Early intervention programs : opening the door to higher education / by Robert H. Fenske ... [et al.] ; prepared by ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education, the George Washington University, in cooperation with ASHE, Association for the Study of Higher Education.
Imprint
Washington, DC : Graduate School of Education and Human Development, George Washington University, [1997]
Includes bibliographical references (p. 93-101) and index.
Contents
Background -- Early intervention and academic outreach defined -- Why intervene? -- Private initiatives -- The I Have a Dream foundation -- A Better Chance -- EQUITY 2000 -- American Indian Science and Engineering Society -- Project WINGS -- School-college collaboration -- The traditional separation between K-12 and higher education -- The K-16 movement -- Federal and state supported early intervention -- Early federal support -- Federal and state cost-sharing programs -- State implementation of NEISP -- Other state programs -- Academic outreach programs -- Two surveys of institutional academic outreach programs -- Two institutional examples of academic outreach -- Community college academic outreach -- Program evaluation -- Conclusions and recommendations -- Appendix: a sample of institutional outreach programs.
