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Promising Opportunities for Black and Latino Young Men: Findings from the Early Implementation of the Expanded Success Initiative. Executive Summary
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Villavicencio, Adriana; Klevan, Sarah; Guidry, Brandon; Wulach, Suzanne – Research Alliance for New York City Schools, 2014
In 2011, the New York City Mayor's Office, the Open Society Foundations, Bloomberg Philanthropies, and over 20 local agencies launched the Young Men's Initiative (YMI), a citywide effort to improve outcomes for Black and Latino young men in the areas of education, health, employment, and criminal justice. YMI is one of the single largest…
Descriptors: African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Males, Racial Differences
Promising Opportunities for Black and Latino Young Men: Findings from the Early Implementation of the Expanded Success Initiative. Technical Appendices
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Villavicencio, Adriana; Klevan, Sarah; Guidry, Brandon; Wulach, Suzanne – Research Alliance for New York City Schools, 2014
This appendix describes the data collection and analytic processes used to develop the findings in the report "Promising Opportunities for Black and Latino Young Men." A central challenge was creating an analytic framework that could be uniformly applied to all schools, despite the individualized nature of their Expanded Success…
Descriptors: African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Males, Racial Differences
Promising Opportunities for Black and Latino Young Men: Findings from the Early Implementation of the Expanded Success Initiative. Report
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Villavicencio, Adriana; Klevan, Sarah; Guidry, Brandon; Wulach, Suzanne – Research Alliance for New York City Schools, 2014
In 2011, the New York City Mayor's Office, the Open Society Foundations, Bloomberg Philanthropies, and over 20 local agencies launched the Young Men's Initiative (YMI), a citywide effort to improve outcomes for Black and Latino young men in the areas of education, health, employment, and criminal justice. YMI is one of the single largest…
Descriptors: African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Males, Racial Differences
We Need To Talk: Communication Strategies for Effective Collaboration.
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Hollingsworth, Heidi L. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2001
This article outlines a variety of communication strategies for effective collaboration in school settings, including conducting a needs assessment, providing professional development, producing newsletters, forming study groups, and conducting small-group dialogues. Topics for conversation are discussed and sample needs assessment items are…
Descriptors: Cooperating Teachers, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Focus Groups
The Role of Perceptions in Dating Violence among Young Adolescents
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Prospero, Moises – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2006
The high prevalence of dating violence and the severity of its aftermath warrant the collaboration between research and practice for the development of prevention and intervention programs. This study investigates young adolescents' perceptions of dating partner's behaviors in common dating situations and their behavioral reaction to these dating…
Descriptors: Intervention, Nonparametric Statistics, Focus Groups, Dating (Social)
Making Evaluation Work: One School District's Experience.
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Avery, Linda D.; Van Tassel-Baska, Joyce; O'Neill, Barbara – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1997
Describes the methodology used (focus groups, classroom observations, interviews, questionnaires, and surveys) and results of the Greenwich (Connecticut) Public Schools' external evaluation of their kindergarten through grade 8 program for gifted and talented students. Also discussed are the implementation of the findings and recommendations into…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Classroom Research, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods
Prevention That Works! A Guide for Developing School-Based Drug and Violence Prevention Programs.
Knowles, Cynthia R. – 2001
This book helps educators produce assessments of their schools' drug and violence prevention programs. It contains over 30 separate resources that can be adapted to specific evaluations (e.g., sample youth and adult participant feedback sheets, sample classroom observation sheets and teacher implementation logs, sample en-route participant…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Data Collection, Drug Education, Elementary Secondary Education