The goal of this article is to provide a critical analysis of barriers to social inclusion and
integration in schools and propose inclusive educational practices that help connect and …

Considerable strides have been made in the past decade in recognizing the centrality of the
cultural context of schooling to adolescent development. In this review, adopting a …

EPIDEMIOLOGY and disadvantages in hiring, wages, promotions, and job termination
because of their weight. Since then, there has been an increase in survey research, large …

BACKGROUND: There is increasing evidence for the association between physical activity,
cardiovascular fitness, fatness, and cognitive function during childhood and adolescence …

Although research and scholarship on weight-based stigma have increased substantially in
recent years, the disproportionate degree of bias experienced by fat women has received …

Adolescent societies—whether arising from weak, short-term classroom friendships or from
close, long-term friendships—exhibit various levels of network clustering, segregation, and …

Background This review provides a historical overview of physical activity interventions
designed by American educators and an evaluation of research that has assessed the …

An epidemic of obesity has been develo** in virtually all OECD countries over the last 30
years. Existing evidence provides a strong suggestion that such an epidemic has affected …

We examined evidence for friendship influences on children's physical activity (PA) through
systematic searches of online databases in May 2012. We identified 106 studies (25 …

Obesity is a health condition, but its consequences extend far beyond the realm of health. To
illuminate an important route by which the experience of obesity can filter into the status …