Toward positive youth development : transforming schools and community programs / / editors, Marybeth Shinn, Hirokazu Yoshikawa.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Shinn, Marybeth.; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xi, 387 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

Changing classrooms -- Building capacity for positive youth development in secondary school classrooms : changing teachers' interactions with students / Robert C. Pianta and Joseph P. Allen -- Changing classroom social settings through attention to norms / David B. Henry -- Classroom settings as targets of intervention and research / Stephanie M. Jones, Joshua L. Brown, and J. Lawrence Aber -- Changing schools -- Schools that actualize high expectations for all youth : theory for setting change and setting creation / Rhona S. Weinstein -- An intervention in progress : pursuing precision in school race talk / Mica Pollock -- Enhancing representation, retention, and achievement of minority students in higher education : a social transformation theory of change / Kenneth I. Maton ... [et al.] -- The school climate for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students / Stephen T. Russell and Jenifer K. McGuire -- Whole-school change / Laura M. Desimone -- Changing community organizations -- Building the capacity of small community-based organizations to better serve youth / Robin Lin Miller, Shannon K.E. Kobes, and Jason C. Forney -- Quality accountability : improving fidelity of broad developmentally focused interventions / Charles Smith and Tom Akiva -- Altering patterns of relationship and participation : youth organizing as a setting-level intervention / Paul W. Speer -- The ethnic system of supplementary education : non-rofit and for-profit institutions in Los Angeles' Chinese immigrant community / Min Zhou -- Changing larger social structures -- Socioeconomic school integration / Richard D. Kahlenberg -- The co-construction of educational reform : the intersection of federal, state, and local contexts / Amanda Datnow -- Using community epidemiologic data to improve social settings : the Communities that care prevention system / Abigail A. Fagan, J. David Hawkins, and Richard F. Catalano -- The youth data archive : integrating data to assess social settings in a societal sector framework / Milbrey McLaughlin and Margaret O'Brien-Strain -- Cross-cutting themes : strategies for measurement and intervention -- Measuring and improving program quality : reliability and statistical power / Andres Martinez and Stephen W. Raudenbush -- Improving youth-serving social settings : intervention goals and strategies for schools, youth programs, and communities / Hirokazu Yoshikawa and Marybeth Shinn.