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Summit, Aleza K.; Friedman, Emmeline; Stein, Tara B.; Gold, Marji – Journal of School Health, 2019
Background: With recent recommendations from professional organizations, long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) methods are considered appropriate first-line contraception for adolescents. Many school-based health centers (SBHCs) in New York City (NYC) have recently added onsite LARC insertion and management to their contraceptive options. We…
Descriptors: Contraception, Educational Environment, Health Services, Program Implementation
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Solano, Gina L. – Critical Questions in Education, 2020
This article describes a university service-learning program with preservice teachers who volunteered as tutors to teach in an adult GED program. The adult participants were involved in a local drug court program, which is a branch in the criminal justice system. Project Literacy Instruction to Further Education (Project LIFE) was developed by the…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Higher Education, High School Equivalency Programs, Preservice Teachers
Julie Allyson Byle – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The objective of this study was to better understand what aspects of place and curriculum influence experiences for underserved youth in an environmental education program. For instance, how can environmental education managers create program experiences that maintain depth and focus, while honoring the unique ways students connect and find…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Educational Background, Service Learning, Equal Education
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Yu, Chien-Hong; Kuo, Ching-Chih; Chen, Yen-Wei; Chu, Chien-Chi – Gifted Education International, 2020
The Bright Mind Project, sponsored by Morgan Stanley Taiwan and Chinese Association of Gifted Education, was launched in 2004 and ended in 2018. With scholarships, living subsidies, enrichment courses, and counseling provided, this project was tailored for gifted senior high students of socioeconomically disadvantaged families in Taiwan. After the…
Descriptors: Program Descriptions, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Gifted
Faulkner, Andrea Cole – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Students with ED are more likely to be placed in restrictive settings than youth with any other disability classification, according to the U.S. Department of Education (2002). Despite a report that states, without prevarication, that improvement in services for children with ED continues to be a U.S. Department of Education (2010) priority as it…
Descriptors: High School Students, Emotional Disturbances, Day Programs, Disabilities
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Kalluri, Nikita S.; Knopov, Anita; Kue, Ricky – Journal of Education, 2018
Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) survival rates have been shown to be lower than cardiac arrest survival rates occurring in the hospital setting. Bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) can significantly improve survival. PumpStart, a community service-learning program developed by medical students, was formed to increase education on…
Descriptors: Service Learning, First Aid, High School Students, Hospitals
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Vergés Bosch, Núria; Freude, Leon; Camps Calvet, Clara – Teaching Sociology, 2021
Service learning (SL) is growing in our universities and in Spain. However, still much action and research are needed with a gender perspective. This article aims to evaluate an SL project that consisted of workshops in schools on gender and technology. We evaluated the experience with a mixed-methods approach and a gender perspective. This…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Teaching Methods, Sociology, Gender Differences
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Lee, Hsin-Hua; Wentz, Bethany L. – International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling, 2019
The population of Mandarin-speaking, Chinese international students is rapidly expanding in the United States (Institute of International Education n.d.). Among them, there is a small subgroup of individuals who are minors and unaccompanied by parents (i.e., parachute kids). As part of its initiative to increase support for Mandarin-speaking…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Foreign Students, Private Schools, High School Students
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McMahon, Debbie – Childhood Education, 2020
For many educators, the inspiration to teach comes from a desire to make a positive difference in students' lives. As they seek to guide students toward their big goals through trying times, teachers need resources that strengthen social and emotional skills. Facing this very challenge, Allison Silverman, a teacher at Port Chester Middle School in…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Program Descriptions, Social Change, Competition
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Basnet, Bal Krishna – European Educational Researcher, 2020
Although earthquakes themselves do not kill people, they highlight the critical importance of physical infrastructure resilience, safety measures and preparedness for natural disasters. Earthquakes are one of several environmental crises that can be categorized as a natural hazard/disaster. This study uses the qualitative method of research. The…
Descriptors: Natural Disasters, Emergency Programs, Simulation, Foreign Countries
Jennifer C. Smith-Grant; Nancy D. Brener; Adriana Rico; J. Michael Underwood; Barbara Queen – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2022
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention established School Health Profiles (Profiles) in 1996 to monitor school health policies and practices in secondary schools in states and school districts across the United States. Profiles is a system of surveys conducted biennially in even-numbered years and provides data on the following topics:…
Descriptors: Public Health, School Policy, Health Education, Physical Education
Swarts, Gabriel P. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This qualitative study addressed the formation of student identity (servant and civic) as well as how students formed community through experiencing difference in a service-learning classroom. An interpretive qualitative study of five high school students was conducted in a service-learning program at Willow Falls High School, a public high school…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Qualitative Research, Self Concept, High School Students
Merrill, Lisa – Research Alliance for New York City Schools, 2020
Earning a college degree is widely recognized as the most reliable pathway to economic stability (Carnevale, Smith, & Strohl, 2013). But it is known from a wide range of research that access to college is neither easy nor equitable, and that traditionally underrepresented students (including low-income students and Black and Latino students)…
Descriptors: Mentors, Social Emotional Learning, College Attendance, Access to Education
Rodler, Liza – Administration for Children & Families, 2021
The Unaccompanied Refugee Minors (URM) Program serves refugees and other eligible youth within the United States who do not have a parent or relative available to care for them. While current research points to the importance of education for vulnerable populations including refugees, immigrants, and youth in foster care, there are gaps in the…
Descriptors: Refugees, Immigrants, Foster Care, Educational Attainment
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Kakalia, Tiffnie; Carpenter, Dee-Ann; Lee, Winona K. – Educational Perspectives, 2019
I Ola Kohala is an educational pilot project that strengthens opportunities for middle and high school students in North Hawai?i to explore opportunities in higher education and health professions through strengthening cultural identity and civic responsibility. The program is also focused on delivering quality rural health education for health…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Middle School Students, High School Students, Higher Education
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