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Selvi Rajagopal; Kaitlyn Harper; Katherine Holzhauer; Tina Kumra – Journal of Youth Development, 2022
Positive youth development (PYD) is a strengths-based approach to youth programming which has been tested with success in largely higher income settings with mostly White youth. This study aims to identify the extent to which organizations who work in an urban context serving predominately African American youth incorporate PYD principles into…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Youth Opportunities, African Americans, Individual Development
Robert Baradaran – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The skills that culinary school graduates gain from the curriculum do not align with the culinary industry requirements for their first position. This problem, if not addressed, will lead to lower enrollment of students and a limited number of employed culinary arts graduates in California. This basic qualitative study aimed to explore California…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Student Attitudes, Cooking Instruction, Foods Instruction
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Renee Gibert; Imani Adams; Sungwoo Kang – Cogent Education, 2024
Culturally Relevant Pedagogy (CRP) is an educational framework that illustrates how to foster educational excellence through a focus on cultural competence, critical consciousness, and academic success, which aims to empower students by making education more applicable and responsive to their lived experiences (Ladson-Billings, 1995). This study…
Descriptors: Financial Literacy, Summer Programs, Program Attitudes, Program Effectiveness
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Stephanie Walsh; Andrea Hetling; Sabrina Riddick; Sabrina Rodriguez – Review of Higher Education, 2024
Low-income students struggle with resources while trying to achieve future financial stability. As colleges explore ways to support students, one solution is integration with public benefits. This study focuses on Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), a program that offers cash assistance to low-income adults with children. Statistical…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, College Students, Welfare Services, Welfare Recipients
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Kyle Miller; Jordan A. Arellanes; Toy Beasley; Megan Kybartas – School Community Journal, 2024
Fathers make important contributions to children's learning and development; however, schools and community organizations consistently report challenges to engaging fathers in their work. As part of a larger community-based participatory research project, a local fatherhood coalition created and distributed a survey to learn how various…
Descriptors: Social Services, Elementary Secondary Education, Professional Personnel, School Personnel
National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, 2020
It has become increasingly difficult to succeed in the U.S. workforce with only a high school diploma. While 75% of the middle-class workforce had only a high school education in the 1970s, that percentage dropped to below 40% by 2007. An estimated two-thirds of all jobs in 2020 will require some postsecondary training, up from just a quarter of…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, College Programs, Program Length, Labor Force Development
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Gerrevall, Per – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2018
Induction programmes including assessments of suitability were introduced in Sweden 2011 and were in use for three years. The purpose of this study is to examine the conditions for and the consequences of giving the induction programme a gatekeeper function to the teaching profession. The empirical basis consists of a web-based survey, which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beginning Teacher Induction, Online Surveys, Teaching (Occupation)