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Harvey, Maria Luisa Alvarez – College Board Review, 1987
Seven years and 645 students since its inception, the Honors Program at Jackson State University has helped raise the ACT and SAT average scores of its student body by attracting better prepared students formerly lost to more affluent white institutions. (MLW)
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Higher Education, Honors Curriculum, Models
Thome, David – College Board Review, 1995
A Milwaukee (Wisconsin) program to improve its public school education with the help of faculty from three universities (University of Wisconsin, Marquette University, and Milwaukee School of Engineering) is described. The program, EQUITY 2000, aims to bring systemic change to entire school districts by eliminating tracking and raising standards…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Change Strategies, College School Cooperation, Educational Change
Ender, Steven C.; Wiley, Byron A.; Pagano, Charles – College Board Review, 1998
The Philadelphia Partnership is a Philadelphia School District (Pennsylvania) program, sponsored by the state higher education system and designed to increase the number of low-income and minority students in comprehensive, neighborhood magnet schools who attend college and graduate. A hundred sophomores are selected annually to participate in the…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Access to Education, College Bound Students, College Preparation
