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Welch, Olga M.; Hodges, Carolyn R. – 1997
Project EXCEL, developed from a 2-year pilot study, provided college enrichment in reading, writing, and foreign languages for rising sophomores and sophomores in two inner-city high schools. One school had a predominantly black student body; the other had a student body that was 40% black. This study focused on the sources of equality and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Adolescents, Black Students
Peer reviewedLevine, Daniel U. – Journal of Negro Education, 1994
Examines general instructional strategies and specific intervention programs that are frequently discussed for their potential for improving education for African American students and that have a strong research base and appear particularly promising. Prerequisites for effective implementation of innovative approaches are discussed. Effective…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Role, Black Students, Educational Innovation
Woo, Annie – 1998
Project Da Da Kidogo is an innovative and culturally specific program based on the African proverb "It takes an entire village to raise a child." The program provides a wide range of services to meet the academic, social, cultural, and recreational needs of the young African American women in the community. The program focuses on peer…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Black Students, Counseling, Cultural Awareness
Download full textSwain-Cade McCoullum, Valarie – 1994
A review of the programs and policies to support the retention and nurturing of minority faculty members and students at the University of Pennsylvania leads to a number of recommendations to expand minority group representation in student and faculty ranks. These include (1) establishing departmental incentives for minority faculty recruitment,…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Black Literature, Black Students, Black Studies
Peer reviewedFord, Donna Y. – Journal of Negro Education, 1995
Suggests ways to desegregate education programs for the gifted and to redress inequities in gifted education. The usefulness of contemporary definitions of giftedness, theories of intelligence, and assessment practices in identifying gifted students are discussed. Retaining African Americans in gifted programs is also considered. (SLD)
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academically Gifted, Access to Education, Black Students
Cogan, John J.; And Others – CURA Reporter, 1994
This report is the result of a 2-year study of three ethnic specific schools in Minneapolis and St. Paul (Minnesota). Key informants and public policy makers were interviewed during the first year of the study. In the second year, the parents and teachers at the three schools were both surveyed and interviewed. In all three schools, a sense of…
Descriptors: American Indians, Black Students, Community Involvement, Cultural Awareness
Strickland, Dorothy S., Ed.; Cooper, Eric J., Ed. – 1987
This book comprises papers on effectively educating black children. The foreword is by U.S. Representative Augustus F. Hawkins; the introduction is by Ernest L. Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Section I, "School Policy: Formation and Implementation," includes the following papers: (1) "Revisiting…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Black Youth, Educational Policy
