Understanding Youth Social Settings

How can urban middle schools increase opportunities for English Language Learners (ELLs), specifically focusing on building capacity in the school system to promote these students’ literacy development?

Can a large-scale apprenticeship after-school program for high school students improve positive youth development, marketable job skills, and academic performance, and prevent problem behavior?

How do peers influence social attitudes and behaviors?

These funds support additional analyses for Dr. Weissberg and Dr. Durlak’s meta-analysis of school-based social and emotional learning programs.

In what ways do combined family- and school-based programs positively alter peer networks, consequently lowering youth substance use and delinquency?

How do individual, family, peer, and activity indicators determine Mexican-origin adolescents’ participation in organized out-of-school activities?

How does participation in community-based organizations affect the development and adaptation of immigrant and second-generation youth?

How do young men and women from the inner-city accomplish successful transitions from incarceration to life back in society? As many as one-third of formerly incarcerated young adults will return to jail or prison within several years of their release.

Are school policies and practices associated with racial disparities in suspension and expulsion rates?

What is the impact of class-size reduction?