Competing Models of Schools and Communities: The Struggle To Reframe and Reinvent Their Relationships. Publication Series No. 8.
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Key Issues in Developing School-Linked, Integrated Services
This article identifies several nuts-and-bolts issues involved in planning and implementing school-linked services. Effective planning must include discussion of implementation details and is possible only if a policy-minded team of coequals works toward the same goals. No one agency should "own" the process. In addition to education, health, and social services agency leaders, the team should include representatives of community and neighborhood groups, line workers, and parents. This team must carefully address questions of targeting, governance, financing, evaluation, and information sharing. In addition, team members must consider operational issues such as ensuring line worker buy-in and establishing an effective case management staffing plan that is acceptable to existing staff. The article discusses different strategies that community teams can use to address each of these issues. he development of school-linked services has progressed to a point where we can begin to distill the most effective approaches to planning and implementing these programs. In this journal issue the article by Levy and Shepardson discusses key elements of these programs. This article identifies some of the nuts-and-bolts issues that must be addressed when establishing school-linked service programs. These include planning, targeting, governance, information systems, and staffing.
Compressive strength comparison and crystal morphology of dental cements.
Three dental cements were aged as cylindrical specimens in distilled water for periods up to 2 years. Zinc phosphate cement showed no change in compressive strength over the aging time, while glass ionomer and polycarboxylate cements increased in compressive strength. Energy dispersive spectroscopy of the crystalline surface of the zinc phosphate cement samples indicated a wide range of crystalline structures and compositions.