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High Stakes in the Classroom, High Stakes on the Street: The Effects of Community Violence on Students' Standardized Test Performance. Working Paper #03-13
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Sharkey, Patrick; Schwartz, Amy Ellen; Ellen, Ingrid Gould; Lacoe, Johanna – Institute for Education and Social Policy, 2013
This paper examines the effect of exposure to violent crime on students' standardized test performance among a sample of students in New York City public schools. To identify the effect of exposure to community violence on children's test scores, we compare students exposed to an incident of violent crime on their own blockface in the week prior…
Descriptors: Violence, Crime, Environmental Influences, Standardized Tests
It's All Happening at the Zoo: Children's Environmental Learning after School
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Douglas, Jason A.; Katz, Cindi – Afterschool Matters, 2009
Pairing dynamic out-of-school-time (OST) programs with zoos can encourage young people's relationships with and sense of responsibility for animals and the environment. The project presented in this article, Animal Rescuers, gave the authors the opportunity to examine how such a pairing can work. OST programs enable learning in settings that are…
Descriptors: Recreational Facilities, Animals, Conservation (Environment), Consciousness Raising
Examining Anger as a Predictor of Drug Use among Multiethnic Middle School Students
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Nichols, Tracy R.; Mahadeo, Madhuvanti; Bryant, Kylie; Botvin, Gilbert J. – Journal of School Health, 2008
Background: Anger, a component of negative affect, has previously been associated with increased drug use primarily among white high school-aged students. However, few studies have examined these associations over time, and fewer have examined them among younger adolescents and students of color. Affective factors may play a greater role in drug…
Descriptors: Marijuana, Prevention, Drug Use, Early Adolescents
A Factor Analytic Study of the Loneliness and Social Dissatisfaction Scale in a Sample of African-American and Hispanic-American Children
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Bagner, Daniel M.; Storch, Eric A.; Roberti, Jonathan W. – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2004
This study investigated the psychometric properties of the Loneliness and Social Dissatisfaction Scale (LSDS) in a sample of African-American and Hispanic-American children. Participants were a non-clinical sample (N = 186) of children ages 11 to 13 in the fifth and sixth grades in a school in the Metropolitan New York area. Confirmatory factor…
Descriptors: African American Children, Hispanic Americans, Children, Psychological Patterns
A Test of Will
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McCloskey, Patrick J. – Teacher Magazine, 2002
In this article, the author describes how Math/Science Institute (M/SI) in New York City prepares minority students to take the rigorous entrance exam for the city's three specialized science high schools: Stuyvesant, Bronx Science, and Brooklyn Technical. M/SI was created in 1995 by Ramon Cortines, who was then chancellor of New York City's…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Minority Groups, Neighborhoods, African American Students
Supporting Inquiry Learning by Promoting Normative Understanding of Multivariable Causality
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Keselman, Alla – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2003
Early adolescents may lack the cognitive and metacognitive skills necessary for effective inquiry learning. In particular, they are likely to have a nonnormative mental model of multivariable causality in which effects of individual variables are neither additive nor consistent. Described here is a software-based intervention designed to…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Inferences, Metacognition, Cognitive Development