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Overview
Breaking the Barriers shows how increased career awareness and exposure to mentors and role models can help students see science and math-related careers as desirable and viable options. It explains how test preparation, activity-based instruction, cooperative learning, and tutoring can help to improve academic outcomes.
Synopsis
Breaking the Barriers shows how increased career awareness and exposure to mentors and role models can help students see science and math-related careers as desirable and viable options. It explains how test preparation, activity-based instruction, cooperative learning, and tutoring can help to improve academic outcomes.
Booknews
Takes a comprehensive look at interventions, particularly those in grades four through eight, that encourage and support the interest of females and minorities in mathematics and science. Provides critical information on ten successful intervention programs--including MESA, Project SEED, and Operation SMART--and offers practitioners specific guidance for developing, funding, and implementing similar programs in their own schools. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)