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Kristin Irwin; Cynthia Velasquez; Elaine Hidalgo – Communique, 2024
With support from a U.S. Department of Education grant, the Portland Public Schools successfully expanded a model program that addresses workforce shortages and disrupts inequities by increasing the number of school psychologists from diverse backgrounds, improving foundational reading skills, increasing multitiered systems of support, and…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Public Schools, School Psychologists, Diversity (Institutional)
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Van Sickle, Jenna; Schuler, Kristen R.; Quinn, Candice; Holcomb, John P.; Carver, Susan D.; Resnick, Andrew; Jackson, Debbie K.; Duffy, Stephen F.; Sridhar, Nigamanth – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2020
Operation STEM (OpSTEM) is an NSF grant-funded program at Cleveland State University to improve retention and graduation among high-risk students seeking STEM degrees by supporting them through early mathematics. OpSTEM focuses on students from underrepresented minority (URM) groups, first-generation college students, and women. The OpSTEM program…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Disproportionate Representation, Minority Group Students, STEM Education
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Biggs, Shirley A.; Musewe, Lucas O.; Harvey, Jean P. – Negro Educational Review, 2014
Our study examines the impact of adult mentoring on Black, under-resourced, urban, middle grade students. First, we explore impact of mentoring on grades earned in the context of a comprehensive program which included one-on-one mentoring and an array of out-of-school enrichment activities. We also examine the nature of mentor-mentee engagement…
Descriptors: Mentors, Academic Achievement, African American Students, Disproportionate Representation