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Download full textMiller, Jan; Vick, Courtney – Alabama Journal of Educational Leadership, 2022
The purpose of this study was to determine if participation in the Community Action Poverty Simulation (CAPS) had an impact on rural educator candidates' and practicing rural educators' attitudes toward poverty (ATP). The group of rural educator candidates are students pursuing an undergraduate degree in education at a small, rural university in…
Descriptors: Community Action, Poverty, Simulation, Rural Education
Robert Gonzalez; Sarah Komisarow – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2020
In this paper we study the impact on student absenteeism of a large school-based community crime monitoring program that employed local community members to monitor and report crime on designated city blocks during students' travel to and from school. We find that the program resulted in a 0.78 percentage point reduction in the school-level…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Elementary School Students, School Violence, Crime
Direct linkBlevins, Brooke; LeCompte, Karon N.; Riggers-Piehl, Tiffani; Scholten, Nate; Magill, Kevin R. – Social Studies, 2021
This study present findings related to students' community and political engagement and activism after participation in an action civics institute. The institute, iEngage, is a weeklong summer experience for rising fifth through rising ninth graders that utilizes the action civics inquiry cycle to foster civic skills and cultivate participation…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Summer Programs, Civics, Political Attitudes
Ferreira, José Carlos; Vasconcelos, Lia; Monteiro, Renato; Silva, Flávia Zurga; Duarte, Cláudio Macedo; Ferreira, Filipa – Education Sciences, 2021
Ambassadors for Biodiversity (EmBio) is an ocean literacy research project that contributes to the improvement of literacy on marine and coastal biodiversity, namely encompassing the areas covered by the Natura 2000 Network, by promoting coastal and oceanic resources conservation and natural and cultural values preservation of the Portuguese…
Descriptors: Oceanography, Marine Biology, Biodiversity, Conservation (Environment)
Leckey, Erin H.; Littrell, Megan K.; Okochi, Christine; González-Bascó, Ián; Gold, Anne; Rosales-Collins, Samantha – Journal of Environmental Education, 2021
How can youth become leaders in their communities' resilience efforts? The Lentes en Cambio Climático (LECC) filmmaking program aimed to empower students to investigate how a changing climate affects their lives and use their own findings to inspire local resilience. Secondary students in LECC created films that explore the experiences of…
Descriptors: Local Issues, Place Based Education, Environmental Education, Informal Education
Andolina, Molly W.; Conklin, Hilary G. – American Educational Research Journal, 2020
This research examines the factors that shape high school students' experiences with an action civics program--"Project Soapbox"--that fosters democratic and social-emotional learning. Drawing on pre- and postsurveys with 204 students, classroom observations, teacher interviews, student work samples, and student focus group interviews,…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Civics, Citizenship Education
