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Pocai, Jennifer; Davis, Leanne; Ajinkya, Julie – Institute for Higher Education Policy, 2020
Recognizing the special relationship that exists between neighbors, communities across the nation are spearheading innovative programs to build, amplify, and leverage social networks in distressed communities to reach residents not yet enrolled in higher education. Grounded in existing relationships and established trust, the Chamber of Commerce…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Achievement Gap, Racial Differences, Ethnicity
Johnston, Lloyd D.; O'Malley, Patrick M.; Bachman, Jerald G.; Schulenberg, John E. – National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), 2004
The use of licit and illicit drugs by American young people has been a source of major policy and public health concerns for the United States since the mid-1960s. The use of these substances is a leading cause of eventual disease and death in the population, but it also contributes in important ways to mortality and morbidity during adolescence. …
Descriptors: Drug Abuse, Alcohol Abuse, Smoking, Secondary School Students