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Bester, Garfield; Kuyper, Nadine – Africa Education Review, 2020
Resilience can be viewed as successful adaptation despite challenging or threatening circumstances (e.g. poverty). This article reports on an investigation of which the primary aim was to establish how additional educational support enhances adolescents' resilience and academic performance. A quantitative approach was followed using two schools.…
Descriptors: Poverty, Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Middle Class
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Gemici, Sinan; Rojewski, Jay W. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2010
Work-based learning interventions, particularly cooperative education, are a viable way to support the post-high school transition process, enhance work-related cognitive development, and increase the occupational engagement of at-risk youth. Using propensity score matching to analyze data from the Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, High Schools, At Risk Students, Cooperative Education