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Emert, Toby – Intercultural Education, 2013
This article describes a five-week summer literacy program designed for a group of 70 multilingual refugee boys resettled from their home countries in Africa and Asia to a city in the Southeastern USA. The students attended local public schools but struggled to experience academic success in the traditional classroom. The summer program addressed…
Descriptors: Films, Computer Software, Literacy, Summer Programs
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Pahlke, Erin; Bigler, Rebecca S.; Green, Vanessa A. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2010
To examine the consequences of learning about gender discrimination, early adolescents (n = 121, aged 10-14) were randomly assigned to receive either (a) standard biographical lessons about historical figures (standard condition) or (b) nearly identical lessons that included information about gender discrimination (discrimination condition).…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Gender Discrimination, Occupational Aspiration, Control Groups
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Bishop, Penny A.; Allen-Malley, Garet – Middle School Journal (J3), 2006
In this article, the authors describe an effort to engage preservice teachers in examining their own stories of early adolescence to instill in them a heightened awareness of the age group they teach. Here, they examine the use of memoir as a means to help preservice teachers discover the needs of middle level students, and consider the…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Preservice Teachers, Middle Schools, Consciousness Raising