Given the uneven track record of adjunctive social–emotional learning (SEL) programs and waning effects by middle and high school, we...

Background Adolescent mental health issues are a major public health concern, highlighted by the US Surgeon General as a crisis....

Teaching is a challenging profession, and teachers experience stress due to the difficulties associated with shifting educational...

Adolescents, particularly early adolescents, are vulnerable to stress created by negative peer interactions. Stress, in turn, can lead to...

Despite Brown vs. Board of Education, prejudice still exists in the American school system. These attitudes can give rise to negative...

John Hattie has ranked hundreds of educational interventions in terms of their effects on student achievement. The jigsaw method (a form...

One of the major conclusive results of the research on learning in formal learning settings of the past decades is that cooperative...

Seventy-five 2nd graders were randomly assigned to cooperative learning groups in which oral discussion was structured or unstructured or...

The effectiveness of a cooperative learning group structure and direct instruction in promoting social communication of delinquent female...

Although researchers have developed prevention programs to reduce bullying, the results are mixed, and this may be due to a degree of...

We tested a prevention approach aimed at reducing growth in alcohol use in middle school using four waves (2 years) of data from a...

Emphasizing the developmental need for positive peer relationships, in this study the authors tested a social-contextual view of the...

As children reach adolescence, peer groups gain special power to influence their behavior, and young people tend to adapt their behavior...