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Hall, Bryan; O'Neal, Tom – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2016
This paper examines a pilot residential learning community (RLC) project at Indiana University Southeast. The RLC targeted first-generation students who were academically at-risk. The purpose of the project was to see whether the combination of several high-impact educational practices within the context of an RLC would improve 1) student…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, At Risk Students, Success, Residential Programs
Abbott, Daniel J. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Nationally and in Indiana, the cultural mismatch can be seen in special education programs where minority students are overrepresented and most special educators are white (Arnold, 2003; Artiles et.al, 2005; Gaviria-Soto & Castro-Morera, 2005). Teachers in general and special education teachers in particular need to be culturally competent.…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Special Education, Cultural Awareness, Disproportionate Representation