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Download full textLynn, Randy; Glynn, Jennifer – Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, 2019
Since 2012, the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation has supported educational enrichment in rural areas by awarding over $3.3 million in grants to six outstanding organizations operating in Iowa, Indiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. In this report, the authors combine the experiences of these organizations with findings from the…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Rural Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrichment Activities
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This article explores civic development and its roles in the lives of emerging adults, and the ways in which college contexts--particularly Christian colleges and universities--may foster adaptive civic development. First, the article presents an argument for the importance of fostering civic development as rooted in historic truths of the…
Descriptors: Christianity, Young Adults, Higher Education, Citizen Participation
Morris, Ruth Williams; Martin, Bess; Hopson, Jamal; Welch-Murphy, Kristin – Journal of Research on Christian Education, 2010
A total of 235 adolescents and college students from Aruba, St. Lucia, Tennessee, and Alabama participated in this study that measured various aspects of well-being. The Life Factors Questionnaire measured participants' responses on such self-reported measures as health, intelligence, subjective well-being, responses to stress, optimism,…
Descriptors: College Students, Role Models, Adolescents, Depression (Psychology)
Fox, Andrew; And Others – 1973
This study analyzes the effects on 14- and 15-year-old black teenage girls of entering and participating in a specially designed work program. The girls were provided with supports in their work settings, well-defined tasks, supervisors as well as regularly scheduled peer interaction groups led by a young black woman considered to be an…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Attendance Records, Black Students
Clinton, Barbara; And Others – 1990
This report discusses the results of a qualitative evaluation of the Maternal Infant Health Outreach Worker (MIHOW) project which served over 500 low-income women from 1982 through 1990. The MIHOW project provides outreach services to low-income families in rural communities in Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, and West Virginia. Working in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Child Rearing, Counselor Client Relationship, Economically Disadvantaged
Dee, Thomas S. – Education Next, 2004
The racial interactions between teachers and students can influence student performance in several ways. For example, pupils may trust and respect someone with whom they share a salient characteristic, making learning come more easily. Likewise, a teacher of the same race may serve as a more effective role model, boosting students' confidence and…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Race, White Students, African American Students
