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Promoting Adolescent Adjustment by Intervening in Ethnic-Racial Identity Development: Opportunities for Developmental Prevention Science and Considerations for a Global Theory of Change
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Umaña-Taylor, Adriana J. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2023
Identity formation is a fundamental developmental process that has significant consequences for youth adjustment during adolescence and beyond. This article presents evidence indicating that ethnic-racial identity, specifically, is an important developmental competency on which prevention science should focus in the interest of promoting positive…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Student Adjustment, Racial Identification, Ethnicity
Bridging Cultures through Literacy. The Thirty-Seventh Yearbook: A Double Peer-Reviewed Publication of the Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers
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Vasinda, Sheri, Ed.; Szabo, Susan, Ed.; Johnson, Robin D., Ed. – Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers, 2015
The theme for the 58th annual conference of the Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers (ALER) was Bridging Cultures Through Literacy. In the first section of the Yearbook, Parker Fawson's presidential address captures the unique nature of ALER and its role in his professional development, and then moved beyond to capture the changing…
Descriptors: Literacy, Literacy Education, Reading Comprehension, Common Core State Standards
Preparing Girls To Care for Self and Families Project. Annual Report: July 1, 1988-June 30, 1989.
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Owensboro Public Schools, KY. – 1989
A Preparing Girls Project was incorporated into the Teenage Parent Program, which had been in operation in the Owensboro (Kentucky) City School System since August 1961. It was intended to produce more capable single teen mothers who would be more likely to finish their education and join the labor force. The assessment instruments were reworked…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attitude Change, Career Awareness, Career Planning
Final Report of the Project "T & N Bucks." 1979-80.
Old Bridge Township Board of Education, NJ. – 1980
During the 1979-80 school year, the Old Bridge Township School District promoted and implemented a career education program. Its chief aim was to expand career education from the middle school into the elementary and special education divisions. The project was used as a vehicle to enhance career education, expand and involve elementary teachers,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Behavior Modification, Career Awareness
Innovative Community-Based Career Exploration for Disadvantaged Youth. Final Report.
Harlow, James D. – 1981
A self actualization and career education project was conducted by Cedar Valley College, one of the colleges in the Dallas County Community College District (Texas), for residents of the Dallas County Boys' Home. An instructor from the college's counseling center conducted programs on both campuses, and in addition to this linkage, the project…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Education, Community Education, Cooperative Programs
School Uniforms in Urban Public High Schools
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Draa, Virginia Ann Bendel – Online Submission, 2005
The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not the implementation of a mandatory uniform policy in urban public high schools improved school performance measures at the building level for rates of attendance, graduation, academic proficiency, and student conduct as measured by rates of suspensions and expulsions. Sixty-four secondary…
Descriptors: School Uniforms, School Policy, Program Implementation, Context Effect