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Promoting Energy-Balance Behaviors among Ethnically Diverse Adolescents: Overview and Baseline Findings of the Central Texas CATCH Middle School Project
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Springer, Andrew E.; Kelder, Steven H.; Byrd-Williams, Courtney E.; Pasch, Keryn E.; Ranjit, Nalini; Delk, Joanne E.; Hoelscher, Deanna M. – Health Education & Behavior, 2013
The Central Texas Coordinated Approach To Child Health (CATCH) Middle School Project is a 3.5-year school-based project aimed at promoting physical activity (PA), healthy eating, and obesity prevention among public middle school students in Texas. This article describes the CATCH intervention model and presents baseline findings from spring 2009.…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Eating Habits, Obesity, Prevention
The Motivators That Contribute to the Migration of African American Educators from Suburban School Districts to Urban School Districts
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McGary, Ostrova Dewayne – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine the perceived motivators contributing African American educators' decision to migrate from a suburban school district to an urban school district. The case study approach was used in an effort to capture the participants' voices and the motivators contributing to their decision to migrate to an…
Descriptors: School Districts, Urban Schools, Suburban Schools, African American Teachers
The Role of Social Factors in the Successful Adjustment of Mexican-American Families to Forced Housing Relocation: A Final Report of the Chamizal Relocation Research Project, El Paso, Texas.
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Stoddard, Ellwyn R. – 1970
Since 1,155 families living in the Chamizal area of El Paso were forced to relocate after the 1963 signing of the Chamizal Treaty, this report represents a 5-year post-relocation study of 80 of the Mexican American families. The report provides a description of the Chamizal residents, their attitudes and reactions to the relocation process, and…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Community Change, Demography, Economically Disadvantaged
Fixing the Cracks in Education so No One Slips through
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Sanchez, Heliodoro T., Jr. – Educational Forum, The, 2004
Education acts in this country have been created with the express purpose of preventing students from slipping through the cracks. Unfortunately, legislation has not been successful. By disaggregating the student dropout rate in Texas and juxtaposing this information to the prison influx rate in 2001, a profile of the population entering Texas…
Descriptors: Dropout Rate, Correctional Institutions, Delinquency, Institutionalized Persons
The Advisory Committee on Women and Minority Faculty and Professional Staff. Final Report.
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Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Austin. – 1997
The Texas Advisory Committee on Women and Minority Faculty and Professional Staff sought to identify strategies that would increase the number of women and minority faculty and professional staff at institutions of higher education in Texas. The work of the Committee was divided into four subcommittees: (1) Pipeline/Pool; (2) Recruitment; (3)…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Black Students, Black Teachers, Blacks