Students who drop out of community college are expensive. Over a five-year period, federal, state, and local authorities spent about $4 billion on community college students who began as first-time, full-time, degree-seeking students but did not return for a second year of school (Schneider...
The main objective of this article was to identify the characteristics of a school that effectively becomes a learning organization and the need to improve it in the political context of the learning organization. To reveal the theoretical and empirical bases of the article...
Culture, trauma, and wellness: a comparison of heterosexual and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and two-spirit native americans. In a community-based sample of urban American Indian and Alaska Native adults, 25 lesbian, gay, bisexual, and two-spirit participants were compared with 15... Kimberly,F,Ba...
- 《Journal of Community Psychology》 被引量: 242发表: 2010年 Analyzing Teachers' Professional Interactions in a School as Social Capital: A Social Network Approach Background/Context: Researchers have proposed a number of lenses for analyzing teacher professional communities in recent years. These ...
The impact of a principal or superintendent on a school district is pivotal to student achievement. In fact, “excellent school administrators have a profound impact on student learning, teaching excellence and overall school performance,” according to theNational Association of State Boards of ...
Scores were not influenced by long term school-based instruction. Abstract In many cognitive developmental studies, young children ( < 6 years) fail to understand that changing the appearance of a person, object, or animal does not change its underlying reality. They appear to believe that a ca...
Current social, legal and institutional factors impede a safe working environment for sex workers and their clients. OBJECTIVES: To describe characteristics and sexual behaviour of female, male and transgender sex workers, and assess their risk factors for unprotected sex. METHODS:Repeat cross-sectional...
Men who were married or had had first intercourse at an older age were likely to have a lower total number of partners than others (-.297 and -.369, respectively). CONCLUSIONS: School and community programs should provide culturally appropriate and accessible activities for black youth, and ...
This paper describes Project FIT, a collaboration between the public school system, local health systems, physicians, neighborhood associations, businesses, faith-based leaders, community agencies and university researchers to develop a multi-faceted app
A strong partnership between a school and the surrounding community leads to school success. Schools can be more successful with community involvement and... ML Hogue 被引量: 2发表: 2012年 Exploring participatory scenario and storyline building for sustainable urban futures – the case of China in...