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Vieluf, Svenja; Hochweber, Jan; Klieme, Eckhard; Kunter, Mareike – Oxford Review of Education, 2015
In the present study we compared comprehensive education systems and education systems using between-school tracking with regard to disparities in the quality of student-teacher relations between low and high achieving students, between students with different socioeconomic backgrounds, and between schools with different achievement and social…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Track System (Education), Comprehensive Programs, Comparative Analysis
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Odom, Samuel L.; Duda, Michelle A.; Kucharczyk, Suzanne; Cox, Ann W.; Stabel, Aaron – Remedial and Special Education, 2014
Post-school outcomes for adolescents and young adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are exceedingly poor. The convergence of adolescence as a development period, the expression of ASD during adolescence, and the complicated logistic nature of high schools create a perfect storm of complexity that may pose challenges and establish barriers to…
Descriptors: High School Students, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Adolescents
Odom, Samuel L.; Duda, Michelle A.; Kucharczyk, Suzanne; Cox, Ann W.; Stabel, Aaron – Grantee Submission, 2014
Post-school outcomes for adolescents and young adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are exceedingly poor. The convergence of adolescence as a development period, the expression of ASD during adolescence, and the complicated logistic nature of high schools create a perfect storm of complexity that may pose challenges and establish barriers to…
Descriptors: Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, Program Implementation, High School Students
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Mmari, Kristin – Journal of Adolescence, 2011
The objectives of this study were to (1) explore the nature of caregiving for orphaned and non-orphaned adolescents; and (2), examine how changes in the caretaking roles, as a result of a parental loss, impact on an orphan's sexual behaviors. A total of 52 in-depth interviews and 11 focus group discussions (n = 83) were conducted among adolescent…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Caregivers, Comprehensive Programs, Adolescents
Haynes, Mariana – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2014
As one of only six states receiving a federal Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy grant, Pennsylvania has designed and implemented an innovative program that focuses on improved instruction and interventions to ensure every student is literate and graduates from high school ready for college and a career. This report describes Pennsylvania's…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Literacy, Student Improvement, Comprehensive Programs
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Fleming, Richard K.; Stokes, Elise A.; Curtin, Carol; Bandini, Linda G.; Gleason, James; Scampini, Renee; Maslin, Melissa C. T.; Hamad, Charles – International Journal of Behavioral Consultation and Therapy, 2008
We review the literature on the prevalence and conditions resulting in overweight and obesity in people with intellectual disability (ID), followed by obesity treatment research with typically developing children and adaptations for children with ID. In addition to proposing directions for future research and practice, we report a comprehensive…
Descriptors: Obesity, Mental Retardation, Developmental Disabilities, Down Syndrome
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Walsh, Barry; Rosen, Paul – Child Welfare, 1979
Describes a program of integrated services and treatment modalities for severely disturbed adolescents. (BD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Comprehensive Programs, Cooperative Programs, Coordination
Whitehead, Barbara Dafoe – American Educator, 1995
Social and cultural norms, institutional reinforcements, and adult oversight that used to enforce a moratorium on adolescent sexual activity have been largely relaxed, and the present approach to sex education is merely leaving adolescents adrift to fend for themselves. It is time to overhaul comprehensive sex education. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Comprehensive Programs, Contraception
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Graham-Migel, Janice – Canadian Journal of Counselling, 2002
Provides an overview of the Comprehensive Guidance and Counseling Program in the Beechville-Lakeside-Timberlea Community. Focuses on program development, including the needs assessment and description of programs designed to meet specific needs of students, program evaluation, staff training, and community involvement. Illustrates how the program…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Community Involvement, Comprehensive Guidance
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Natasi, Bonnie K. – School Psychology Review, 2000
School psychologists are in a key position to participate in comprehensive health care of children and adolescents. Presents a model for school psychology in which practitioners assume an active role in addressing the health and mental health needs of children and adolescents. The model is rooted in developmental- ecological theory and action…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Comprehensive Programs, Health Needs
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Christenson, Sandra L. – School Psychology Review, 2000
Presents a response to "School Psychologists as Health-Care Providers in the 21st Century: Conceptual Framework, Professional Identity, and Professional Practice" (this issue). The author supports the call for school psychologists to assume leadership in facilitating the necessary coordination across systems for such a role change to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Comprehensive Programs, Health Needs
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Saulter, Mae F. – Children Today, 1993
Describes the implementation and operation of the Cherokee Nation Children's Village program in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Examines the four main components of the program: (1) Head Start; (2) the Child Development Center; (3) STEPP (Serving Teenagers through Education and Pregnancy Prevention); and (4) Even Start. (MDM)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Development Centers, Children, Community Programs
Young, Howard; And Others – 1975
This paper discribes a comprehensive juvenile delinquency diversion program serving a poverty community in a large urban center, and attempts to evaluate the problems and effects of the program. The target population was primarily minority-group truants, aged 10-15, who had been in trouble with the authorities. The program included recreational…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Comprehensive Programs, Counseling Effectiveness, Delinquent Rehabilitation
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Power, Thomas J. – School Psychology Review, 2000
Presents a response to "School Psychologists as Health-Care Providers in the 21st Century: Conceptual Framework, Professional Identity, and Professional Practice" (this issue). The author highlights some of the reforms required of the profession to respond to these challenges and describes implications for the training of practitioners.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Comprehensive Programs, Health Needs
Gordon, T. R.; Couture, S. J.; Drefs, M. A. – 2000
The importance of addressing the career- and life-planning needs of Canadian children and adolescents has emerged as a prominent theme in recent studies. Studies of adolescents demonstrate that they are proactive and future-oriented and want to gain information and skills to help prepare them for the transition to adulthood. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Planning, Children, Comprehensive Programs
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