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Shouse, Roger C.; Sun, Jinai – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2013
This article presents a case study examining the demise of a high school Mandarin language program in a school district that appeared to offer an exceptionally friendly habitat for its survival. Though members of the school board majority who voted against funding the program offered rational explanations for their decision (e.g., insufficient…
Descriptors: High Schools, Mandarin Chinese, Second Language Programs, Program Termination
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Meijers, Frans – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2008
Between 1998 and 2002 an estimated 250 mentoring programmes were started in Dutch secondary vocational education in order to decrease motivational problems and drop-out rates, especially among youngsters from ethnic minorities. Currently there are only two schools in secondary vocational education that include mentoring as part and parcel of their…
Descriptors: Mentors, Vocational Education, Comprehensive Guidance, Educational Counseling