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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.

Is Making Meaning, an elementary school reading comprehension program, effective?

To support an after-school enrichment program for promising, disadvantaged youth in the Bronx and Upper Manhattan.

Stereotypical depictions of immigrant Mexicans focusing on school dropout and academic failure belie Mexican American youths’ varied pathways into adulthood. Why do some immigrant Mexican youth...