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Fauth, Rebecca C.; Leventhal, Tama; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2007
This study examined 7-year follow-up data from the Yonkers Project, a study of a 1985 court-ordered neighborhood desegregation program in Yonkers, NY. Low-income Black and Latino families residing in impoverished neighborhoods who were randomly selected to relocate to publicly funded townhouses in middle-class communities and demographically…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Outcomes of Education, Educational Objectives, Behavior Problems
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Hills, Marcia D.; Knowles, Donald W. – Family Relations, 1987
Improvements in transfer and retention of skills learned in parent education programs were hypothesized to occur if the learning process provided for the "discovery of personal meaning". Data from 28 parents revealed that parents in the personal meaning approach demonstrated more effective learning and retention. Few changes in attitude…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Learning
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Malik, Ranbir Singh – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2004
In a doctoral study undertaken at Edith Cowan University the author set out to investigate the influence of home and school environments on the academic performance and educational/occupational aspirations of high school students from eight Chinese-Australian and Anglo-Australian families residing in a middle class suburb of Perth metropolitan…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Participant Observation, Life Style, Occupational Aspiration