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

Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) will partner with a social service agency to provide its staff with training and professional services to help student interns (grades 9–12) in the Garden Apprentice...

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?

This study combines qualitative and quantitative analysis to understand the role of marriage and fertility in the lives of young adults. Specifically, the study investigates the temporal and...

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...

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

What is the impact of class-size reduction?

Can a self-assessment and coaching intervention be implemented with fidelity, assessed with valid and reliable measures of setting-level processes, and show promise to improve after-school programs?

Can a school-based emotional literacy intervention produce setting-level changes in social processes between students and teachers? Will these changes enhance social, emotional, and academic...

Abram Rosenblatt, Ph.D., professor, department of psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, will work with Santa Cruz County’s Probation and Substance Abuse Departments and the New...

David DuBois, Ph.D.,professor, community health sciences, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, will work with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago (BBBSMC) and Big...

Tamera Coyne-Beasley, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor of pediatrics and internal medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will work with National Students Against Violence Everywhere...

Support was given to SRA’s Young Scholars mentoring program.

Support was given to provide the William T. Grant Scholars program with a qualitative consulting service for mixed-method research.

This report will provide a comprehensive analysis of teacher evaluation in American public education.