Sentences with phrase «for underrepresented youth»

He also has been a teacher, editor, and research assistant for the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University, coeditor of Double the Numbers: Increasing Postsecondary Credentials for Underrepresented Youth (Harvard Education Press) and Minding the Gap: Why Integrating High School with College Makes Sense and How to Do It (Harvard Education Press).

She is an editor of three JFF books: Double the Numbers: Increasing Postsecondary Credentials for Underrepresented Youth, Minding the Gap: Why Integrating High School with College Makes Sense and How to Do It, and most recently, Anytime, Anywhere: Student - Centered Learning for Schools and Teachers, all four published by the Harvard Education Press.

Established to provide opportunities for underrepresented youth in Silicon Valley to practice creative arts, The Studio connects young people to professional resources, networks, and hands - on learning in filmmaking, visual arts, music, and storytelling.

He is coeditor of two JFF books: Double the Numbers: Increasing Postsecondary Credentials for Underrepresented Youth (Harvard Education Press) and Minding the Gap: Why Integrating High School with College Makes Sense and How to Do It (Harvard Education Press).

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In the domain of computer science, for example, nonprofits have sprung up across the U.S. to teach coding to underrepresented youth.

Because black and Hispanic youngsters are indeed «underrepresented» in the entering classes of the SHSAT high schools when compared with the youth demographics of New York City — and there's no denying that they are, just as white and especially Asian youngsters are «overrepresented» — the NAACP asserts that the test must be discriminatory and therefore the federal Office for Civil Rights should make the city stop using it.

This symposium serves to highlight five core themes emerging in the out - of - school time (OST) field: positive youth development as a key frame for child and youth engagement and learning both in school and beyond; the role of mentors and authentic contexts in supporting diverse populations, in particular, traditionally underserved and underrepresented children and youth; the need for meaningful professional development of youth - serving professionals; and the rise of social - emotional skills as a vehicle for 21st century learning.

Our mission is to provide access and preparation for talented underrepresented youth to achieve success in college preparatory high schools and higher education.

In this forum, co-sponsored by the American Youth Policy Forum and the National Center for Postsecondary Research, panelists reviewed the latest research on the effectiveness of dual enrollment programs (particularly for student populations that long have been underrepresented in higher

The Crissy Field Center — located in the heart of the Golden Gate National Parks, one of the world's largest national parks in an urban setting — is an internationally recognized model for reaching out to underrepresented groups (such as urban youth) who have not traditionally visited national parks.