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Direct linkShirilla, Paul – Journal of Experiential Education, 2009
Social skill development is emerging as an important issue for educators and practitioners in their work with adolescent youth. This presentation will use the results from two ongoing research projects to examine the relationship between adventure-based programming and social skill development in the lives of diverse youth. The first project is…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Extension Education, Research Projects, Skill Development
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Summer Training and Education Program (STEP) is a summer employment, academic remediation, and life skills program intended to lower school dropout rates by reducing summer learning loss and preventing teen parenthood. The program is integrated into the federal summer jobs program and is offered during six-to-eight-week sessions in two consecutive…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Temporary Employment, Remedial Programs, Daily Living Skills
Tonn, Jessica L. – Education Week, 2005
Learning what interests college-admissions committees drew this Homestead High School junior and 18 other teenagers to a 10-day College Admission Prep Camp run by Education Unlimited (EU) on the campus of Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts last July 2005. The program is among many such camps offered across the country this summer, by both…
Descriptors: High Schools, Adolescents, Study Skills, Time Management
