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.