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Ubbink, Marie J.; Strydom, Herman – Research on Social Work Practice, 2019
Purpose: This research is providing social workers with a deeper insight into the process of empowering people from disadvantaged communities with leadership abilities by applying a narrative approach in group work and to develop members' individual potential within their social construction of leaders and leadership. Method: This research was…
Descriptors: Social Work, Caseworkers, Empowerment, Leadership Training
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Motsa, Ncamsile D.; Morojele, Pholoho J. – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2019
Background: This article draws on social constructionism to explore vulnerable boys' constructions of gender within three primary schools in Swaziland. Objectives: It seeks to understand the ways in which vulnerable boys make meaning of masculinities and the implications of these on their social and academic well-being in schools. Method: The…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Elementary School Students, Masculinity, Foreign Countries
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Janvier, Yvette M.; Coffield, Caroline N.; Harris, Jill F.; Mandell, David S.; Cidav, Zuleyha – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2019
Children with autism spectrum disorder from low-income, minority families or those with limited English proficiency are diagnosed at a later age, or not at all, compared with their more advantaged peers. The Developmental Check-In is a new tool that could potentially be used to screen for autism that uses pictures to illustrate target behaviors.…
Descriptors: Identification, Screening Tests, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Fox, Madeline – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2019
This article tells the story of two exploratory youth-centered participatory action research (PAR) projects to consider how youth-centered research can resist inequality. In this paper, I focus on the findings and process of two PAR projects that took place within one geographically isolated neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. The studies focused…
Descriptors: Action Research, Participatory Research, Youth, Social Bias
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McConn, Matthew L. – Research in the Schools, 2019
Research shows that pre-service teachers face traditional approaches to teaching literature in their student teaching placements that contrast with the progressive strategies covered in their graduate education programs. This article describes 4 teacher candidates' (TCs') contrasting assumptions about the teaching of literature in secondary…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teaching Methods, Literature, Lesson Plans
Heckman, James J.; Karapakula, Ganesh – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019
This paper examines the impact of the iconic Perry Preschool Project on the children and siblings of the original participants. The children of treated participants have fewer school suspensions, higher levels of education and employment, and lower levels of participation in crime, compared with the children of untreated participants. Impacts are…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Siblings, Children, Intervention
Lloyd, Chrishana M.; Kane, Maggie; Seok, Deborah; Vega, Claudia – Child Trends, 2019
Over seven million children from birth through age 5 receive child care in home-based child care (HBCC) settings, the most common form of nonparental child care in the United States. Research shows that professional development can help child care providers improve the quality of care that they offer, potentially improving children's outcomes.…
Descriptors: Home Visits, Young Children, Child Caregivers, Child Development
Karbownik, Krzysztof; Özek, Umut – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2019
We identify externalities in human capital production function arising from sibling spillovers. Using regression discontinuity design generated by school-entry cutoffs and school records from one district in Florida, we find positive spillover effects from an older to a younger child in less affluent families and negative spillover effects from a…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Siblings, School Districts, Socioeconomic Status
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Vasquez-Martinez, Claudio-Rafael; Gonzalez-Gonzalez, Felipe; Flores, Francisco; Cardona-T., Jose-Gerardo; Mendez, María-Eugenia; Valdez-Jiménez, Liliana; Espino, Piero; Olaguez, Eugenia; Rendon, Hector; Chavoya, Jorge; Zúñiga, Luz-María; Fonseca-Ramirez, Oscar-Hernan; Alvarez, Maria-Ines; Torres-Mata, Joaquin; Betancourt-Nuñez, Erik-Moises; Rodriguez-Ramirez, Sergio-Esteban; Alvarez-Gomez, Miguel; Cabral-Araiza, Jesus; Anguiano, Carlos – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2019
The intention of the present paper is to show that people have a series of educational needs in the era of information, so that they can become competent digital citizens. These educational needs are evident in the policies promoted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, which were well known to Latin American…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Educational Needs, Educational Change, Latin Americans
VanderWey, Risha Anne – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between Title I school performance and effective district leadership and reform strategies. This study focused on the successful attributes and characteristics of principals whose high-performing (the percentage of students that meet or exceed on the AzMERIT assessment) high-poverty schools…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Characteristics, Poverty, Disadvantaged Schools
Gustafsson-Wright, Emily; Boggild-Jones, Izzy – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2019
With a flourishing social enterprise ecosystem and an appetite among NGOs and policymakers for testing new solutions, India is playing a leading role in its use of innovative financing for development. One such innovative tool is an impact bond, which is a type of outcome-based financing structure where upfront capital is given to service…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Outcomes of Education, Foreign Countries, Bond Issues
Sick, Nathan; Vilter, Carolyn; Spaulding, Shayne – Urban Institute, 2019
In 2013, as many as 4.6 million Americans were young parents, defined as ages 18 to 24 (Sick, Spaulding, and Park 2018). And approximately 43 percent of children in the United States are born to parents who had their first child when they were young (Sandstrom et al. 2019). Many of these young parents work and participate in school or training to…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Parents, Student Responsibility, Young Adults
Kurtz, Holly; Lloyd, Sterling; Harwin, Alex; Chen, Victor; Furuya, Yukiko – Editorial Projects in Education, 2019
In the spring of 2019, the EdWeek Research Center conducted a survey of more than 1,200 K-12 gifted and talented teachers and coordinators to learn more about how districts and schools define, identify, serve, and instruct students in gifted and talented programs. A major objective was to gain a better understanding of the extent to which…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Equal Education, Disproportionate Representation, Screening Tests
Andrew Joseph Pereira – Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education, 2019
Advertisements commissioned by official ministries make ideal sites for investigating how media discourses are informed by state ideologies. Teacher recruitment advertisements, in particular, may be seen mobilising an ideologically charged vision of teacher professionalism that is at once reductive and productive. This chapter critiques the…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Public Agencies, Advertising, Job Applicants
M. Christine Dwyer – RMC Research Corporation, 2019
Maine's Departments of Education (DOE) and Health and Human Services (DHHS) successfully applied for a Preschool Development Grant (PDG-Birth to 5) to address quality, accessibility, and affordability of services for Maine's children birth to age five and their families. The grant, awarded in January 2019, has five goals: (1) Determine the current…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Educational Quality, Access to Education
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