saksvig, Peter J. Boedeker, Paul N. Elish, Christi M. Kay, Hannah G. Calvert, Adria M. Meyer, Julie A. Gazmararian

“…Methods In a large, diverse metropolitan public school district in Georgia, 4,936 students in Grade 4 were recruited from 40 elementary schools. …”
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Early Adolescents' Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Changes in Their Well-Being by Anne Gadermann, Kimberly Thomson, Randip Gill, Kimberly A. Schonert-Reichl, Monique Gagné Petteni, Martin Guhn, Michael T. Warren, Eva Oberle

“…The objectives of this study were (i) to provide an overview on early adolescents' experiences and social-emotional well-being during the pandemic; and (ii) to examine whether changes in social experiences as well as feeling safe from getting COVID-19 at school were associated with changes in well-being outcomes over the course of a year.MethodsA sample of n = 1,755 students from a large public school district self-reported on their life satisfaction, optimism, and symptoms of sadness across two time points: First, in their Grade 7 year (pre-pandemic; January to March, 2020) and then 1 year later in their Grade 8 year (during the pandemic; January to March, 2021). …”
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Tissue Factor-Targeted “O2-Evolving” Nanoparticles for Photodynamic Therapy in Malignant Lymphoma by Ziying Li, Ziying Li, Yanxue Yin, Yanxue Yin, Weiwei Jin, Bo Zhang, Bo Zhang, Bo Zhang, Han Yan, Han Yan, Heng Mei, Heng Mei, Huafang Wang, Huafang Wang, Tao Guo, Tao Guo, Wei Shi, Wei Shi, Yu Hu, Yu Hu

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The longitudinal association between objectively-measured school-day physical activity and academic achievement in US elementary school students by Paul N. Elish, Cassandra S. Bryan, Peter J. Boedeker, Hannah G. Calvert, Christi M. Kay, Adria M. Meyer, Julie A. Gazmararian

“…Methods In a diverse suburban public school district, 4936 Grade 4 students were recruited in 40 elementary schools. …”
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An agricultural community’s perspectives on COVID-19 testing to support safe school reopening by Magaly Ramirez, Sonia Bishop, Genoveva Ibarra, Parth Shah, Miriana C. Duran, Hwa Young Chae, Laurie Hassell, Lorenzo Garza, Sandra Linde, Michelle M. Garrison, Paul K. Drain, Paul K. Drain, Linda K. Ko, Linda K. Ko

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Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in K-12 Schools, British Columbia, Canada April to June 2021 by Alexandra Choi, Louise C. Mâsse, Samantha Bardwell, Iryna Kayda, Yanjie Zhao, Yang Xin Zi Xu, Ani Markarian, Daniel Coombs, Adrienne Macdonald, Allison W. Watts, Nalin Dhillon, Michael Irvine, Collette O’Reilly, Pascal M. Lavoie, David M. Goldfarb

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Cost effectiveness of preemptive school closures to mitigate pandemic influenza outbreaks of differing severity in the United States by Lori R. Dauelsberg, Brian Maskery, Heesoo Joo, Timothy C. Germann, Sara Y. Del Valle, Amra Uzicanin

“…We found that 2-week school-by-school PSCs had the lowest cost per discounted life-year gained compared to county-wide or school district–wide closures for both the national and Chicago regional-level analyses of all pandemics. …”
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Essays on Employment and Human Capital by Wang, Sean Yixiang

“…The third chapter directly estimates a theoretically motivated measure of schools' competitive pressures using centralized assignment data from a large urban school district’s deferred-acceptance mechanism. I find that competitive pressure within the district is dispersed, and most of the variation in competition is unexplained by concentration. …”
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