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Many adolescent students who are learning English and are identified with learning disabilities have difficulties with both reading comprehension and English language proficiency. In the secondary grades, these students have fewer opportunities to improve their reading comprehension and to learn from a range of disciplinary texts. To address these challenges,...
English learners with learning disabilities have well-documented difficulties comprehending text. This study examined the effects of an intensive reading intervention, Reading Intervention for Adolescents, on reading outcomes (word reading, vocabulary, and comprehension) for ninth-grade English learners with learning disabilities (n = 85). In Reading Intervention for Adolescents, students received instruction in advanced...
This study tested the effects of Check & Connect, an intervention designed to improve students’ engagement with school, with 358 high school English learners with reading comprehension difficulties. The intervention did not have a significant impact on participants’ self-reported engagement, attendance, behavior referrals, or course...
This study examined the effects of Reading Intervention for Adolescents, a 2-year extensive reading intervention targeting current and former English learners identified as struggling readers based on their performance on the state accountability assessment. Students who enrolled at three participating urban high schools were randomly assigned to the Reading Intervention...
Self-control and psychopathy are prominent general theories of antisociality that, although present in a very similar type of individual, have not often been studied in tandem, and few studies have conducted a head-to-head test of their association with serious delinquency and youth violence. Using a near census of institutionalized delinquents...
Objectives. To examine trends in and correlates of fighting and violence among youths from the three largest racial/ethnic groups in the United States. Methods. The authors derived race/ethnicity-specific prevalence estimates for fighting, group fighting, and attacks with intent to harm from the National Survey on Drug Use...
This presentation reports the results from multiple randomized controlled trials that provide evidence on how to design, implement, and enhance intensive reading interventions while addressing the unique academic needs of adolescent English learners.
Bullying is a serious sociodevelopmental issue associated with a range of short- and long-term problems among youth who are bullied. Although race and ethnicity have been studied, less attention has been paid to examining prevalence and correlates of bullying victimization among immigrant youth. Using data from the Health Behavior...
School disengagement is associated with poor academic achievement, dropout, and risk behaviors such as truancy, delinquency, and substance use. Despite empirical research identifying risk correlates of school disengagement across the ecology, it is unclear from which domain these correlates arise. To redress this issue, the current study used intraclass correlation...
The aim of this study was to examine the impact of breastfeeding practices on the growth trajectories of children’s cognitive development. The authors used data from the Child Development Supplement of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics with variables on presence and duration of breastfeeding and standardized...
This study examined the association between household food insecurity (insufficient access to adequate and nutritious food) and trajectories of externalising and internalising behavior problems in children from kindergarten to fifth grade, using longitudinal data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study—Kindergarten Cohort, a nationally representative study in the United...
This study examined the distribution of substance use, mental health, and criminal behavior among dropouts derived from a nationally representative sample of 18- to 25-year-old (n = 19,312) emerging adults in the United States. Using public-use data from the 2010 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, this study employed multiple logistic...
This study investigated whether the nurturing hypothesis—that breastfeeding serves as a proxy for family socioeconomic characteristics and parenting behaviors—accounts for the association of breastfeeding with children's academic abilities. Data used were from the Child Development Supplement of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, which followed...
The popularity, demand, and increased federal and private funding for after-school programs have resulted in a marked increase in after-school programs over the past 2 decades. After-school programs are used to prevent adverse outcomes, decrease risks, or improve functioning with at-risk youth in several areas, including academic achievement, crime and behavioral...
Nearly 2 million school-age children in United States are currently homeschooled. This study seeks to examine homeschooled adolescents' attitudes toward, access to, and use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs compared to their nonhomeschooled peers. The study uses data between 2002 and 2013 from the National Survey on Drug Use...
Objective: This study examined whether and to what extent researchers addressed intervention fidelity in research of after-school programs serving at-risk students. Method: Systematic review procedures were used to search, retrieve, select, and analyze studies. Fifty-five intervention studies were assessed. Results: Of the 55 studies examined, only 55% reported well-defined intervention procedures, 42% used...
These 10 lesson plans were developed and used in Project GOAL dropout prevention group problem-solving sessions. They provide adolescents with strategies for recognizing and addressing common problems during the high school years. Each lesson's zip file contains a plan for the session, handouts that can be duplicated and used with...
Juvenile Justice Education Institute and Southern Conference on Corrections (August 2010) Jacob Williams: Intensive Reading Instruction for Youth in Juvenile Correction Institutions
Dropout Prevention Institute and School Attendance Symposium (October 2010) Jacob Williams, Jade Wexler, Nicole Pyle: Preventing School Dropout With Secondary Students: Project GOAL
Council for Exceptional Children (April 2011) Jade Wexler, Sharon Vaughn, Greg Roberts, Nicole Pyle, Anna-Mária Fall, Jacob Williams, Leah Sayre: Preventing School Dropout With Secondary Students
Pacific Coast Research Conference (February 2010) Jade Wexler: On the Front Lines: A Multivocal Synthesis of Dropout Prevention
Council for Exceptional Children (April 2010) Steve Ciullo, Jade Wexler: On the Front Lines: A Multivocal Synthesis of Dropout Prevention
Pacific Coast Research Conference (February 2011) Jade Wexler, Sharon Vaughn, Greg Roberts, Nicole Pyle, Anna-Mária Fall, Jacob Williams: Preventing School Dropout With Secondary Students: Year 1
Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (March 2011) Jade Wexler, Sharon Vaughn, Greg Roberts, Nicole Pyle, Anna-Mária Fall: Preventing School Dropout With Secondary Students: The Implementation of an Individualized Reading and Dropout Prevention Intervention
This booklet summarizes the information from: Dropout Prevention: A Practice Guide, available on the Institute of Education Sciences web site at http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc.
This booklet summarizes the information from: Dropout Prevention: A Practice Guide, available on the Institute of Education Sciences web site at http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc.
This booklet summarizes the information from: Helping Students Navigate the Path to College: What High Schools Can Do, available on the Institute of Education Sciences Web site at http://ies.ed.gov/ncee and https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/Publication.
MCPER has created two tools to measure the fidelity of implementation for Project GOAL, a dropout prevention intervention: The Dropout Prevention Intervention Fidelity Measurement Form for daily interventions measures the fidelity of implementation of intervention during daily interactions with students at risk. The Dropout Prevention...
The Dropout Prevention Intervention Implementation Guide provides practitioners and administrators with a framework of an evidence-based dropout prevention intervention to implement a research-based program, Project GOAL. The guide also provides an overview of Project GOAL and explains the importance of each intervention component. Examples illustrate how the intervention might...
Compared to high school graduates, adolescents who drop out of school are more likely to have a range of negative outcomes, including lower verbal capacities; however, the true nature of this association is not well-understood. Dropping out of school could have an important effect on reducing verbal skills, or the...
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