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Clewell, Beatriz Chu; Campbell, Patricia B.; Perlman, Lesley – Urban Institute Press, 2007
"Good Schools in Poor Neighborhoods" contrasts highly effective schools serving urban, low-income, minority youth with their more typical, struggling counterparts. Highlighted are two disparate schools: one serving predominately African American students in a large northeastern city and one serving Latino students in a southwestern urban area.…
Descriptors: African American Students, Neighborhoods, Economically Disadvantaged, Minority Group Children
Cosentino de Cohen, Clemencia; Deterding, Nicole; Clewell, Beatriz Chu – Urban Institute (NJ3), 2005
Using data collected in the 1999-2000 Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS), this report studies the characteristics of schools serving immigrant children at the time of NCLB's passage. As SASS lacks a measure of immigration status among school children, this analysis uses English language proficiency level (or LEP status) as a proxy for immigrant…
Descriptors: Principals, Language Proficiency, Immigration, Limited English Speaking
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Clewell, Beatriz Chu; And Others – Equity and Excellence, 1992
Provides a national perspective on the prevalence and nature of interventions in grades 4 through 8 to increase participation of minority students and females in mathematics and science. In all, 163 programs responded to the request for information. The range and extent of these interventions are described. (SLD)
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Computer Science, Delivery Systems, Elementary Education
Clewell, Beatriz Chu; And Others – 1992
This book provides an in-depth examination of the strategies, structure, and operation of intervention programs for minority and female students in mathematics and sciences in grades 4 through 8. In Part 1, Chapter 1 discusses the barriers to female and minority participation in mathematics and science and the need for intervention. Chapter 2…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affirmative Action, Case Studies, Classroom Techniques
Clewell, Beatriz Chu; Anderson, Bernice – 1991
This review of the literature on women of color in mathematics, science, and engineering helps define the need for a national agenda for equity in these fields sponsored by the Educational Equity Policy Studies Program of the Center for Women Policy Studies, and for a comprehensive research program that examines barriers to the participation of…
Descriptors: Course Selection (Students), Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Engineering
Clewell, Beatriz Chu; Villegas, Ana Maria – 2001
This handbook is a guide to the design of new teacher recruitment programs. It is intended to help new programs make the best possible start in duplicating the success of the Pathways program, which seeks to recruit from three nontraditional pools: paraprofessionals, uncertified teachers, and returned Peace Corps volunteers. Pathways involves:…
Descriptors: Alternative Teacher Certification, Beginning Teacher Induction, College School Cooperation, Diversity (Faculty)