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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Ecomaps as Visual Tools for Deconstructing Reciprocal Influences: Triage with Disruptive Students at an Alternative School
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Carpenter-Aeby, Tracy; Aeby, Victor G.; Boyd, Jane S. – School Community Journal, 2007
Ecomaps are diagrams that depict an individual or a family within a societal context, demonstrating the energy, supports, and resources necessary to maintain specific relationships. Genograms are family trees that identify emotional relationships and intergenerational family patterns. When combined, practitioners can synthesize the information to…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, Social Systems, Family Life, Family Counseling
Program Evaluation and Replications of School-Based Mental Health Services and Family-Community Interventions with Chronically Disruptive Students
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Carpenter-Aeby, Tracy; Aeby, Victor G. – School Community Journal, 2005
Although outcomes for alternative schools may be mixed, it is generally agreed that counseling, therapy, group work, case management, and family-community involvement have been credited in some effective programs. This study examined program evaluations from 1994-1999 for an alternative school for chronically disruptive students (599 students,…
Descriptors: Health Services, Locus of Control, Nontraditional Education, Grade Point Average
Family-School-Community Interventions for Chronically Disruptive Students: An Evaluation of Outcomes in an Alternative School.
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Carpenter-Aeby, Tracy; Aeby, Victor G. – School Community Journal, 2001
Evaluates the effectiveness of a family-school-community intervention model in an off-campus disciplinary alternative school. Finds positive changes in students' self-esteem and life skills and significant improvement in their attendance and grades while in the program. All except two students were still in school 1 year after leaving the program.…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Community Role, Discipline, Elementary Secondary Education
Comparing Outcomes of an Alternative School Program Offered with and without Intensive Family Involvement.
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Aeby, Victor G.; Manning, Brenda H.; Thyer, Bruce A.; Carpenter-Aeby, Tracy – School Community Journal, 1999
Two cohorts of students attending an alternative school for chronically disruptive youth received either the standard program or the standard program with additional family involvement. The experimental group experienced statistically significant improvements in locus of control, grade point averages, attendance, and reduced dropout rate, relative…
Descriptors: Attendance, Behavior Problems, Comparative Analysis, Dropout Rate