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Staudt, Denise – 1995
Mentoring is being embraced by many schools as a way to fill gaps in the lives of children classified as "at-risk." Several lines of research indicate that mentoring programs encouraging positive adult relationships with these students provide the support needed to help these children reach their full potential. Through a collaborative…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, College Students, Elementary Education, High Risk Students
Allen, Camille A. – 1996
A major crisis facing urban education is the inability of predominantly white, middle-class college students to deal with the realities of the urban primary school. A program that brings education majors into the urban school is described. The idea of partnership is the guiding principle of this program, in which college students, local teachers…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, College Students, Education Majors, Higher Education
Tartter, Vivien C. – 1996
In each of 3 years, 20 City College of New York undergraduates from New York City public inner city school backgrounds read to and mentored individual second graders in a Harlem public school in a program supported by the Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE). Supporting academic experience aimed to…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, College School Cooperation, College Students, Elementary School Students
Wolpert, Gloria; Fitzpatrick, Corine – 2001
This paper describes a pilot mentoring/tutoring program which paired undergraduate and graduate students with homeless, at-risk, urban elementary students. The project addressed students' poor school performance and disparities in access to technology for minority and disadvantaged students. It purchased computer software and established a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitude Change, College School Cooperation, College Students