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American Indian Adolescents and Disordered Eating
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Buser, Juleen K. – Professional School Counseling, 2010
School counselors play an important role in identifying and intervening with students struggling with disordered eating (e.g., Bardick et al., 2004). Research has shown that American Indian adolescents report higher rates of certain disordered eating behaviors than other racial groups. The literature on the prevalence and etiology of disordered…
Descriptors: American Indians, Adolescents, Etiology, School Counseling
Who's Really Disrupting the Classroom? An Examination of African American Male Students and Their Disciplinary Roles
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Butler, Bettie Ray; Joubert, Marcus D.; Lewis, Chance W. – Online Submission, 2009
A plethora of research (McCadden, 1998; Monroe 2005; Skiba, Peterson, & Williams, 2000) on student discipline emphasizes the inequities surrounding the distribution of disciplinary actions taken by schools/school districts in regards to behavior, particularly for African American males. This study provides an in-depth examination of disciplinary…
Descriptors: African American Students, Urban Schools, Behavior Patterns, Discipline
The Multidimensionality of School Engagement and Math Achievement among Racial Groups
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Sciarra, Daniel T.; Seirup, Holly J. – Professional School Counseling, 2008
The study in this article employed a multidimensional (behavioral, emotional, and cognitive) construct of school engagement to examine its relationship to school achievement in mathematics across the five major racial groups. The sample included 115 American Indians, 486 Asians, 1,551 Blacks, 1,682 Latinos, and 7,554 Whites who participated in the…
Descriptors: Racial Differences, American Indians, Mathematics Achievement, Academic Achievement