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Promoting Academic Resilience in DEIS Schools
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Fenwick, Amalia; Kinsella, Billy; Harford, Judith – Irish Educational Studies, 2022
This article reports on baseline data gathered as part of an intervention project which aims to enhance academic performance, encourage retention and broaden the educational and career aspirations of senior cycle students in schools which serve socio-economically disadvantaged communities. The experiences and perceptions of 405 students attending…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Intervention, Academic Achievement, School Holding Power
The Shadow Education System: Private Tutoring and Its Implications for Planners. Fundamentals of Educational Planning Series, Number 61.
Bray, Mark – 1999
Private tutoring is a phenomenon that has escaped the attention of researchers, educational planners, and decision makers. Very little is known about its scope, scale, and effects on pupils' achievement and equality of opportunities. Because of its size in a number of countries, and due to it nature--that of a private service oriented at improving…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Ethics and the Obstruction of Social Justice for Maori and Pasifika (Pacific Islands) Students in Tertiary Institutions in Aotearoa (New Zealand)
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Nakhid, Camille – Race, Ethnicity & Education, 2006
The student diversity in universities in Aotearoa (New Zealand) challenges these institutions to attain more equitable outcomes particularly for indigenous groups and ethnic minorities. In New Zealand, current Government policies favour strategies aimed at increasing the academic achievement of Maori and Pasifika communities and offer financial…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Justice, Ethics, Ethnic Groups
Students Teaching Students: A Model for Service and Study.
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Dillon, Peter W.; Van Riper, Robyn – Equity and Excellence in Education, 1993
Describes the community service learning (CSL) activities of the Students Teaching Students program at LEAD USA in Williamstown (Massachusetts), a program that lets students set their own learning goals and receive college credit for CSL. The Berkshire Energy Project through Williams College, one model of this program, is described. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Faculty, College Students, Equal Education
New York State Programs of Postsecondary Opportunity, 1977-78 and 1978-79.
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Bureau of Higher Education Opportunity Programs. – 1980
A continuing objective of New York State has been to provide equal access to postsecondary educational opportunity. To meet this objective the State has provided resources for special programs in postsecondary institutions for persons who have been academically and educationally disadvantaged. The four separate programs that serve the needs of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, College Programs, Counseling Services
Black Students in Higher Education: Conditions and Experience in the 1970s.
Thomas, Gail E., Ed. – 1981
The conditions and experiences of black students in higher education in the 1970s are addressed in 27 essays. The essays are categorized in terms of: history and profile; admissions and access; enrollment, academic experience, and career choice; black higher educational survival; recruitment and retention; and structural policies. Among the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Academic Persistence, Access to Education