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Peer reviewedBurrell, Brenda; Wood, Susan J.; Pikes, Theodore; Holliday, Connie – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2001
Discussion of mentorship between students with emotional/behavioral disorders (EBD) considers justifications for such mentoring relationships, guidelines for establishing a mentorship program, and an account of implementation of a mentorship project involving African American males with EBD (four mentors (ages 13-15) and five proteges (ages…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Black Students, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education
Download full textSherman, Lloyd R.; Grannis, Joseph C. – 1978
The experiences of black and Hispanic students from low income families who spent their senior year in this program is reported and evaluated. The Secondary Education Through Health (SETH) program was designed to prepare interested inner city high school seniors to enter medical and health careers and to give them an understanding of environmental…
Descriptors: Black Students, Career Exploration, Environmental Education, Health Education
Keeton, Morris; Clagett, Craig A.; Engleberg, Isa N. – 1998
In an effort to cross boundaries and make connections between theory, research, and academic planning, Prince George's Community College in Maryland (PGCC) and the University of Maryland University College's Institute for Research on Adults in Higher Education (IRAHE) developed a partnership using national and institutional research to link theory…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Community Colleges, Cultural Differences
Brooks, Pauline E. – 1987
The intent of this paper is to synthesize portions of the African American dialect literature that have relevance for designing, implementing, and evaluating school-based language programs for African American dialect speakers, and also to suggest guidelines for developing such programs. Because the issues reflect divergency and controversy, it is…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Influences, Black Students, Cooperative Planning
National Alliance of Black School Educators, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1987
The National Alliance of Black School Educators' (NABSE) Educational Development Plan (EDP) was initiated in 1985 as a four-year effort to implement the findings and recommendations of NABSE's report of the Task Force on Black Academic and Cultural Excellence, "Saving the African American Child" (1984). The EDP has the following major…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Achievement, Black Culture, Black Education
LEGG, OTTO – 1963
THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS COMPARATIVE STUDY WAS TO EVALUATE THE RELATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF TENNESSEE VOCATIONAL AGRICULTURE PROGRAMS IN FOUR CATEGORIES -- (1) PILOT SCHOOLS, (2) LIKE-PILOT SCHOOLS OR SCHOOLS RESEMBLING PILOT SCHOOLS, (3) STUDENT TEACHING CENTERS, AND (4) NEGRO SCHOOLS. THE RANDOM SAMPLE INCLUDED 800 STUDENTS FROM 20 SCHOOLS DIVIDED…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Agricultural Education, Agriculture, Black Students
Chicago Univ., IL. – 1972
The University of Chicago's Teacher Training Conference provided for an examination of opinion and research from the field of adult basic education; practice in skill development and application; an experience of an urban community; and encounters which centered on personal, political, and educational ideology. This report describes the planning…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Black Students, Conferences
Glassman, Phyllis; Roelle, Robert J. – 1990
Beginning in 1981, the Bay Shore (New York) School District initiated comprehensive changes in its instructional program. The process, which involved long range planning for 1982-1987 and 1987-1992, used focus groups, survey data, community input, and school-based feedback. Several of the overall goals of these plans are concerned with assuring…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Curriculum Development, Disadvantaged Youth
Johnson, Roosevelt – 1974
This 12-chapter book contains contributions from selected authors concentrating on a comprehensive analysis of career education for the black American. The treatise takes career education to task for its "white foundations of educational data." Chapter titles and authors are: Black Agenda for Career Education, by Roosevelt Johnson; Career…
Descriptors: Black Education, Black Employment, Black Students, Career Education
Swanson, Julie D. – 1995
This final report describes the activities of Project Search (Selection Enrichment and Acceleration of Rural Children), a project funded by a federal Javits grant to address the identification of young gifted and talented students from underrepresented populations and to develop a model for providing appropriate services for young, potentially…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Black Students, Classroom Techniques, Creativity
PDF pending restorationFranks, David D.; And Others – 1976
Five parochial open elementary schools were compared with two traditional parochial schools to determine their effects on student attitudes toward self and learning, as well as the development of educational and other cognitive skills. All schools but one were located in the inner-city. Males and females, blacks and whites, as well as various…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Attitude Measures, Black Students
Bain, Josie G., Ed.; Herman, Joan L., Ed. – 1987
The conference reported in this document sought to do the following: (1) focus attention on the problem of underachieving minority students, and issue a call for action to improve their educational achievement; (2) promote dialogue on promising practices aimed at solving the problem; (3) foster collaboration on solutions among practitioners,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, American Indian Students, Asian American Students, Black Students
