From 2020-2022, seven national foundations collectively supported the out-of-school time (OST) field to withstand, recover, reopen and re-imagine, through the acute phases of the COVID pandemic and the ongoing impact. The funders pooled their resources through Grantmakers for Education (EdFunders), providing grants to national intermediaries…

This chapter describes how sustained mentoring together with rigorous collaborative learning and community building contributed to successful mathematical research and individual growth in the Applied Mathematical Sciences Summer Institute (AMSSI), a program that focused on women, underrepresented minorities, and individuals from small teaching…

Background: Many psychiatric residents have traditionally received little-or-no training in cross cultural approaches to psychiatric training and research. Method: The Dartmouth-Howard Collaboration summer school training program had a 5-year grant to explore approaches to enhancing understanding of cultural factors in mental health treatment and…

This article describes the Dallas-based Camp Thunderbird, an enrichment program that brought together minority students in special education and students from general education for a summer of physical activity and the arts. Among the camp participants were students who functioned at a high level in the areas of autism spectrum disorders, mental…

Teach For America (TFA) and the Teaching Fellows programs are an important and growing source of teachers of hard-to-staff subjects in high-poverty schools, but comprehensive evidence of their effectiveness has been limited. This report presents findings from the first large-scale random assignment study of secondary math teachers from these…

Each day, children spend more hours outside of school than in it. Yet education reformers have principally targeted the classroom, paying relatively little attention to what goes on during out-of-school hours. Now, however, reformers are beginning to realize that closing the stubborn achievement gaps separating low-income minority students from…

The decreasing number of U.S. citizens with advanced degrees in the mathematical sciences is a growing concern. Also of concern is the small number of advanced degrees in the sciences going to African Americans, Latinos, and women. Several Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) programs have been developed to address these issues. In this…

The American Economists Association's (AEA's) summer and minority scholarship program at Duke University is an academic pipeline program that has been in operation for 33 years. The eight-week summer experience prepares its participants for the rigors of first- and second-year study in master's and doctorate programs in economics. The program also…

Describes an annual summer workshop at the University of Central Florida (UCF) that seeks to interest minority high school students in journalism, to encourage them to attend college, and to acquaint them with UCF. Describes some of the difficulties and some of the solutions tried. (TJ)

About 50 students from six Boston area high schools participated in the summer Massachusetts Pre-College Engineering Program (MassPep) at the Northeastern University campus in Boston. The program is designed to guide talented minority students toward college and technical fields. A description of the program is provided. (JN)

This interview, with an administrator and an evaluator of the Summer Career Institute of Gifted Minority Students and Females held at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, addresses the topics of making career choices, prejudice of school personnel toward gifted minority students, identification procedures, cultural influences, and the role of…

This article describes how Rutgers University's Office for Diversity and Academic Success in the Sciences (ODASIS) provides step-by-step guidance to help aspiring minority physicians fulfill their dreams. ODASIS works jointly with undergraduate admissions officials at Rutgers to identify all incoming freshman students from underrepresented and…

Describes a program at the University of Central Florida at Orlando that acquaints minority group high school students with career opportunities in mass media and gives them a taste of the college-level training required. (GT)

Describes a summer job placement program which recruits, trains, and counsels minority youth with the goal of helping them find and maintain meaningful employment. (PCB)

Introduces the two-week Summer Science and Math Experience program developed for high school minority students which provides the opportunity for access to a laptop computer for personal use during both the summer and the academic year. (Author/YDS)