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Direct linkPizzolato, Jane Elizabeth; Brown, Elizabeth Levine; Kanny, Mary Allison – New Directions for Youth Development, 2011
Research in the past decade suggests that a persistent achievement gap between students from low-income minority backgrounds and higher-income white backgrounds may be rooted in theories of student motivation and youth purpose. Yet limited research exists regarding the role of purpose on positive youth development as it pertains to academic…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Intervention, Academic Achievement, High School Students
Adamo, Simonetta M. G.; Aiello, Amalia – International Journal on School Disaffection, 2006
The work the authors are going to describe in this paper is an account of the attempt to re-establish an educational relationship with adolescent drop-outs, for whom school often represented a cage from which they either escaped or were expelled. An experimental school scheme named the Chance Project has been operating in Naples for the past three…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Case Studies, Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Characteristics
