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Brooks, Wanda – Reading Research Quarterly, 2006
This article describes a qualitative research study that explored how a middle school case-study class read and responded to "culturally conscious" African American children's books (Sims, 1982, p. 49). First, I relied on literary analyses conducted mainly by Sims (1982) and Harris (1995) to identify African American textual features contained in…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Books, Childrens Literature, Theories
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Reinemann, Dawn H. S.; Teeter Ellison, Phyllis A. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2004
This investigation examined whether cognition serves as a direct factor, mediates, or moderates the relationship between stressful life events and Children's Depression Inventory (CDI; Kovacs, 1992) factor scores in urban, ethnic minority youth. Ninety-eight middle school students completed measures of stressful life events, cognition (cognitive…
Descriptors: Urban Youth, School Psychology, Locus of Control, Factor Analysis
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Bitz, Michael – Art Education, 2004
The Comic Book Project was launched originally as a way of putting into practice some of the most important educational research of the last decade--that is, the correlation between involvement in the arts and performance in academic subjects (Deasy, 2002; Fiske, 1999). This article is not necessarily about comic books; it is about children…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Urban Youth, Art Education, Childrens Art
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Ozer, Emily J. – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2005
This longitudinal school-based study examined school connection and family support as protective factors for adolescent mental health in the context of exposure to violence. After controlling for seventh grade functioning, recent exposure to violence uniquely predicted worsening of functioning from seventh to eighth grade across multiple self- and…
Descriptors: Family Influence, Student School Relationship, High Risk Students, Mental Health
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Graber, Julia A.; Nichols, Tracy; Lynne, Sarah D.; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne; Botvin, Gilbert J. – Applied Developmental Science, 2006
This article examines family, friend, and media influences on competent and problem behaviors in a sample of 1,174 urban minority youth followed over 6th, 7th, and 8th grades. Students completed annual surveys at their schools. Each of the contextual factors investigated was significantly associated with concurrent aggression and delinquency as…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Early Adolescents, Family Influence, Peer Influence
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Jackson, Margo A.; Kacanski, Jaclyn Mendelsohn; Rust, Jonathan P.; Beck, Sarah E. – Journal of Career Development, 2006
This study examines school and work barrier beliefs about the limitations of education for future career rewards and perceived supports for attaining the educational and career aspirations of low-income, inner-city, African American, Hispanic/Latino(a), and Caribbean immigrant youth. The authors find that higher levels of school and work barrier…
Descriptors: Urban Youth, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Latin Americans
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Cipollone, Mary – Afterschool Matters, 2006
People who read become absorbed in a process of discovery about the world around them; books open doors to otherwise inaccessible places and introduce readers to profound new ideas. Approximately 15 seventh-, eighth-, and ninth-grade members of the StreetSquash Book Club in Harlem meet on Friday afternoons to read, write, and discuss topics…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Young Adults, Adolescent Literature, Novels
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Proweller, Amira; Mitchener, Carole P. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2004
Teacher identity development and change is shaped by the interrelationship between personal biography and experience and professional knowledge linked to the teaching environment, students, subject matter, and culture of the school. Working from this framework, this study examines how beginning teacher interns who are part of an alternative route…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Urban Youth, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction
Guzzetti, Barbara J., Ed. – Praeger, 2007
Living in an age of communication, literacy is an extremely integral part of our society. We are impacted by literature during our infancy, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. "Literacy for the New Millennium" includes information from specialists in the field who discuss the influence of popular culture, media, and technology on…
Descriptors: Urban Youth, Young Adults, Adolescents, Literacy Education
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