Francine H Jacobs
Biographic Data
| ID | 132693 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francine H Jacobs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francine H |
| FAMILY NAME | Jacobs |
| SIGNATURE | JACOBS F H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tufts University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Juvenile Justice
Child and Family Program Evaluation
The demand for program evaluation has grown so dramatically over the past 20 years that virtually all programs-big and small, well-funded and grassroots, new and veteran-are now expected to undertake it. The current popularity of "outcomes-based accountability" provides a backdrop for this "cautionary tale" about the uses and misuses of evaluation, and the necessity to match evaluations more precisely to the characteristics of the programs themse…
Current Child and Family Policy in the United States
Defining a Social Problem
Evaluating Family Programs
Chronically Ill children in school
Attention to the specific educational needs of chronically ill children is a relatively recent development in American education, beginning in a limited fashion at the turn of the century. Prior to that time, high mortality rates, societal attitudes towards the chronically ill or delicate child, and the view of public schooling as a privilege rather than a right, kept all but the mildly impaired out of the public system. Reversals in these trends…
Chronically Ill children in school
Attention to the specific educational needs of chronically ill children is a relatively recent development in American education, beginning in a limited fashion at the turn of the century. Prior to that time, high mortality rates, societal attitudes towards the chronically ill or delicate child, and the view of public schooling as a privilege rather than a right, kept all but the mildly impaired out of the public system. Reversals in these trends…
Evaluating Family Programs
Defining a Social Problem
Current Child and Family Policy in the United States
Child and Family Program Evaluation
The demand for program evaluation has grown so dramatically over the past 20 years that virtually all programs-big and small, well-funded and grassroots, new and veteran-are now expected to undertake it. The current popularity of "outcomes-based accountability" provides a backdrop for this "cautionary tale" about the uses and misuses of evaluation, and the necessity to match evaluations more precisely to the characteristics of the programs themse…
Juvenile Justice
Psychology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (2 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Medicine (2 works)