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In striving to reduce racial achievement gaps, schools and youth development programs are increasingly turning to youth mentoring programs. But how to ensure success? Educators Graig Meyer and George Noblit reveal how one such program challenged institutional racism and eliminated persistent achievement disparities in a local school system.

This text examines mentoring with a focus on enhancing opportunities for those traditionally ignored in the mentoring process. It includes chapters about metoring in a variety of settings with varied populations to capture the essence of the experience.

How do we know that mentoring works? In this age of accountability, the time is ripe for substantiating evidence through empirical research, what mentoring processes, forms, and strategies lead to more effective teachers and administrators within P-12 contexts. This book brings together reports of recent research on mentoring in K-12 settings for new teachers and new principals.

How do we know that mentoring works? In this age of accountability, the time is ripe for substantiating evidence through empirical research, what mentoring processes, forms, and strategies lead to more effective teachers and administrators within P-12 contexts. This book brings together reports of recent research on mentoring in K-12 settings for new teachers and new principals.

Provides information for higher education minority serving institutions (MSIs) and other institutions and individuals interested in providing and/or improving mentoring programs and services to a variety of target groups. The book explores how mentorship can produce beneficial outcomes for the mentor.

Provides information for higher education minority serving institutions (MSIs) and other institutions and individuals interested in providing and/or improving mentoring programs and services to a variety of target groups. The book explores how mentorship can produce beneficial outcomes for the mentor.

Examining mentoring in the technological age, this book focuses upon the impact and use of technology in terms of program development, mentoring roles, problems and solutions and issues to be addressed including confidentiality, ethics, and implications for future practice. The editors explore the possibilities for tomorrow from the work of today.

This volume examines mentoring from a global persepctive in an effort to discover the commonalities and differences, not only in diverse fields of practice, but also across a wide range of contextual settings. Each chapter contains an overview of the programme, problems encountered and solutions.

This volume examines mentoring from a global persepctive in an effort to discover the commonalities and differences, not only in diverse fields of practice, but also across a wide range of contextual settings. Each chapter contains an overview of the programme, problems encountered and solutions.

Examining mentoring in the technological age, this book focuses upon the impact and use of technology in terms of program development, mentoring roles, problems and solutions. It addresses issues including confidentiality, ethics, and implications for future practice.