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Hall-Lande, Jennifer A.; Eisenberg, Marla E.; Christenson, Sandra L.; Neumark-Sztainer, Dianne – Adolescence (San Diego): an international quarterly devoted to the physiological, psychological, psychiatric, sociological, and educational aspects of the second decade of human life, 2007
This study investigates the relationships among social isolation, psychological health, and protective factors in adolescents. Feelings of social isolation may influence psychological health in adolescents, but protective factors such as family connectedness, school connectedness, and academic achievement may also play a key role. The sample…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Health, Suicide, Family Relationship
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Hofstein, Avi; Kesner, Miri – International Journal of Science Education, 2006
In this paper, we present the development and implementation over the period of more than 15 years of learning materials focusing on industrial chemistry as the main theme. The work was conducted in the Department of Science Teaching at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. The project's general goal was to teach chemistry concepts in the…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Manufacturing Industry, Science Education, Science Teachers
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Chapin, John; Coleman, Grace – Journal of School Violence, 2006
The study provides a unique portrait of young men self-identified as potential perpetrators of school violence, and explores the relative contributions of personal attributes and the media in the creation and preservation of optimistic biases. The study is the first to document optimistic bias among middle and high school students within the…
Descriptors: Violence, Student Attitudes, Educational Environment, Males
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Youdell, Deborah – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2006
Judith Butler is perhaps best known for her take-up of the debate between Derrida and Austin over the function of the performative and her subsequent suggestion that the subject be understood as performatively constituted. Another important but less often noted move within Butler's consideration of the processes through which the subject is…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Equal Education, Educational Sociology, Cultural Pluralism
Lee, Seon-Young; Olszewski-Kubilius, Paula – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2006
Using 3 psychological scales, this study examined the level of emotional intelligence, moral judgment, and leadership of more than 200 gifted high school students who participated in an accelerative academic program or an enrichment leadership program through a university-based gifted institute. Major findings include that on emotional…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Adolescents, High School Students, Emotional Intelligence
Gewertz, Catherine – Education Week, 2006
This article discusses student pressure as a subject of debate. The latest debate about schoolwork is being fueled by three recent books: "The Homework Myth" by Alfie Kohn, "The Case Against Homework" by Sara Bennett and Nancy Kalish, and "The Overachievers", by Alexandra Robbins, which depicts overextended high…
Descriptors: Overachievement, Homework, High School Students, Academic Achievement
Council for American Private Education, 2005
This document presents the May 2005 issue of the Council for American Private Education's (CAPE's) monthly newsletter, "Outlook." Articles in this issue include: (1) Government Report Profiles U.S. High School Sophomores; (2) Private Schools Value Federal Programs; (3) Pennsylvania Teacher Tapped for Hall of Fame; (4) DC Scholarship…
Descriptors: High Schools, Private Schools, Federal Programs, High School Students
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Godina, Heriberto – Bilingual Research Journal, 2004
This ethnographic study explores the contradictory literacy practices of 10 high school students of Mexican background from the rural Midwest. The author uses the term "Mexican background" to encompass both settled Mexican Americans and recent-immigrant Mexicanos. Literacy is investigated through English and Spanish in a sociocultural…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Literacy, Ethnography, Mexican Americans
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Powers, Joelle D.; Bowen, Gary L.; Rose, Roderick A. – Children & Schools, 2005
Evidence-based practice (EBP) requires that school social workers base their interventions on established empirical links between desired results and the determinants of these results. Using survey results from 10,344 middle and high school students who were administered the School Success Profile (SSP), this study examined the relationship…
Descriptors: Social Environment, Student Attitudes, Intervention, Social Work
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Jensen, Lene Arnett; Arnett, Jeffrey Jensen; Feldman, S. Shirley; Cauffman, Elizabeth – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2004
In this study, 229 high school students and 261 college students evaluated the acceptability of lying to parents under 19 different circumstances where a person's motive for lying differed. Students also indicated the frequency with which they had lied to their parents about diverse issue such as friends, dates, and money. Results indicated that…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Deception, Adolescents, Young Adults
Myatt, Larry – Phi Delta Kappan, 2004
In this article, the author argues that small high schools offer the kinds of environments needed to try out some of newer ideas in school redesign. The author also argues that states and districts should pay attention to what these new institutions are making possible.
Descriptors: High Schools, Small Schools, High Achievement, Educational Environment
Agron, Joe, Ed. – American School and University, 2004
Each month, "American School & University" provides a mix of thought-provoking features, how-to-articles, industry reports, exclusive surveys, new sections, insightful columns, new product introductions and case histories to assist education officials in better performing their jobs. This October 2004 issue includes the following:…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Educational Facilities Planning, Educational Facilities Improvement, Educational Facilities Design
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Fecho, Bob; Graham, Peg; Hudson-Ross, Sally – English Education, 2005
In this article, the authors--the teacher educators who obtained a grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations (AVD)--explore what it meant for teachers and teacher educators involved in the PorTRAIT (Practitioner or Teacher Researchers As Inquiring Travelers) program to enlarge their views of teacher research and their own classrooms by being…
Descriptors: Researchers, Teacher Educators, Teacher Researchers, Context Effect
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Cornelius-White, Jeffrey H. D.; Garza, Aida C.; Hoey, Ann T. – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2004
This study examined 122 high academic achieving Mexican American seniors from 7 schools in South Texas. The results found that fathers' education, families' equal use of English and Spanish, family support of students' growth into areas of their own particular interests, and students' openness to experience had the highest correlations with…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Educational Policy, Personality, Educational Attainment
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Gerlovich, Jack A.; McElroy, Dennis; Parsa, Rahul; Wazlaw, Brian – Science Teacher, 2005
Past studies reveal that science safety in the nation's schools needs significant attention (Gerlovich and Parsa 2002; Gerlovich et al. 2002; Gerlovich, Wilson, and Parsa 1998; and Young 1972). These studies have focused on individual states and the issues and hazards specific to those states. A comprehensive study is needed to identify and…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Science Teachers, School Safety, Science Education
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