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Download full textAceves, Lorena; Crowley, Daniel Max; Rincon, Brenda; Bravo, Diamond Y. – Society for Research in Child Development, 2022
The main goal of this social policy report is to propose a holistic approach for promoting developmental success among Latinx children and youth. This report highlights the need to 1) redefine success and 2) account for intersectional inequalities. First, the current demographic landscape of Latinx students is presented to showcase the variability…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Educational Change, Hispanic American Students, Child Development
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This study examined the relationship between perceived teacher support and overall life satisfaction (LS) in a sample of urban middle school students. Based on correlations between measures of student perceptions related to these constructs, results indicated that student perceptions of teacher support correlated significantly with LS, with the…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Life Satisfaction, Urban Schools, Correlation
Starks, Quesha Shenique – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this quantitative study was to identify conditions that are favorable in promoting the academic achievement of children living in poverty by comparing perceptions of teaching and learning conditions in Title I high schools in Alabama that achieved Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) and Title I high schools that did not achieve AYP. The…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Secondary School Teachers
Cook, Pamela R. – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2009
Purpose: There is limited amount of research that constitutes non-traditional curricula implemented within an institutionalized context of developing countries. An attempt is made in this project to gain a clearer understanding of a non-traditional early learning program within an orphanage campus setting of Ladyville, Belize, Central America.…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Student Attitudes, Early Childhood Education, Caregivers
Stewart, Thomas; Wolf, Patrick J.; Cornman, Stephen Q. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2007
In January 2004 President Bush authorized the DC School Choice Incentive Act, an initiative funded at $14 million that created a scholarship program providing 1,700 low-income Washington, DC, children the opportunity to attend participating K-12 nonpublic schools in the district. In addition to offering opportunities to participating children, the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Environment, Scholarships, School Choice
CSR, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1991
This handbook is for administrators of programs in higher education settings which deal with alcohol and other drug (AOD) related problems. Chapter 1, "Defining the Problem, Issues, and Trends" examines the problem from various perspectives and presents the latest statistics on the extent of AOD use on campuses, specific problems…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Administrator Role, Alcohol Abuse, Campuses
Stubbs, Judith E. – 1981
This is a report on the Positive Human Interaction Project (PHI) implemented under the Emergency School Aid Act in the Metropolitan Nashville (Tennessee) school system during 1980-81. The report describes the PHI centers set up in thirteen project schools to prevent resegregation in desegregated schools by encouraging interaction activities among…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Educational Environment, Elementary Schools, Federal Programs
