Successful North Carolina Middle School Principals' Visions

Support Among Middle School and High School Students for Smoke-free Policies, North Carolina, 2009

INTRODUCTION In the United States, little is known about youth attitudes toward smoke-free policies. Our research measures North Carolina middle school and high school students' opinions about smoke-free policies in indoor and outdoor public places as well as private places such as vehicles, homes, and work environments. METHODS Data come from the 2009 North Carolina Youth Tobacco Survey. The...

Phonetic Variation and Speaker Agency: Mexicana Identity in a North Carolina Middle School

Opportunities for extracurricular physical activity in North Carolina middle schools.

BACKGROUND This study's purpose was to assess the opportunities for North Carolina adolescents to be physically active in extracurricular middle school environments and to compare opportunities across community types. METHODS Data were analyzed based on the results of an electronic questionnaire distributed to a sample of 431 schools with a response rate of 75.4% (N = 325). RESULTS Nearly a...

Public school choice and integration evidence from Durham, North Carolina.

Using evidence from Durham, North Carolina, we examine the impact of school choice programs on racial and class-based segregation across schools. Reasonable assumptions about the distribution of preferences over race, class, and school characteristics suggest that the segregating choices of students from advantaged backgrounds are likely to outweigh any integrating choices by disadvantaged stud...

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Dentistry.