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Magaldi-Dopman, Danielle; Park-Taylor, Jennie – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2014
In today's urban schools, foreign-born children and children of immigrants are the fastest growing sector of the student population and as a result of this changing demographic, our schools are more ethnically, racially and religiously diverse than they have ever been (Suárez-Orozco et al. in "Thriving and spirituality among youth:…
Descriptors: Urban Education, Religion, Constitutional Law, Predictor Variables
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Cappelli, Mario; And Others – Volta Review, 1995
Evaluated the psychosocial functioning of hearing-impaired children (N=23) matched with general classroom peers. Results indicated that the children with hearing impairments were more likely to be at risk of rejection by their peers than were normally hearing children. Age was the best predictor of rejection, with younger children with hearing…
Descriptors: Age, Elementary Secondary Education, Hearing Impairments, Inclusive Schools
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Gracia, Enrique; Musitu, Gonzalo – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2003
A study involving 670 nonabusive families and 166 abusive families compared Spanish and Colombian cultures in relation to community social support variables and the relationships between these variables and child maltreatment. In both cultures, abusive parents showed lower levels of community integration, participation in social activities, and…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Citizen Participation, Cultural Context, Elementary Secondary Education
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Korbin, Jill E. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2003
This commentary on Enrique Gracia's (2003) article, "Social Isolation from Communities and Child Maltreatment: A Cross-Cultural Perspective," discusses the relationship of neighborhood context to child maltreatment. The difficulty of sorting out individual and contextual factors is emphasized, along with the problem of clearly defining the unit of…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Community Attitudes, Community Influence, Community Problems