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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Urban minority"”.
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Closing the Opportunity Gap for Low-Income Urban Minority Students in Turnaround Schools
… racist policies that plague our low-income minority students, we have to remain diligent and innovative in our attempt to provide our low-income minority students, as early as pre-kindergarten, access to opportunities that will ultimately prepare them for post-secondary success. This study …
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An Examination of Urban, Minority Parents’ Perceptions of Barriers Faced in Being Involved in School-Based Events in Early Childhood Education
… study examined the barriers that parents in urban, minority communities faced when participating in campus-provided activities designed to enhance early childhood education. While parental involvement is widely recognized as a critical predictor of academic success, a significant disparity …
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Culture clash: Making the case for a new paradigm in police cultural training
… exposure to the "oppositional" culture of the urban, minority poor. Given the current popularity of the Community Oriented Policing paradigm---with its emphasis on positive police/community relations---current police hiring and training practices handicap police agencies in their efforts to …
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Increasing Urban Students’ Knowledge of the College Admissions Process
… need for college admissions advising for urban, minority, or low income students. Urban high school students typically are ill-prepared and uninformed of some of the key components in the college admissions process such as choosing a college, considering academic programs of study, …
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Assertiveness during condom negotiation among high risk late adolescent/emerging adult couples: The role of relational uncertainty
Many urban minority youth are at high risk for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). While consistent condom use remains the most effective intervention for preventing transmission of HIV and other STDs between sexual partners, low levels of assertive communication between romantic …
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Empowering High School Students to Develop Leadership Skills and Increase Student and School Engagement
… the developmental leadership experiences of urban minority students at Aesculapian High School in New Jersey. The study involved a learning community of 20 members from the National Honor Society and five faculty members who served as mentors. The purpose of the study was to determine what …
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Professionalisation or polarisation? : economic restructuring and changes in Cape Town's labour market
… decline in blue-collar work on unskilledethnic urban minority groups were also discussed. Again, using population census data, it wasshown that the Coloured population had dominated manufacturing employment. Therefore, it wasconcluded that the decline in manufacturing employment would most …
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White Students in Urban Schools: The Unheard Voice in the Achievement Gap
… the academic performance of White students in urban settings, relative to Minority peers, and investigates structural variables that might exacerbate or attenuate differences. The investigation is motivated by and extends qualitative work investigating the experiences of middle school students …
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Using Hip Hop to Explore Minority Youths' Critical Consciousness of the Food System
… Americans and farming. Further, the lack of urban participation within the food system has resulted in little knowledge of how food is produced or understanding of environmental impacts of food and fiber production. The only participation has been the consumption of food. This study indicated …
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The utility of two autism screening instruments in an urban low-income minority population
… has not yet been tested in a predominantly urban low-income minority population with lower education levels and high immigrant/English as second language prevalence. Additionally, current research suggests that children with lower socioeconomic status and children in ethnic minority groups …