There is increasing concern that American children are not achieving at their full potential. A particular point of risk is early adolescence when American children often view school as less valuable, becoming less engaged as well. Initial research in China does not find such a trend. The goal of the current research was to elucidate why the movement away from school evident in the United State...

This study examines short-term and longitudinal associations between school-based discrimination and mental health, (i.e., self-esteem and depression) and the moderating roles of “preference for American culture” and positive school experiences, for 684 Filipino American adolescents drawn from the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS). Our findings suggest that school-based discrimin...

This study examined the effects of using ACT Composite scores and/or high school averages in making college admission decisions for students from selected racial/ethnic groups. The analyses were based on two samples: The African American/Caucasian American sample consisted of 262,553 students from 43 postsecondary institutions, and the Hispanic/Caucasian American sample consisted of 174,890 stu...

This review assessed the effectiveness of pre-school- and school-based obesity prevention and/or treatment interventions targeting healthy eating, physical activity or obesity in African American children and adolescents. Systematic searches were conducted for English-printed research articles published between January 1980 and March 2013. Retained articles included experimental studies conduct...

The current study used a multidimensional approach to examine developmental trajectories of three dimension of school engagement (school participation, sense of school belonging, and self-regulated learning) from grades 7 to 11 and their relationships to changes in adolescents’ academic outcomes over time. The sample includes 1,148 African American and European American adolescents (52% females...

BACKGROUND This article examines whether school contextual factors, such as referral practices and peer dynamics, contribute to Chinese American students' underrepresentation in school health programs. METHODS Data from the 2007 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (N = 1,744) as well as interviews and focus groups (N = 51) with Chinese American users and nonusers of high school health programs were an...