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Landon Fichtner – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This research focuses on the social pressures experienced by parents at schools identified as middle class across southern California. The literature review of school finances, the LCFF, funding levels, and studies stretches all the way back to the Coleman report. Within this vast body of prior research remained a void in the data. This missing…
Descriptors: Expectation, Middle Class, Parents, Social Influences
Breana Victoria-Delgado – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The current sociopolitical context of the United States has created a divide among the nation which has transpired into Kindergarten-12th grade public school settings. Throughout the United States school boards of education have banned books and Critical Race Theory while attacking social justice teaching pedagogies. Presently, there is growing…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Teachers, Social Justice, Public Schools
Elaine Jessica Castillo Tamargo – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In California, Filipina/x/os continue to be overrepresented in the nursing workforce, with the percentage of nurses identifying as Filipino increasing from 13.4% in 1993 to 20.6% in 2018 (Spetz et al., 2018). While a particular ethnic group being overrepresented in a certain industry is not problematic on its own, certain careers come with greater…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Asian Americans, Colonialism, Social Influences
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Allie White; Hannah Ball; Sara LaBelle – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: Considering that college students experience mental health issues and college counseling centers are overwhelmed, this study identifies instructors as a potential mental health resource for students. This study utilizes the theory of planned behavior to investigate the relationship between students' attitudes, injunctive and descriptive…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Intention, Mental Health
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Taylor Danielle Akason; Cindy Miller-Perrin – Journal of College and Character, 2024
This study examined how faith community interaction and faith community harmony relate to both state and trait body dissatisfaction, loneliness, and sociocultural pressures on appearance among college undergraduates. Participants (N = 1519) were college undergraduate students attending a private university in California. Participants included 546…
Descriptors: College Students, Religious Factors, Psychological Patterns, Social Isolation
Schmitt, Alison; Gutierrez, Ana; Hooker, Sarah – Jobs for the Future, 2020
Many communities are embracing "inclusive economic development" as a way to address inequity that persists even as the economy grows. In an effort to spark a national conversation about the conditions needed to achieve inclusive economic development, this report gives an overview of what JFF [Jobs for the Future] has learned about the…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Inclusion, Economic Opportunities, Investment
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Pronovost, Megan A.; Scott, Rose M. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2021
Adults use social-group membership to make inductive inferences about the properties of novel individuals, and this tendency is well established by the preschool years. Recent evidence suggests that infants attend to features associated with social groups and use social-group membership to interpret an agents' actions. The current study sought to…
Descriptors: Social Influences, Inferences, Logical Thinking, Infants
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Majmundar, Anuja; Unger, Jennifer B.; Cruz, Tess Boley; Kirkpatrick, Matthew G.; Allem, Jon-Patrick – Health Education & Behavior, 2022
Background: The prevalence of electronic-cigarette (e-cigarette) product placement in music videos is on the rise and currently unregulated. This promotional activity is concerning given the popularity of music videos among young adults. Aims: We examined associations between self-reported levels of exposure to music videos with any e-cigarette…
Descriptors: Smoking, Social Influences, Young Adults, Health Behavior
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Bradley D. Marianno; Stefani R. Relles – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2024
This study examines school leaders' implementation of collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) negotiated between teachers' unions and school district administration. Using interviews with school leaders and drawing on a structure-agency perspective, the research highlights the interplay between school leader decision-making, union power, and…
Descriptors: Principals, Collective Bargaining, Unions, Negotiation Agreements
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Lee, Moosung; Kim, Yeonjeong; Chesters, Jenny – Multicultural Education Review, 2022
As immigrants account for an increasing proportion of American youth, understanding how these young people experience change in their citizenship status is an important, yet rarely examined area for research. There is a plethora of evidence that opportunities to participate in American society are stratified according to class, race and ethnicity.…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Citizenship, Adolescents, Attitudes
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Cuellar, Marcela G.; Bencomo Garcia, Alicia; Saichaie, Kem – Journal of Higher Education, 2022
For more than a century, scholars and policymakers have commented and debated on the purposes of higher education. These conversations reflect a combination of public and private goals, with an increasing emphasis on social mobility. The perspective of students, especially those currently enrolled and first-generation college goers for whom social…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Role of Education, First Generation College Students, Student Attitudes
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Salvatore Ioverno; Amy McCurdy; Stephen T. Russell – Prevention Science, 2024
Homophobic bullying constitutes a serious threat to adolescent well-being and could be understood as an ecological phenomenon, influenced by diverse school, regional, and community contexts. This study examined geographic variations in the relationship between school characteristics and homophobic bullying. Data from 2244 California schools,…
Descriptors: Geographic Location, Institutional Characteristics, LGBTQ People, Sexuality
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Amy Sprowles; Jessica Smith; Patricia Siering; Steven Margell; Frank Shaughnessy; Alison O'Dowd; Kerri J. Malloy; Matthew P. Hurst; P. Dawn Goley; Lisa Morehead-Hillman; Borbolla Mazzag; Gillian Black; L. Chook Chook Hillman; Dale Oliver; Katlin R. Goldenberg; Angela Rich; Sonja Manor; Matthew D. Johnson; Eileen Cashman – Science Education and Civic Engagement, 2024
Deficits in college degree attainment limit important perspectives and ways of knowing that inspire creativity and innovation. Disproportional outcomes for racially minoritized groups that are historically underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics exacerbate this problem and promote societal inequities, structural…
Descriptors: Curriculum Implementation, Indigenous Knowledge, STEM Education, Cultural Awareness
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Stein, Rachel; Jimerson, Shane – Journal of School Violence, 2020
Bullying persists as a concern in schools, including the question of why some children bully. One idea differentiating bullying roles (e.g., bully, victim, bully-victim) is that some individuals are morally disengaged, or able to disconnect their moral understanding and behavior. The present study examined types of bullying involvement and moral…
Descriptors: Bullying, Victims, Role, Moral Values
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Herrera, Nancy; Castellanos, Jeanett; Gloria, Alberta M. – Education and Urban Society, 2022
As California is one of the primary states with the highest influx of Latinxs, the rise of Latinx enrollment in California high schools calls to the importance of understanding methods to increase academic and overall wellness. Cultural congruity (i.e., match of one's cultural values with those of the educational setting) is hypothesized to…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Coping, Cultural Relevance, High School Students
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