Student-Led Conferences and Minority Student Achievement

The plan is comprised of 5 basic steps; understanding the importance of the parent teacher conferences, how to prepare for parent/teacher conferences, the invitation of both mother and father to a parent/teacher conference, bringing the student along for the parent teacher-conference, and moving towards a quality and productive parent/teacher conference. ... However, a well-conducted conference will move beyond grades or problems that the student may be experiencing. ... After the conference, make sure you stay in touch with the teacher to follow-up on the students" success. ... •...

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Passion Conferences are an annual spiritual awakening of 60,000 college students with Jesus as the centerpiece. These three-day conferences aim to create followers of the #JesusMovement, a movement committed to the bringing fame to Jesus Christ to the 16+ million college students around the nation and globe. ... Passion conferences are built on the mission of "calling students from campuses across the nation and around the world to live for what matters most." With such a specific target audience, fulfilling the Passion mission is entirely contingent upon how the event directors make the...

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This is simply reflecting statistics that even though more minorities are enrolling in college, the rates of success for these students are still shockingly lower than those of their Asian or white counterparts. ... John Benson argues that the biggest fight with closing achievement and opportunity gaps is getting over the stereotypes that minorities are unintelligent and incapable of doing higher level classes. ... The mission of the Education Trust is to close the opportunity gap between minorities and whites, as well as strive to close the achievement gap between races. ... The Solutions Man...

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With the input from each child, we developed goals for their individual achievement. ... The communication between my parents and instructors was not limited to family nights or parent-teacher conferences. ... Today, many other minority youth do not experience such encouragement and partnerships between parents and teachers. ... That experience shows me parents want their children to succeed and are open to help ensure academic achievement. ... Self-discipline and perseverance will be emphasized and every student will be held accountable for their achievement. ...

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Keith, (1992), the purpose of the study is to determine the extent of the influence of parental involvement on eighth grade students' achievement. ... Finally, we examined two possible mechanisms by which parental involvement might affect achievement: by increasing the amount of time students spend on homework and by decreasing the amount of time students spend watching week-day television. ... For each series both general achievement and each specific achievement area were examined. ... This effect seems to be accomplished primarily through homework; students whose parents are more invo...

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In the lives of most minority students, education is seen as essential; it's a dream that is still being interpreted. ... The article mentioned lack of community as one of the factors that influence the retention of minority students in institution and I am very inclined to agree. ... I believe that if there were equal number of ˜minority groups' and majorities both students and professors accepted and employed in an institution, students in the former group would feel more connected, academically inclined to succeed which in turns leads to an increased retention rate amongst ...

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It is estimated that by the turn of the century, approximately 30 percent of the United States population will be from a racial/ethnic minority group (Office of Ethnic Minority Affairs, 1995). ... Schools are now beginning to introduce programs and activities to recognize achievements of various ethnic groups realizing that a multicultural education helps to prepare students for life in an ethnically diverse society and as well can bring about cognitive and affective benefits to students. ... Some would argue that justice and equality have always been the focus of schools in America, bu...

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On the other hand, institutional racism is based on the way established institutions such as schools and colleges operate in regard to different ethnic minorities. ... A way to deal with this is to have members of staff of ethnic minorities which will hopefully improve the attention given to racism and reduce the frequency of individual racist discrimination, as teachers will be of ethnic minorities too, therefore will empathize with pupils of different ethnicities and they will pay attention to racism and report it or do something about it. ... On the other hand, many sociologists argue that...

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A National Task Force on Minority High Achievement, "Reaching The Top,"" comprised of many well-respected scholars, university heads, businessmen and researchers tried tackling this question of minority displacement. The Task Force examined the lacking number of minorities, specifically African Americans, Latinos and Native Americans, that had scores typical of students are well prepared for college (Reaching the Top 6). ... This very real and large bruise on the face of public schools could contribute for part of the shortcomings of minority achievement. Casteel calls Caucasian teachers to...

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