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Direct linkMaloney, Erin K.; Bleakley, Amy; Stevens, Robin; Ellithorpe, Morgan; Jordan, Amy – Health Education Journal, 2023
Background: In the USA, lower income minority ethnic children and teenagers report high consumption of sugar sweetened beverages, which cause dental erosion and dental carries, and play a significant role in overweight, obesity and diabetes. Objective: This study aimed to examine urban adolescents' beliefs about sports and energy drinks to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Late Adolescents, Blacks, Hispanic Americans
Coggshall, Elizabeth Learn – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The study of short-"a" (e.g., the vowel in words such as "bat," "bad," "bang," "ban") in New York City English (NYCE) has a long history, and with many different descriptions of this complex system (e.g., Babbitt 1896; Trager 1930; Labov 1966/2006; Cohen 1970; Labov 2007). It is complex due to the…
Descriptors: Phonology, Language Variation, North American English, Grammar
New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. – 1979
This report consists of forty-four tables containing information (by county, district, and sex) on enrollment in and dropouts from New Jersey public elementary and secondary schools. Also presented for each section (enrollment and dropouts) is a summary of all-county figures that carries totals for the State. The racial/ethnic data contained in…
Descriptors: American Indians, Asian Americans, Blacks, Dropout Characteristics
Manni, John L.; And Others – 1980
Legal, professional, and historical issues are examined in the report on minority group representation in special education in New Jersey. The historical and legal background traces the controversy over the use of IQ tests with minority children and notes court rulings citing overrepresentation of minority students in classes for the mildly…
Descriptors: Blacks, Court Litigation, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textPorter, Toni – 1991
In spring and summer of 1991, five focus groups gathered information on the child care choices of welfare mothers and helped organizations participating in the Expanded Child Care Options Demonstration program develop a child care supply that met parents' needs. Three of the focus groups were made up of African-American women, with one of the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Age Differences, Blacks
Vos, Robert; And Others – 1982
Attitudes of eighth graders toward vocational education were measured, and the relationship of these attitudes to high school educational program preference (vocational, general, or college preparatory) was determined. The study was also designed to ascertain differences on the basis of disadvantagement, race, and sex. Subjects were 306 students…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Blacks, College Preparation, Disadvantaged Youth
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. – 1984
The first in a series of five regional fact-gathering committee hearings, this hearing report includes testimony from private and public social agencies in New York, New Jersey, Maine, Massachussetts, and Connecticut. Information and statistics are presented on a wide variety of social problems, including (1) family violence; (2) family planning…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Adolescents, Adults, Blacks
