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Direct linkWinter, Suzanne M. – Childhood Education, 2009
Childhood obesity is epidemic in the United States and other industrialized countries across the globe. This trend is alarming, because childhood obesity is associated with the early onset of serious health problems, including Type II diabetes, cardiovascular disease, orthopedic problems, behavioral disorders, and asthma. Mounting evidence also…
Descriptors: Obesity, Prevention, Economically Disadvantaged, Parenting Styles
Download full textFlaxman, Erwin; Ascher, Carol – 1992
This descriptive study examines the operation of youth mentoring programs in New York City. In particular, the study maps the experiences of developing and operating youth mentoring programs as articulated by the organizers or directors of 21 such programs; reviews and analyzes the research and descriptions of mentoring programs nationally to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Children, Disadvantaged Youth
Peer reviewedAlex-Assensoh, Yvette – Urban Affairs Review, 1995
Demonstrates that in two areas of concentrated poverty in Columbus (Ohio), so-called underclass behaviors are not associated with race. A study of neighborhood poverty and political participation in those areas is used to show that whites and African Americans exhibit statistically indistinguishable and substantively similar levels of such…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Antisocial Behavior, Blacks, Crime
Zingher, Gary – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1998
Presents books to be used in a thematic unit focusing on readers as heroes and heroines in which characters become readers despite being poor, homeless, deaf, visually impaired, dyslexic, or having parents who are illiterate or who read and write in another language. Describes student activities: research, art, writing, family reading, letter…
Descriptors: Art, Bibliographies, Books, Childrens Literature
Walker, Sylvia; Kaur, Satwant – 1991
The purpose of the Bridges to Leadership 2000 program is to implement a service delivery model for economically disadvantaged and minority youth with disabilities, from ages 11 to 21. The program is conducted with the help of the Howard University Research and Training Center for Access to Rehabilitation and Economic Opportunity, and is being…
Descriptors: Black Youth, Career Development, Disabilities, Economically Disadvantaged
Project Link Educational Center, Newark, NJ. – 1983
A program in career linkages was conducted at Project Link Educational Center to bring the students to greater self-awareness in terms of their personal qualities, abilities, interests, and determinations and to express and examine these in relation to their occupational interests and goals. (Project Link Educational Center is a tuition-free,…
Descriptors: Black Students, Career Choice, Career Development, Career Education
