Sentences with phrase «including ethnic studies»

Finally, the report provides a list of new courses beginning in fall of this year, including Ethnic studies, Kinesiology, Carpentry, and Engineering.

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In this edited volume, McClosky has included a vast number of case studies written by teachers of their experiences using drama, simulation techniques, filmmaking, literature related to social values and ethnic issues, and so forth.

Another question raised was whether the study included adequate representation of racial and ethnic minority groups.

Study limitations include that these groups were mostly non-Hispanic white individuals and the results may not be generalizable to other racial / ethnic groups.

They said the key messages from the study were that stroke is a highly preventable disease globally, regardless of age and sex; that the relative importance of modifiable risk factors means there should be development of regional or ethnic - specific primary prevention programs, and that additional research on stroke risk factors is needed for countries and ethnic groups not included in INTERSTROKE.

Agricultural economist Marshall Burke and his colleagues conducted a meta analysis of 60 previous studies that looked at climatic events and their link to human conflict, including the fall of the Mayan Empire, civil conflicts in Africa, ethnic clashes in India, road rage in the U.S. and even the type of pitches thrown during Major League Baseball games when temperatures rise.

The study looked to see if ethnic and racial disparities in breastfeeding could be explained by differences in the use of formula in hospitals, family history of breastfeeding, mother's belief that «breast is best»; and demographic measures including poverty, education and relationship status.

Newly selected mutations in genes controlling sperm production show up in every ethnic group he and his team have studied; those genes may affect characteristics including abundance, motility, and viability.

The study only included white people, so the results can not be generalized to other races or ethnic groups.

«This is the first study to represent so many regions of the world, including the majority of the world's major ethnic groups.»

Requires the study of ethnic and racial groups to be included as part of each school corporation's high school United States history course.

Part of the first Collaborative, Camino Nuevo laid the groundwork of a new vision and strategy for their organization that supports innovation, and they have built out new concepts for piloting, including K - 12 ethnic studies.

The report includes what some districts are doing to close the achievement gap for Latino students and cited LA Unified as an example of how using a «culturally inclusive curriculum» by making ethnic studies a graduation requirement helps engage Latino students.

This bill, supported in testimony by the California Teachers Association, if passed, would «require instruction (emphasis mine) in social sciences to also include a study of the role and contributions of Native Americans, African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, European Americans, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans, persons with disabilities, and other ethnic and cultural groups, to the development of California and the United States.»

They include successfully changing policy to enforce the implementation of five Ethnic Studies classes, the addition of three more guidance counselors, and the elimination of a policy that required students to go to detention for being late during their class time.

Her research interests include Latina / o youth's multilingual and multiliterate repertoires, adolescent literacies, im / migration, emergent bilingual learners, critical pedagogy, youth activism, and high school Ethnic Studies.

Although efforts have been made to specifically improve graduation rates among subgroups that regularly have lower achievement, including English learners, those in the foster care system or low - income youth, the American Institutes» study released last week suggests districts should also target subgroups within racial and ethnic subgroups where significant cultural variety is common.

Her work includes a study on perceptions of racial / ethnic bias for the Rhode Island Supreme Court and a project on school - based truancy courts for the Rhode Island Family Court.

This scholarly collection offers journal, magazine, and newspaper articles in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, etc. as well as 180,000 searchable images.

Her research areas include Critical Racial and Ethnic Studies, Feminist Theory, Critical Legal Theory, Political Theory, Moral Philosophy, Postcolonial Studies, and Latin American & Caribbean Studies.

Shana serves on numerous boards and organizing collectives including Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative, INCITE, Critical Ethnic Studies Association, Gallery of the Streets, and PATIOS.

Most contemporary studies include participants from various socioeconomic classes and ethnic groups.

Erkut's research on children and adolescents included a research program on raising confident and competent girls, Puerto Rican youth development, the effects of sports on girls» and boys» development and sexual behavior, evaluating youth - serving agencies» science and math programs for girls and children of color, and a study of racial / ethnic identification among adolescents from mixed - ancestry backgrounds.

The purpose of this online nationwide survey study is to understand how different types of media (i.e. social, technological, televised) impact young people's sense of social identities, including racial / ethnic, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, political attitudes, and civic engagement.

Her major research interests include the study of academic motivation and social development in children of color, particularly in school contexts that vary in racial / ethnic diversity.

Limitations of the study include the self - report nature of assessing the youths» drug use and family problems, as well as the questionable generalizability of the sample, which was low - income, urban, and consisted primarily of males from ethnic minorities.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This study examined parenting practices as mediators of change in child conduct problems in ethnic minority families participating in group - based Parent Management Training - Oregon Model (PMTO)[now called Parenting Through Change (PTC)-RSB-.

Limitations include a limited postintervention follow - up, no control group, high dropout rate for study participants, and minimal ethnic representation among Asians and Native Americans.

Limitations include concerns about the generalizability of the study due to the limited racial / ethnic diversity and the lack of a no treatment or waitlist control group to further examine to decline in parental anxiety over time.

To ensure that the study included a sizable proportion of racial / ethnic minorities and low - income respondents for more accurate subgroup analyses, there was also an oversampling of US telephone exchanges that had a population of 70 % or more of African American, Hispanic, or low - income households.

We addressed some of the prior criticisms of EBT research by ensuring that (1) participants and study context were clinically representative, (2) there were no systematic differences in clinician competence across conditions (ie, all clinicians were randomly assigned), and (3) the sample would include the ethnic diversity that critics have found insufficient in the randomized controlled trial literature.17 - 20 Accordingly, we obtained samples from outpatient treatment programs that served the general public across a broad demographic and income range, we included only youths whose families sought treatment (ie, no recruiting or advertising), all treatment was provided by professional clinicians employed in the participating programs, and all treatment was provided in those programs (ie, not in university laboratory clinics).

One review (Barlow et al., 2004) of controlled trials and qualitative studies of parenting programmes with and for parents from minority ethnic groups included formal parenting programmes, culturally specific programmes (such as the Effective Black Parenting Programmes) and versions of formal parenting programmes [e.g. Systematic Training for Effective Parenting (STEP), PET and Confident Parenting] adapted to different minority ethnic groups.