Toward Positive Youth Development : Transforming Schools and Community Programs

✍ Scribed by Marybeth Shinn; Hirokazu Yoshikawa

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 400
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

1. Introduction, Marybeth Shinn and Hirokazu Yoshikawa. Part 1: Changing Classrooms. 2. Building Capacity for Positive Youth Development in Secondary School Classrooms: Changing Teachers' Interactions with Students, Robert C. Pianta and Joseph P. Allen. 3. Changing Classroom Social Settings Through Attention to Norms, David B. Henry. 4. Classroom Settings as Targets of Intervention and Research, Stephanie M. Jones, Joshua L. Brown, and J. Lawrence Aber. Part 2: Changing Schools. 5. Schools that Actualize High Expectations for All Youth Theory for Setting Change and Setting Creating, Rhona S. Weinstein. 6. An Intervention in Progress: Pursuing Precision in School Race Talk, Mica Pollock. 7. Enhancing Representation, Retention and Achievement of Minority Students in Higher Education: A Social Transformation Theory of Change, Kenneth I. Maton, Freeman A. Hrabowski, Metin Ozdemir, and Harriette Wimms. 8. The School Climate for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Students, Stephen T. Russell and Jenifer K. McGuire. 9. Whole-School Change, Laura M. Desimone. Part 3: Changing Community Organizations. 10. Building the Capacity of Small Community-Based Organizations to Better Serve Youth, Robin Lin Miller, Shannon K. E. Kobes, and Jason C. Forney. 11. Quality Accountability: Improving Fidelity of Broad Developmentally Focused Interventions, Charles Smith and Tom Akiva. 12. Altering Patterns of Relationships and Participation: Organizing as a Setting-Level Intervention, Paul W. Speer. 13. The Ethnic System of Supplementary Education: Non-profit and For-profit Institutions in Los Angeles' Chinese Immigrant Community, Min Zhou. Part 4: Changing Larger Social Structures. 14. Socioeconomic School Integration, Richard D. Kahlenberg. 15. The Co-Construction of Educational Reform: The Intersection of Federal, State, and Local Contexts, Amanda Datnow. 16. Using Community Epidemiologic Data to Improve Social Settings: The Communities that Care Prevention System, Abigail A. Fagan, J. David Hawkins, and Richard F. Catalano. 17. The Youth Data Archive: Integrating Data to Assess Social Settings in a Societal Sector Framework, Milbrey McLaughlin and Margaret O'Brien-Strain. Part 5. Cross-Cutting Themes: Strategies for Measurement and Intervention. 18. Measuring and Improving Program Quality: Reliability and Statistical Power, Andres Martinez and Stephen W. Raudenbush. 19. Improving Youth-Serving Social Settings: Intervention Strategies for Schools, Youth Programs, and Communities, Hirokazu Yoskikawa and Marybeth Shinn

✦ Subjects

Classroom environment -- United States. ; School environment -- United States. ; Youth development -- United States. ; Educational sociology -- United States.