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Dr. Nicholson will work within the Massachusetts Department of Social Services (DSS) and the Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law. Her focus will be on mental health and child welfare.

Dr. Yowell will work for the National Writing Project to learn about staff development in urban schools. She will also work directly with the Superintendent of Chicago’s public schools on education...

To what extent are grandparents involved with their grandchildren, how does this involvement change during adolescence, and what are the implications of grandparent involvement for youth?

This project addresses several issues related to adolescent development in neighborhood contexts.

This project explores relationships between religion and self-image, educational/career aspirations, and educational achievement in youth.

This project involves a series of studies testing a model of the well-documented ethnic achievement gap between Black and Latino students on the one hand and White and Asian students on the other.

This project tracks the development of one-to-one mentoring relationships and explores how these relationships are related to youth outcomes.

Does an intensive reading program based on direct teaching of metacognitive skills and cooperative learning improve the literacy skills of young adolescents, particularly those who are at risk?

To support a project to continue secondary data analysis of existing data from the Australian Twin Registry and also national United States data from Add Health.