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The Benefits of Playful Learning: Key Insights from Research and Analysis of Playful Learning Landscapes
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Brenna Hassinger-Das; Katelyn Fletcher – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2023
Since the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted in-person learning, fears about children's learning loss remain a primary concern for parents, teachers, and policymakers. These concerns, combined with longstanding issues of inequity regarding children's access to learning opportunities have sparked widespread discussion about how to reimagine education.…
Descriptors: Play, Educational Environment, Space Utilization, Place Based Education
Community Influences on Adjustment in First Grade: An Examination of an Integrated Process Model
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Caughy, Margaret O'Brien; Nettles, Saundra M.; O'Campo, Patricia J. – Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2007
We examined the impact of neighborhood characteristics both directly and indirectly as mediated by parent coaching and the parent/child affective relationship on behavioral and school adjustment in a sample of urban dwelling first graders. We used structural equations modeling to assess model fit and estimate direct, indirect, and total effects of…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Behavior Problems, Social Characteristics, Community Involvement
Analysis of the Effects of a Mathematics/Social Work Intervention in the Middle School.
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Kennedy, Paul A.; And Others – Research in Middle Level Education Quarterly, 1995
Describes the purposes and missions of the Partnership for Access to Higher Mathematics (PATH) Project. Focuses on the degree to which the projects' goals were achieved in an eighth- grade mathematics program. Provides demographic data and the results of statistical analyses used to determine the effectiveness of the project, and concludes with…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Behavior, Community Involvement, Early Intervention
Best Practices of Youth Violence Prevention: A Sourcebook for Community Action.
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Thornton, Timothy N., Comp.; Craft, Carole A., Comp.; Dahlberg, Linda L., Comp.; Lynch, Barbara S., Comp.; Baer, Katie, Comp. – 2000
This sourcebook, which builds on a 1993 publication, "The Prevention of Youth Violence: A Framework for Community Action," offers insight into best practices to prevent violence by children and adolescents. It was developed with input from people working to prevent youth violence and people whose positions made them likely to play a role…
Descriptors: Adolescent Behavior, Adolescents, Child Behavior, Child Development
Practicas optimas para la prevencion de la violencia juvenil: Libro de referencia para la accion comunitaria (Best Practices of Youth Violence Prevention: A Sourcebook for Community Action).
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Thornton, Timothy N., Comp.; Craft, Carole A., Comp.; Dahlberg, Linda L., Comp.; Lynch, Barbara S., Comp.; Baer, Katie, Comp. – 2001
The Spanish-language version of this best practices sourcebook builds on a 1993 publication, "The Prevention of Youth Violence: A Framework for Community Action." It offers insight into tested strategies to prevent violence by children and adolescents. It was developed with input from people working to prevent youth violence and people…
Descriptors: Adolescent Behavior, Adolescents, Child Behavior, Child Development
Collective Socialization and Child Conduct Problems. Data Trends #105
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Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children's Mental Health, 2004
"Data Trends" reports present summaries of research on mental health services for children and adolescents and their families. The article summarized in this "Data Trends" presents findings from research examining the influence of collective socialization, concentration of disadvantage, and prevalence of crime on conduct…
Descriptors: Youth, Socialization, Social Networks, Prosocial Behavior