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Goodman, Christie L., Ed. – Intercultural Development Research Association, 2018
The "IDRA Newsletter" serves as a vehicle for communication with educators, school board members, decision-makers, parents, and the general public concerning the educational needs of all children in Texas and across the United States. The theme of this issue is "Gender Justice." Articles include: (1) Sexual Harassment -- Safe…
Descriptors: Sexual Harassment, Educational Environment, Gender Bias, Social Justice
Hoefer, Sharon E.; Hoefer, Richard – American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2017
"Abstinence-only" sex education, which is still widely used across the United States, does not prepare students to engage in healthy adult relationships. Prior research evidence indicates that abstinence-only education is less effective at preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) than comprehensive sex education.…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Sex Education, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Curriculum
Stroh, Jeanne L. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Urban school leaders, particularly superintendents are on the frontlines for raising student achievement at all levels. The work of urban superintendents is intensive given the challenges they encounter. Research has indicated that school leaders who possess and enact skills and knowledge that support change leadership. The question, then, is…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Instructional Leadership, Females, Women Administrators
Payne, Elizabethe – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2010
The power of compulsory heterosexuality regulates the sexuality of adolescent lesbians as strongly as it does their heterosexual peers. Marked with a sexual(ized)identity, young Southern lesbians in this life history study made claim to moral high ground by consistently identifying with the hegemonic "good girl" construct and by…
Descriptors: Females, Sexual Orientation, Biographies, Sexuality
Cullen, Karen Weber; Smalling, Agueda Lara; Thompson, Debbe; Watson, Kathleen B.; Reed, Debra; Konzelmann, Karen – Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 2009
Objective: To evaluate a modified curriculum for the 6-session Texas Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) promoting healthful home food environments and parenting skills related to obesity prevention. Design: Two-group randomized control trial; intervention versus usual EFNEP curriculum. Setting: Texas EFNEP classes. Participants:…
Descriptors: Obesity, Body Composition, Intervention, Parenting Skills
Ohlendorf, George W. – 1967
The general objective of this study was to learn the nature of associations for race and sex with several dimensions of educational orientations held by adolescents living in selected all-rural, low-income areas. A secondary objective was to evaluate the general utility of a new multi-dimensional conceptual scheme for the study of status…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Black Achievement, Black Students, Conceptual Schemes
Kuvlesky, William P.; And Others – 1973
Ambitions for social mobility among rural southern Blacks and their influence on out-migration trends were explored in this analysis. Data utilized were collected as part of a more comprehensive study of living patterns among disadvantaged families. In the summer of 1970, samples of Black, female adults were drawn from 2 rural villages and a town…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Aspiration, Blacks, Females
Menchaca, Velma Dora – 1992
Little prior research exists on the achievement motivation of Mexican American students. In a rural south Texas junior high school, 120 eighth-grade students completed the 1969 Achieving Tendency Scales and demographic and socioeconomic questionnaires. Subjects were equally divided among four groups: Mexican American males and females and Anglo…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Need, Anglo Americans, Fear