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Melissa J. DuPont-Reyes; Jared Datzman; Alice P. Villatoro; Jo C. Phelan; Bruce G. Link – School Mental Health, 2024
To help guide school mental health policy and practice, we evaluated patterns of mental health help-seeking across lifetime adversity among sixth-grade adolescents. An ethnically/socioeconomically diverse sample of sixth-graders (N = 751) self-completed assessments of help-seeking and indicators of lifetime adversities: violence victimization,…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Mental Health, Help Seeking, Violence
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Youngshin Lim – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2024
This study examines inequality based on family structure within the school environment, focusing on South Korea's standardized education system. Previous research has pointed to potential challenges associated with a high concentration of students from single-parent families in schools. However, in the context of a standardized education system…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Structure, Equal Education, Social Bias
Francis A. Pearman II – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2020
This study examines the relationship between county-level estimates of implicit racial bias and black-white test score gaps in U.S. schools. Data from over 1 million respondents from across the United States who completed an online version of the Race Implicit Association Test (IAT) were combined with data from the Stanford Education Data Archive…
Descriptors: Racial Differences, Tests, Scores, Grade 3
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Vanfossen, Beth; Brown, C. Hendricks; Kellam, Sheppard; Sokoloff, Natalie; Doering, Susan – Journal of Community Psychology, 2010
We examine the roles of neighborhood characteristics in the development of the aggressive behavior of 1,409 urban boys and girls between the first and seventh grades. The multilevel, longitudinal growth analyses find strong neighborhood effects in all models, while controlling for individual-level variables. Results indicated that the effects of…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Aggression, Family Income, Females
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Simons-Morton, Bruce; Rusan, Chen, – Youth & Society, 2009
Students who are not motivated and do not try to do well are unlikely to achieve consistent with their abilities. This research assesses the relationships over time between school engagement and parenting practices and peer affiliation among sixth to ninth graders using latent growth models. Participants included 2,453 students recruited from…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Parent Participation, Parenting Styles, Child Rearing
Delmore, Patrick – Principal Leadership, 2004
Most often, homeless students are members of minority groups who have attended several schools during their school career, are from single-parent households, and have histories of irregular school attendance. These students also frequently suffer from physical and mental challenges that are rooted in poverty, lack access to medical care, and have…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Minority Groups, Attendance, Homeless People