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Download full textStaus, Nancy L.; Falk, John H.; Penuel, William; Dierking, Lynn; Wyld, Jennifer; Bailey, Deborah – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2020
To better understand STEM interest development during adolescence in an urban community, we examined how "STEM Interested" youth differed from disinterested youth and how interest changed over time from age 11/12 to 12/13. We surveyed youth to measure interest in four components of STEM, used cluster analysis to categorize youth based on…
Descriptors: Urban Youth, STEM Education, Adolescents, Gender Differences
Center for Promise, 2013
This work is part of a larger study ["Navigating and Negotiating Pathways for Success: A Thematic Analysis of the Life Experiences of Urban Youth and Their Caregivers"] of how communities come together to support young people, and how young people and their families navigate and negotiate those communities to succeed academically and…
Descriptors: Urban Youth, Experience, Caregivers, Interviews
Brownell, Joseph C. – 1971
This report covers a six-month sabbatical travel study of urban 4-H programs in 30 United States cities. The purpose of the study was to search for 4-H programs and methods which were being used successfully with urban boys and which might be adapted for use in other urban situations. Interviews with professional 4-H personnel, aides, and leaders…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Extension Agents, Extension Education, Field Studies
De Jung, John E. – 1988
Reducing absences is the most readily available strategy that high schools have for reducing the number of dropouts. A sample of approximately 2,000 students who entered three Oregon urban high schools in the Fall of 1983 or 1984 was studied in order to establish criteria for identifying students who were at-risk of not graduating. The group was…
Descriptors: Attendance, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Research, Dropouts
SEXTON, PATRICIA CAYO
IN THIS STUDY OF EXPERIMENTAL AND DEMONSTRATION BASIS EDUCATION PROJECTS FOR DISADVANTAGED YOUTHS, VISITS WERE MADE TO THE JOB UPGRADING PROJECT (NORTH RICHMOND, CALIFORNIA), THE MAYOR'S YOUTH EMPLOYMENT PROJECT (DETROIT), THE LANE COUNTY YOUTH PROJECT (EUGENE, OREGON), JOB OPPORTUNITIES, THROUGH BETTER SKILLS (CHICAGO), THE YMCA…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Audiovisual Aids, Blacks, Class Size
