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Transition to High School
Nield, Ruth Curran and Christopher C. Weiss. 1999. The Philadelphia Longitudinal Study (PELS): Report on the Transition to High School in the School District of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, PA. The Philadelphia Education Fund.
Weiss, Christopher C. 1999. “The Effects of Student Engagement in the Transition to High School.” Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania.
Weiss, Christopher C. 2001. “Difficult Starts: Turbulence in the School Year and Its Impact on Urban Students’ Achievement.” American Journal of Education, 109(2): 196-227.
Weiss, Christopher C. 2003. “The neglected importance of connections: The role of student engagement in the transition to high school.” Presented at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management APPAM), Washington, DC.
Weiss, Christopher C. 2004. “Re-examining the effects of middle schools: A comparison of eighth grade schooling forms on the transition to high school.” Presented at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM), Atlanta, Georgia.
Weiss, Christopher C. “Perceptions of Education and Transition to High School.”
Weiss, Christopher C. and E.C. Baker-Smith. 2007. “Eighth grade school form and resilience in the transition to high school: A comparison of middle schools and K-8 schools.” Presented at the annual meetings of the American Educational Finance Association, Baltimore, MD.
High School Dropout
Boccanfuso, Christopher. 2005. “The Effects Of Interactive Pedagogy During The Ninth Grade On High School Dropout.” Masters Thesis, University of Maryland.
Neild, Ruth Curran. 2003. "The Effects of Magnet Schools on Neighborhood High Schools." Presented at the American Sociological Association (ASA).
Neild, Ruth Curran, Scott Stoner-Eby and Frank F. Furstenberg. “Connecting Entrance and Departure: The Transition to Ninth Grade and High School Dropout.”
Neild, Ruth Curran, Scott Stoner-Eby and Frank F. Furstenberg. 2002. “High School Dropout: The Ninth Grade Connection.” Presented at the American Sociological Association (ASA).
Stoner-Eby, Scott. “School Engagement as a Multi-faceted Phenomenon: How Student Perceptions Predict High School Drop-Out in a longitudinal urban sample.”
Stoner-Eby, Scott. 2002. “Three Essays on Adolescent Behavior in an Urban High School Context: Black-White differences in School Experiences and Smoking; A Multifaceted Approach to School Engagement and Dropout; Black-White Differences in Evidence of Opposition to School.” Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania.
School Choice/School Types
Neild, Ruth Curran. 1999. “Same Difference: School Choice and Educational Access in an Urban School District.” Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania.
Weiss, Christopher C. and Lindsay B. Kipnes. 2006. “Re-examining middle school effects: A comparison of middle grades students in middle schools and K-8 schools.” American Journal of Education, 112 (2): 239-272.
Weiss, Christopher C. “The Neglected Importance of Connections: The Role of Student Engagement in the Transition to High School.” Journal of Research on Adolescence.
Teacher Quality
Neild, Ruth Curran, Sheela Kennedy and Jennifer McKnight. 2001. “Teacher Qualifications in Philadelphia: A Multilevel Analysis of the Effects of Teacher Certification on High School Achievement.” Presented at the American Sociological Association (ASA).
Transition to college and adulthood
Benson, Janel. 2006. “Adulthood in Motion: A Longitudinal Examination of Urban Youths’ Transition to Adulthood.” Unpublished Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania.
Benson, Janel. 2002. “Friendship Networks and College Integration: The Struggle of Urban Students.” Presented to the American Sociological Association (ASA).
Benson, Janel and Adena Galinsky. 2003. “The Pathways of PELS Students Beyond High School.”
Benson, Janel, Christopher Weiss and Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson. 2007. “Shaping Pathways to Adulthood: The Primary Importance of the Transition out of Secondary School.” Under review.
Benson, Janel and Frank F. Furstenberg. 2003. “Subjective Perceptions of Adulthood among Urban Youth: Are Demographic Transitions Still Relevant?” The Network on Transitions to Adulthood, Research Network Working Paper No. 3.
Buyse, Jutta. 2002. “Self-Esteem and the Transition from School to Work or College: an Analysis with the Philadelphia Educational Longitudinal Study.”
Furstenberg, Frank F. and David Neumark. 2005. "School-to-Career and Post-Secondary Education: Evidence from the Philadelphia Educational Longitudinal Study." IZA Discussion Paper No. 1552; Public Policy Institute of California Working Paper No. 2004-14.
Herzog, Liza and Michael Tierney. 2006. “Access and Retention: Post-Secondary Activities of Young Adults in the School District of Philadelphia.” Presented to the American Education Research Association (AERA).
McKnight, Jennifer, Kimberly Torres and Ruth Curran-Neild. 2002. “Reassessing the Big-Fish-Little-Pond Effect: Examining Academic Self-Concept and Scholastic Achievement among Urban High School Students as They Transition to College.” Presented to the American Sociological Association (ASA).
McKnight, Jennifer. 1998. “The College Access Cohort: Report on the Ninth Grade Cohort, 1996-1997.”
McKnight, Jennifer and Ruth Curran-Neild. 2000. “The College Access Cohort: A Report on the Second and Third Years.”
McKnight, Jennifer. 2002. “The First College Access Cohort: PELS Results for the Senior Year and Beyond.”
Richardson, Joe. ”Qualitative Update Report: PELS Non-College Sample.”
Parental Involvement
Kennedy, Sheela. 2001. "Parenting in Context: The Joint Impact of Parental Involvement and Schools on Educational Outcomes."
Kennedy, Sheela. 2000. “The Formation of Parent Networks and their Impact on Student Outcomes.”
Armando, Tina. 2002. “Lighting the Way: Relationships that Make a Difference in the Lives of Working Class Young Adults.” Presented at the East-West Conference.
Armando, Tina. “Collective Mentoring: A Closer Look at Guiding Relationships.”
Benson, Janel and Frank F. Furstenberg. 2007. “Entry into Adulthood: Are Adult Role Transitions Meaningful Markers of Adult Identity?” Advances in Life Course Research: Constructing Adulthood: Agency and Subjectivity in the Life Course, 11: 199-224. (chapter in a book)
Benson, Janel and Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson. “Adolescent Family Context and Adult Identity Formation.” Under review.
Kurz, Demie. 2002. “Caring for Teenage Children.” Journal of Family Issues, 23(6): 748-767.
Malone, Matthew R. 2006. "Guiding Youth to Careers: Do Mentoring Programs Benefit Urban Youth?" CUREJ: College Undergraduate Research Electronic Journal, University of Pennsylvania.
Weiss, Christopher C. “Analysis of Parental Predictors in Determining the Achievement & Problem Behavior of a Child Using PELS.”
Benson, Janel. Forthcoming. “Make New Friends but Keep the Old: Peers and the Transition to College.” Advances in Life Course Research: Interpersonal Relations across the Life Course, 12.
Gay and Lesbian
Gastic, B. 2007. “Urban students’ attitudes toward gay and lesbian students.” Paper presented as part of Teaching Across Boundaries panel series sponsored by the Center for Collaborative Research and Practice in Teacher Education, University of Pennsylvania and MetroMath: The Center for Mathematics in America's Cities.
Osborne, D., and W. Wagner. 2005. “Extracurricular activities and homophobia: Exploring the structural factors that foster antigay attitudes.” Paper presented at the 76th annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Portland, OR.
Osborne, D. and W. Wagner. 2006. “Sports and homophobia.” Paper presented at the 77th annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Hollywood, CA.
Osborne, D. and W. Wagner. 2007. “Exploring the relationship between homophobia and participation in core sports for high school students.” Sociological Perspectives, v 50, n 4 p597-613.
Wagner, W. and D. Osborne. “Assessing the impact of extracurricular activities on homophobia: Do sports and non-sports activities differ?” Unpublished Manuscript.
Reproductive Health
Cederbaum, J. A., S. C. Marcus and M.K. Hutchinson. (in press). “Impact of
knowing someone with HIV/AIDS on parent-child communication and HIV risk
behaviors.” Journal of HIV/AIDS Prevention in Children and Youth, 8(2).
Galinsky, Adena. 2005. “Condom Availability in Schools: A Follow-up Evaluation of Philadelphia's Health Resource Centers.” Presented at the Public Policy Analysis (PPA) conference.
Green, Lynn. 2001. “Beyond Risk: Sex, Power and the Urban Girl.” Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania.
Nothaft, Amanda. 2002. “Teen Sexual Partnerships and Contraceptive Use.” Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania.
Smoking and Substance AbuseStoner-Eby, Scott. “Ethnic differences in adolescent cigarette smoking: A longitudinal study of urban high school students.”
Stoner-Eby, Scott."Ethnic differences and black-white differences in early adolescent smoking among urban high school students."
West, Emily M. 2005. “Family and School-related Factors Predicting Arrest in Adolescence and Early Adulthood.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, PA.
Weiss, Christopher C. and Baker-Smith, E.C. 2007. “Urban students’ risks and academic consequences of incarceration.” Presented at the annual meetings of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.
Wildsmith, Elizabeth M., Ian Bennett, and Amy Johnson. 2007. “Literacy, School Connectedness, and Teenage Childbearing.” Presented at the American Sociological Association (ASA).