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Direct linkde la Torre, Adela – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2014
Niños Sanos, Familia Sana (NSFS) is a 5-year multi-intervention study aimed at preventing childhood obesity among Mexican-origin children in rural California. Using a transdisciplinary approach and community-based participatory research (CBPR) methodology, NSFS's development included a diversely trained team working in collaboration with community…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Intervention, Obesity, Prevention
Download full textSidarous, Natalie – California Postsecondary Education Commission, 2009
The Improving Teacher Quality (ITQ) program released Requests for Proposals in March for the next round of teacher professional development projects. The first RFP, Addressing the Achievement Gap in Middle Schools (AAGMIS), is for stand-alone grants similar to the 2008 projects that target the achievement gap in elementary schools. The second RFP,…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Professional Development, Grants, Instructional Improvement
California Postsecondary Education Commission, 2008
This brief report provides an update on the status of the Commission's Improving Teacher Quality (ITQ) Program, now in the midst of its 2008 competition to provide teacher professional development grants to California colleges and universities. The 2008 Request for Proposals was released in early March. Technical assistance meetings to explain the…
Descriptors: Grants, Research Proposals, Audits (Verification), Meetings
California State Coordinating Council for Higher Education, Sacramento. – 1972
A study is proposed to attempt to answer the following: (1) How many and what kinds of Community College students drop out or do not return? (2) In what ways do non-persisters differ from persisters and what can colleges do to increase retention? (3) What is the employment experience of non-persisters who did not complete occupational programs or…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Rate, Dropout Research
California Postsecondary Education Commission, 2007
Commission reports show that females outnumber males in college enrollment and graduation, both nationally and in California--a gap that continues to widen, especially for males in underrepresented racial and ethnic groups. Recent Commission research described this disparity and how it varies by race/ethnicity, academic discipline, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Equal Education, Achievement Gap, Males
Singer, Harry – 1970
Integration in Riverside Unified School District, California, justified on moral, legal, social, and educational grounds, provided a natural time-series experiment for testing the unexpected effects of lateral transmission of peer group values and normalization of instruction on the achievement of Anglos (81.5 percent), blacks (6.1 percent), and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Analysis of Variance, Black Students, Desegregation Effects
