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Perez, Pedro – 1999
The purpose of this study was to develop a mentor program for Latino students in the College Discovery Program at Borough of Manhattan Community College. The mentor program was intended to address some of the needs experienced by Latino students and to improve retention rates. This paper describes the process involved in developing the mentor…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Community Colleges, Counseling, Hispanic Americans
Farrar, Elizabeth B. – 1985
Within the purview of a Chapter One Basic Program, this practicum initiated a 3-month intervention in oral language development for minority group first grade students with language differences and delayed speech who attended Gove Elementary School, Belle Glade, Florida, Goals for students included extension of mean length of utterance (MLU), and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Compensatory Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Elementary School Students
Bermudez, Lydia V. – 1989
The practicum report describes a program which established an Early Childhood Special Education Resource Center to serve the parents and teachers of deaf and hearing-impaired preschool children attending an integrated laboratory school associated with the University of Puerto Rico. Program goals included promoting parent-teacher interaction to…
Descriptors: Deafness, Early Intervention, Emotional Development, Hearing Impairments
Download full textWilliams, Fred D. – 1993
Jackson State Community College (JSCC) is a state supported institution in rural West Tennessee under federal mandate to increase the proportion of black enrollments to reflect the proportion of blacks in the college's service area. In response to the mandate and to declining enrollments in general, a project was undertaken to develop a…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission (School), Black Students, Community Colleges
Lawson, Stanley G. – 1991
This proposal describes the organization and implementation of a "World Steel Drum Ensemble" as a strategy to solve the problems of low minority academic achievement, high minority discipline incidents, and minority isolationism. The drum ensemble studied and performed music from Caribbean, Hispanic, and African heritages in a middle…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, African Culture, Cultural Awareness, Discipline
Bigelow, Rita-Anne Z. – 1993
This practicum was designed and implemented to reduce the underrepresentation of minority students in gifted programs, and to help minority students improve their academic achievement in Westmoreland County, Virginia. The practicum involved examining the gifted student nomination/identification process to see if instruments or procedures were…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academic Achievement, Black Students, Cultural Differences
