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Rispoli, Kristin M.; Sheridan, Susan M. – Advances in School Mental Health Promotion, 2017
Associated with complex developmental, personal, and environmental risk factors, adolescent parents have been found to display higher rates of unfavorable parenting practices than adult parents, placing their children at high risk for social, emotional and behavioral concerns. Nevertheless, interventions targeting this group often focus solely on…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Parents, Intervention, Child Rearing
Miesner, H. Rose; Packard, Chiara; Laemmli, Taylor; MacGregor, Lyn – Wisconsin Center for Education Research, 2020
Although policymakers generally appreciate the value of crafting policies that are responsive to teacher and principal voice, doing so in a systematic way is challenging. Educator voices in the room when policies are made are often those of teachers and principals closest to policymakers. In 2019, to broaden the range of educator voices available…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Poverty, Public Schools, Teacher Attitudes
Temple, Judy A.; Reynolds, Arthur J.; Miedel, Wendy T. – 1998
The effects of participation in the Chicago (Illinois) Child-Parent Center and Expansion Program from ages 3 to 9 on early school dropout at age 17 were studied. The Child-Parent Centers offer a government-funded educational intervention program in preschool through second or third grade in 20 locations in Chicago's poorest neighborhoods. Using…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Early Intervention, High School Students, High Schools
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Alwin, Duane F.; Thornton, Arland – American Sociological Review, 1984
Compares the effects on high school achievement of family socioeconomic factors present during students' early childhood and during students' late adolescence. Results point to the potentially stronger role in cognitive development and school learning of early socioeconomic factors, except in the case of family size. (RDN)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Cognitive Development, Family Characteristics
Braun, Maureen H.; Fuscaldo, Diane P. – 1988
This study evaluates the impact of the Parent Linking Project III (PLP III) on its participants. The PLP III is a comprehensive program for teenage mothers which offers workshops in parenting, mother-child interaction, and vocational awareness, and provides day care services that allow teen mothers to take the opportunity to complete their high…
Descriptors: Black Mothers, Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Child Rearing
Kim, Byong Won – 1988
Reports on a study of barriers to success in learning English as a second language (ESL). The study incorporates data gathered from case studies of two Korean children (aged five and seven years), from the results of writing and reading tests of English administered to academically successful Korean high school students, and from the language…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, College Freshmen, Communicative Competence (Languages)