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Jenkins, Joseph R.; Jenkins, Linda M. – 1981
The monograph focuses on tutoring as a means of improving achievement in handicapped and disadvantaged students. Chapter 1 looks at some of the factors which detract from instructional time, and points out some of the benefits of tutoring which are supported by research. Peer or cross age tutoring is discussed in Chapter 2 in terms of academic…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Disabilities, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Secondary Education
Berger, Sandra L. – 1990
This digest explores the concept of mentoring with gifted students and offers guidelines on its implementation. The literature on mentoring is reviewed, noting the maturing effect of mentor relationships and the particular value of mentors for disadvantaged students and for females. Among six guidelines offered are: decide what (not whom) the…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Secondary Education, Females, Gifted
Ascher, Carol – 1988
Planned mentoring programs, which purposefully link disadvantaged youth with someone older and more experienced, have become a popular means of providing adolescents with adult contacts, counselors, and role models. Mentoring programs vary widely in their objectives, and in the duration, frequency, and intensity of the planned relationship. The…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Child Relationship, Counseling, Disadvantaged Youth
Ianni, Francis A. J. – 1992
Rather than viewing youth as an isolated and alienated subculture, it is more useful to view the needs of youth as largely determined by where and how they live, and to recognize that they differ from one another just as adults do. Professionals and volunteers in community youth programs need to understand how the youth they work with experience…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Programs, Context Effect, Cultural Awareness
Ianni, Francis A. J. – 1993
This paper discusses the challenges of effectively matching the needs of youth populations with program services. An introduction reviews some broad issues that shape the discussion, namely whether youth is a period integrated into the course of life or a separatist culture. A second section proposes an ecological approach to youth services, which…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Community Organizations, Community Programs, Community Role
Fenske, Robert H.; Geranios, Christine A.; Keller, Jonathan E.; Moore, David E. – 1997
This digest summarizes a larger document of the same title which examines early intervention programs providing services and resources to encourage low-income/minority youth to finish high school and enter college. It notes provisions of federal law which encourage such programs and the unifying mission of the National Early Intervention…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Attendance, College School Cooperation, Disadvantaged Youth
Fenske, Robert H.; Geranios, Christine A.; Keller, Jonathan E.; Moore, David E. – 1997
This report addresses issues related to the increasing growth of early intervention programs to encourage high school graduation and college attendance among students from low-income and minority groups. It first presents a brief review of the societal goals of equality for the nation's education system. It then defines the programs "early…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Attendance, College School Cooperation, Disadvantaged Youth
Levin, Rebekah A., Ed. – 1994
This book provides a picture of comprehensive children's services from a global, theoretical perspective, as well as a more practical guide to the potential roles for participating service providers and the structuring of such programs. Following an introduction, the volume is organized into 14 chapters: (1) "Moving from Cooperation to…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Ancillary School Services, Cooperative Planning, Cultural Pluralism