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Melissa Pearrow; Whitney Walker; Jill S. Battal; Brian Daniels; Amy Kaye; Alexis Ervin – Middle School Journal, 2025
Early adolescence is a time of rapid cognitive, psychosocial, and physical development, and an array of contextual factors, such as systemic racism, exert significant influence. Universal behavioral health screening data of 4,234 middle school students were examined to explore the influence of demographic (e.g. ethnicity, race) and contextual…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Middle School Students, Urban Schools, Health Behavior
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Kidd, Julie K.; Curby, Timothy W.; Boyer, Caroline E.; Gadzichowski, K. Marinka; Gallington, Deborah A.; Machado, Jessica A.; Pasnak, Robert – Early Education and Development, 2012
Research Findings: A total of 72 Head Start children (M age = 53.26 months, SD = 5.07) were randomly assigned to 4 conditions. Some were taught the oddity principle (choosing the object that differs from others in a group) and seriation (ordering objects on a dimension and inserting new objects into such orders), which are forms of thinking that…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Cognitive Development
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Bolivar, Jose M.; Chrispeels, Janet H. – American Educational Research Journal, 2011
Inequality of access to educational resources by different social classes has been widely documented, and schools have instituted parent programs to ameliorate this situation. However, lacking are theoretically based studies that explain how and why a program may be effective in bringing about change. The authors studied a 12-week parent…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship, Educational Resources, Leadership Training