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From "Pushed out" to "Pulled in": Creating Spaces of Cooperative Learning Using Cultural Education
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Galicia, Mario Gerardo; Rios, Victor – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
This paper aims to address cultural education as a method for creating a cooperative learning environment for Latino youth participants of a school-based gang and violence intervention program (GVIP). The data for this paper was collected during a 5-year longitudinal ethnographic research study conducted between 2009-2015 in California. In the…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Juvenile Gangs, Violence, Intervention
Associations among Self-Reported School Violence, Military Connection, and Gang Membership in Secondary Schools in California
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Estrada, Joey Nuñez; Gilreath, Tamika; Yadira, Cathia; Astor, Ron Avi – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
It is possible that multiple moves and deployments of family service members are associated with military-connected students' gang membership and involvement with school violence behaviors. In this study, 13,484 students completed modules of the California Healthy Kids Survey. Logistic regressions examined the odds of a student being a member of a…
Descriptors: Juvenile Gangs, Violence, Intervention, Military Personnel
Hope, Rage and Inequality: A Critical Humanist Inclusive Education
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Magill, Kevin; Rodriguez, Arturo – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2015
In this paper we examine challenges faced by students of color in an intervention program [Opportunity] in a socially stratified community on California's Central Coast. The purpose of this paper is to name and discuss the problems students face: lack of support from the teaching community, the school staff and the administration of the parent…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Intervention, Social Stratification, Teacher Attitudes
Linked Learning: Can Career and Technical Education Programs Take California High Schools into the 21st Century?
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Adams, Brian Edward – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This qualitative study explored the ability of a linked learning career and technical education program to engage fully students and thereby increase at-risk students' persistence in school. The focus was to identify the degree to which linked learning career and technical education programs provide a community atmosphere, increase and maintained…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Career Education, Technical Education, At Risk Students
Impact of a Comprehensive Whole Child Intervention and Prevention Program among Youths at Risk of Gang Involvement and Other Forms of Delinquency
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Koffman, Stephen; Ray, Alice; Berg, Sarah; Covington, Larry; Albarran, Nadine M.; Vasquez, Max – Children & Schools, 2009
Youths in gang-ridden neighborhoods are at risk for trauma-related mental health disorders, which are early indicators of likely school failure and delinquency. Such youths rarely seek out services for these problems. The Juvenile Intervention and Prevention Program (JIPP), a school-based gang intervention and prevention program in Los Angeles,…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Intervention, Delinquency Prevention, Youth Programs
Assessing School-Based Gang Prevention Efforts in Urban Centers: Are These Programs Reaching Those Students Who May Benefit the Most?
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Rodriguez, Hector – ProQuest LLC, 2009
In recent years, schools have become a focal point for general delinquency and gang prevention programs for a variety of reasons. One premise behind this approach is that schools can serve as ideal settings for providing delinquency and intervention services because youths spend so much time there. School-based gang prevention efforts are supposed…
Descriptors: Intervention, Delinquency, Prevention, Risk