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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...

This project will create a Project STAR public use data file.

What out-of-school activities and extracurricular activities in school work best for which youth? What factors move youth into and out of activities? What processes link youth activity involvement...

To support the investigative reporting capabilities and annual production of up to 250,000 copies of Youth Today.