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Nesset, Valerie – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2015
Introduction: As part of a larger study in 2006 of the information-seeking behaviour of third-grade students in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, a model of their information-seeking behaviour was developed. To further improve the model, an extensive examination of the literature into information-seeking behaviour and information literacy was conducted…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Information Seeking, Literacy Education
Grachan, Bart – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Community colleges are disproportionally over-enrolled with both low income students and students of color, while four-year institutions are under-enrolled with the same groups. The vast majority of these students enter the community college with a goal of transferring to the four-year institutions they were unable to access from high school, yet…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Mixed Methods Research, Urban Universities, Outreach Programs
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Jackson, Iesha; Sealey-Ruiz, Yolanda; Watson, Wanda – Urban Education, 2014
Although mentoring programs can produce positive outcomes for youth, more research is needed that offers an account of how Black and Latino male mentors and mentees experience mentoring. This phenomenological study highlights the voices of a mentor and 14 Black and Latino males who are part of the Umoja Network for Young Men (UMOJA) an all-male,…
Descriptors: Mentors, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Males
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Catalano, Amy – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2014
This article describes a study in which seven students with diverse disabilities participated in a one-credit online library research course which had been adapted to be accessible using the best practices literature on distance education for students with special needs. Students provided feedback on the design of the course and participated in…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Special Needs Students, Educational Improvement, Qualitative Research
McDaniel, Marla; Simms, Margaret C.; Monson, William; de Leon, Erwin – Urban Institute, 2015
Knowing the economic challenges young fathers without postsecondary education face in providing for their families, New York City's Young Men's Initiative launched a fatherhood program housed in LaGuardia Community College in spring 2012. The CUNY Fatherhood Academy (CFA) aims to connect young fathers to academic and employment opportunities while…
Descriptors: Fathers, Urban Areas, Parent Education, Community Colleges
McDaniel, Marla; Simms, Margaret C.; Monson, William; de Leon, Erwin – Urban Institute, 2015
Knowing the economic challenges young fathers without postsecondary education face in providing for their families, New York City's Young Men's Initiative launched a fatherhood program housed in LaGuardia Community College in spring 2012. The CUNY Fatherhood Academy (CFA) aims to connect young fathers to academic and employment opportunities while…
Descriptors: Fathers, Urban Areas, Parent Education, Community Colleges
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Colarossi, Lisa; Silver, Ellen Johnson; Dean, Randa; Perez, Amanda; Rivera, Angelic – American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2014
The authors present the feasibility and acceptability of a parent sexuality education program led by peer educators in community settings. They also report the results of an outcome evaluation with 71 parents who were randomized to the intervention or a control group and surveyed one month prior to and six months after the four-week intervention.…
Descriptors: Role Models, Parent Education, Peer Teaching, Sex Education
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Hoyle, John R.; Torres, Mario S., Jr. – Planning and Changing, 2008
In the report entitled "Educating School Leaders," Arthur Levine (2005) criticizes leadership preparation programs as "inadequate to appalling," citing, among other issues, the proliferation of off campus programming, the weakening of standards, and an unwillingness to engage in any measure of "systematic…
Descriptors: Correlation, Leadership Training, Educational Quality, Program Effectiveness