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Kumanyika, Shiriki – Health Education & Behavior, 2019
Efforts to combat the U.S. obesity epidemic have been ongoing in earnest for nearly two decades, informed by a substantial body of knowledge and guided by numerous programmatic and policy recommendations. Yet, although there are some bright spots, I sense frustration in the public health community with the overall lack of clear progress in…
Descriptors: Obesity, Incidence, Race, Ethnicity
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Kang, S. Steve – Religious Education, 2007
In this article, the author shares some of his teaching experiences as a non-European-American religious educator. He relates that while he had received some rather poor evaluations from his students in the past, he also had some wonderful encounters with students who had experienced deep transformation in their lives, and later thanked him for…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Teacher Effectiveness, Adolescents, Teaching Experience
Office of the Surgeon General (DHHS/PHS), Washington, DC. – 2002
This packet of materials is Phase 1 of a toolkit designed to enlighten education leaders about the need for HIV prevention for youth, especially in communities of color. One element of the toolkit is a VHS videotape that features a brief message from former Surgeon General, Dr. David Satcher. The toolkit also includes a copy of a letter sent to…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adolescents, Alaska Natives, American Indians
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Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2008
This volume is the second in a set of two published as the 2008 Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education. Planning for the volumes began more than five years ago, when the Society's Board of Directors expressed an interest in taking steps to encourage a more expansive, penetrating dialogue about education in democratic…
Descriptors: Yearbooks, Internet, Democracy, Foundations of Education
Katzman, Martin T.; Vandell, Deborah – 1981
This monograph documents the magnitude and likely prognosis of demographic changes in the 1970's and suggests the impact of these trends on the problems of early childhood education. The implications of this changing environment for designing a new Follow Through program are also examined. With respect to the changing demographic environment,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Asian Americans, Birth Rate, Blacks
Wang, Josephine, Comp. – 1984
Summaries of 40 papers on the broad topic of entering the mainstream are provided. Three keynote speakers spoke on the problems of entering the mainstream, on the commission on excellence in education, and on the Asian American contribution to the American Dream. The first session discussed Congressional developments in education and new theories…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acculturation, Adolescents, Adult Education