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The Effect of Neighborhood Context on the College Aspirations of African American Adolescents
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Stewart, Endya B.; Stewart, Eric A.; Simons, Ronald L. – American Educational Research Journal, 2007
Previous research on educational aspirations has focused almost exclusively on micro-level predictors of educational aspirations. Notably absent from these studies are measures reflecting the neighborhood context in which adolescents live. Drawing on Wilson's theory of neighborhood effects, the present study examines the extent to which…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Academic Aspiration, Adolescents, African American Students
The Juvenile and Adolescent Substance Abuse Prevention Program: An Evaluation
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Talpade, Medha; Lynch, Diane; Lattimore, Barbara; Graham, Ashlee – International Journal of Behavioral Consultation and Therapy, 2008
The Juvenile and Adolescent Substance Abuse Prevention Program (JASAP) is a curriculum-based prevention and health promotion program for youth between the ages of 13 to 18 years in Fulton County, Georgia. The program was established in 2007 to promote healthy decision-making skills that would eventually lead to informed choices and decisions…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Program Evaluation, Self Efficacy, Prevention
An Analysis of Status Consistency of the Projected Frames of Reference: A Racial Comparison of Males in Selected Low-Income Areas of the Rural South.
Pelham, John T. – 1968
The specific objective was to study racial differences in the consistency dimension of desired status objects (aspirational frame of reference) and expected objects (anticipated frame of reference) of adolescent males from the rural South. Specific observations were made on (1) racial differences in consistency of aspirational frames of reference…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Adolescents, Aspiration, Blacks