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Southern, W. Thomas – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2001
This interview with Howard Spicker discusses his early leadership in the Head Start programs of the mid-1960s, his establishment of the Indiana University College for Gifted and Talented Youth, and his development of alternative procedures, instrumentation, and programs for gifted students from special populations. His work on Project SPRING is…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Wanner, Raymond E. – 1973
This report on some efforts being made in France to improve the education of the socially and culturally disadvantaged is presented for such value as it may have to American educational planners in their search for solution to this difficult problem. For the purposes of this study the term "socially and culturally handicapped or…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Demography, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth
Blechman, Elaine – 1991
A social learning model of the mentoring process is presented that features bicultural competence and effective communication. The model suggests how mentors can cooperate with families and teachers in the promotion of high-risk minority children's bicultural competence. Mentoring is a term increasingly applied to describe relationships between…
Descriptors: Adults, At Risk Persons, Communication (Thought Transfer), Competence
Wiener, Susan J.; Mincy, Ronald B. – 1993
The Urban Institute organized a workshop to receive the reactions of experts to a model for helping underclass youth, the Mentor, Peer Group, and Incentive (MPI) Model. This model uses the three components of mentors, peer groups, and incentives to improve the life chances of adolescent males in socially distressed neighborhoods. Workshop…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Black Youth, Community Programs
Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. Div. for Management and Planning Services. – 1975
This program is stated to have been designed as a new state-administered categorical aid program, with the purpose of making available additional state educational resources to students who have or are likely to have low levels of achievement, especially in relation to social and economic factors. Chapters include an introduction which describes…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth
Ogbu, John U.; Wilson, John, Jr. – 1990
This paper examines the mentoring of African American youth, critiques the accepted theoretical basis for most programs, and offers an alternative framework. Following an introduction in section 1, section 2 describes conventional mentoring and contains two case studies of programs in the San Francisco Bay Area (California). A key finding of the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Black Culture, Black Youth
Asian Youth Substance Abuse Project, San Francisco, CA. – 1990
This paper summarizes the March 1990 conference of the Asian Youth Substance Abuse Project (AYSAP). The conference's goals were to increase the knowledge and awareness of the San Francisco (California) community regarding substance abuse problems among Asian Americans, establish a network of providers committed to interagency coordination of…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Asian Americans, Conferences, Disadvantaged Youth
Torrance, E. Paul; Goff, Kathy; Satterfield, Neil B. – 1998
This guide offers guidance for mentoring programs and relationships serving gifted and/or talented students from multicultural and/or disadvantaged environments. After an introductory chapter which defines the mentor concept, Chapter 2 considers the mentoring relationship, racial/cultural differences, characteristics of economically disadvantaged…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Creativity, Cultural Differences, Disadvantaged Youth
Dianda, Marcella R. – 1991
The Southwest Regional Laboratory (SWRL) is adapting Success for All, a prominent early-elementary school program for at-risk minority youths, for use with disadvantaged limited English proficient students whose primary language is Spanish. The Johns Hopkins University Center for Research on Effective Schooling for Disadvantaged Students is…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, English (Second Language)