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Hess, Shelly L.; Uerling, Donald F.; Piland, William E. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2012
This examination of the current status of multicultural education among California community colleges emerged from a perspective that the inclusion of multicultural education has become a major goal of California's leaders within the past five years. The literature revealed minority students tend to have lower retention rates because they become…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Graduation Requirements, Minority Groups, Minority Group Students
Bijaoui, Nadia Judith – Online Submission, 2012
Background: The educational intervention of this Applied Dissertation consisted of a presentation during which self-selected volunteers were introduced to relevant literature focusing on less known factors causing the disease of obesity and contrasting from behavior. Purpose: The workshop was structured to address the problem statement:…
Descriptors: Negative Attitudes, Control Groups, Income, Confidentiality
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Roeser, Robert W.; Galloway, Mollie; Casey-Cannon, Shannon; Watson, Cary; Keller, Laura; Tan, Elyn – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2008
This study examines relations between early adolescent girls' well-being, achievement, and emerging identities. Variable-centered results showed that girls' moral and student identities were the strongest predictors of their achievement, whereas their moral, student, physical, and peer identities predicted their well-being. Person-centered results…
Descriptors: Females, Academic Achievement, Well Being, Early Adolescents