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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
ACT, Inc., 2007
Postsecondary and work success is central to the economic and social wellbeing of a country. Fundamentally, college success is measured by persistence to degree attainment. Analogously, work success refers to effective performance of a job's required tasks. To succeed in college, one must be ready for college. A student who is ready for college is…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Career Development
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Wigfield, Allan; Lutz, Susan L.; Wagner, A. Laurel – Professional School Counseling, 2005
This article discusses development during the early adolescent years with a focus on recent research on the biological, cognitive, self-identity, and motivational changes that occur during this time period and the implications of this research for middle school counselors. Peer influences on early adolescents also are discussed, with the issue of…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Adolescent Development, Middle Schools, School Counselors