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Towns, Kathryn; Jones, Bruce T. – 1979
A Parents as Resource Program was offered in eight elementary schools in an inner city school system. Approximately 160 parents, mostly mothers, completed a 10-week series of workshops constructed to increase parental self-confidence, to develop awareness of affective childrearing practices and to demonstrate creative use of materials available in…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Communication Skills, Intervention, Parent Attitudes
Kester, Donald – 1993
This instructional guide, one product of a large-scale research project on Jaime Escalante and his Mathematics and Science Program, describes the teaching and motivating strategies that he uses to bring about high academic achievement among poor minority urban youth in Los Angeles (California). The first part of five describes a pilot test in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum Evaluation, Educationally Disadvantaged, High School Students
Lynch, Joanne – 1993
This report presents an evaluation of the International Academy for Bilingual Education and Bicultural Studies, an Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title VII-funded project in its third year of operation in 1992-93. The program provided instructional and support services to 74 Chinese- and English-speaking students in 1 pre-kindergarten, 1…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education Programs, Chinese, Cultural Awareness