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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"disadvantaged youth"”.
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A categorically annotated bibliography and synthesized report of research findings concerning the elementary education of disadvantaged youth
There is no abstract available for this dissertation.
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Dropout prevention services offered to at-risk, disadvantaged students by vocational and school counselors
… by guidance personnel to prevent at-risk youth from dropping out of school. The effectiveness of the counselor when dealing with the problems of at-risk, disadvantaged youth can be directly attributed to the counselor's knowledge of a students relationship with academics and the school …
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Imagining and Navigating the Future: Educational Aspirations and Agency of Economically Disadvantaged Ethiopian Secondary School Students
In Ethiopia, economically disadvantaged students are not equally represented in the education system, in terms of enrollment and attendance. A high drop out and low completion rates of these groups widen the educational inequalities in the country. The government of Ethiopia has sought to allocate …
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Děti a mladiství ve školských výchovných zařízeních v sociálně-psychologickém a legislativním kontextu
… This care, for morally disturbed and socially disadvantaged youth, has a tradition of almost two centuries in our country, during which it has undergone complex development and verified decades of proven improvement. Today we can state that until recently this system followed the traditional …
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A formative evaluation of a vocational skills development programme
… and the expected outcomes. The programme targets disadvantaged youth selected from rural communities and provides them with vocational development knowledge and skills to enhance their prospects for employment. The programme theory was depicted as a Logic Model from information extracted during …
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Job Corps to 1973
… affective, remedial, and vocational training for disadvantaged youth throughout the country. Job Corps was the first attempt in the United States to establish and operate a national program of residential vocational education. Legislation and plans for the program were drafted in a very short …
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Schooling Habitus: An auto/ethnographic study of music education's entanglements with cultural hegemony
… and cultural hegemony. In recent years, youth orchestras have been strongly promoted as a catalyst for social justice. Advocates of such programmes argue that the benefits of youth orchestra participation should be made available to all, regardless of cultural or socioeconomic …
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Hope Is the Ticket to Life: Insights From Disadvantaged African American Youth
… especially those termed "at-risk" or "disadvantaged." Hope and compassion are positive qualities inner-city African American youth can possess, and further research on these constructs with this population is needed. This exploratory, mixed methods study included both quantitative …
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Psychobiological Mechanisms of Aggression in Youth
… to predict aggressive behavior in youth. A sample of 68 male youth, aged 7 to 17, were recruited from two agencies in southwest Virginia serving disadvantaged youth. They completed self-report measures on their childhood environment, aggressive and delinquent behaviors, as well as …
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The way we see it: an analysis of economically disadvantaged young people's experiences and perceptions of social and economic health in their semi-rural community
… study investigates how socially and economically disadvantaged young people, living in a semi-rural, post-industrial Atlantic Canadian community, experience and perceive social and economic health -- defined as participants' sense of comfort and security that their social and economic needs are, …
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Inside the 'black box' : a critical interpretive perspective on the internal dynamics of schooling at Learn to Live and their impact on youths' at risk social-educational status
… chances. Thus, they often find themselves in a disadvantaged position within society. In light of this observation, the theme of youth at risk has been much discussed in South Africa for the past three decades. This study focuses on a group of especially disadvantaged adolescents, who do not …
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"Youth Workers - Just "Adult Somebodies" in the Lives of Young People?" : An inquiry into Youth Workers' perspective on Professional Youth Work
Youth work in Ireland is evolving from a primarily voluntary activity, engaging young people in out-of-school leisure time activities, to one where there is increasing state involvement, along with a process of professionalisation which now sees some 1400 people employed as youth workers (NYCI …
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Implications of the Youth employment and demonstration projects act, PL 95-93: an application of policy analysis techniques
… the response to the problem. To this end, the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act (YEDPA) an amendment to the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) was chosen for study. The study was conducted in four separate but inter-related stages. In the first stage, historical …
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An exploratory study of predictive relationships between personality characteristics of teachers of disadvantaged students and principals' ratings of teacher effectiveness
… and years of teaching experience of teachers of disadvantaged youth and principals' ratings of the teachers' effectiveness. Personality characteristics were also correlated with the environmental location of the teacher's current teaching assignment to determine if personality was a factor in …
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Three Essays on U.S. Social Policy’s Impact on the Human Capital Development of Young Adults At-Risk of Poverty
… data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979) and a difference-in-differences model, this work re-examines the impact of the Social Security Student Benefits Program (SSSBP) on post-secondary educational attainment, a topic first studied by Dynarski (2003). By exploiting a larger …
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Assessing the Efficacy of the Talent Search Program
The current study assessed the efficacy of one TRIO program, Talent Search. This study compared the postsecondary enrollment of Talent Search participants and non participants. The comparison was conducted on a sample of 284 low-income college ready seniors from three south central Kentucky high …