We developed a 9-week after-school, small group, activities-based intervention focused on enhancing youth's abilities to imagine themselves as successful adults and connecting these future imagines to current school involvement. We describe and evaluate this programme comparing three cohorts of urban African American middle school students (n=62 experimental, n=146 control), controlling for sex...

In this paper, I study the timing of high school dropout decisions using data from High School and Beyond. I propose a Bayesian proportional hazard analysis framework that takes into account the specification of piecewise constant baseline hazard, the time-varying covariate of dropout eligibility, and individual, school, and state level random effects in the dropout hazard. I find that students...

BACKGROUND The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends treating all school children at regular intervals with deworming drugs in areas where helminth infection is common. The WHO state this will improve nutritional status, haemoglobin, and cognition and thus will improve health, intellect, and school attendance. Consequently, it is claimed that school performance will improve, child mortalit...

• Motivation. Early adolescents may also experience a decline in indicators of academic motivation, such as attention in class, school attendance, and selfperception. Also seen are age-related increases in negative motivational and behavioral characteristics, such as learned helplessness in response to failure, focus on self-evaluation rather than on mastering tasks, truancy, and school dropout.

Requiring immunization for school attendance greatly reduced morbidity and mortality in children over the past seven decades but is now highly controversial. This two-part exercise on the implementation of a "personal belief" exemption allows students to examine constitutional questions as well as legislation and regulations as they affect public health and school officials.