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Central California's ENLACE Program
special development teams are engaged in field-based research,
pilot-tests, and expert evaluation of high-potential program ideas
to include in the comprehensive Phase II plan.
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Early Developmental Outreach
Research indicates that many children begin as
early as in grades 5 and 6 to make decisions related to whether
they will go on to attend some kind of postsecondary education
program after high school. Particularly among children who
are the first in their families to attend college, many of whose
peers will choose to not attend, "perceived
opportunity" is a critical factor.... (Continued)
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Enhancing Postsecondary Eligibility
Central California's rural Hispanic students suffer
the lowest overall postsecondary eligibility rates in the
state. Data further indicate that the rate of high school
completion is falling dramatically with each generation.
Conditions prevalent in small, rural school districts and
impoverished communities often preclude adopting effective but
expensive alternative forms of instruction, student academic
support, and retention strategies.... (Continued) |
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Education, Family, and Culture
More than a decade of research conducted by social
scientists at Fresno State has shown that family and culture are
significant factors in rural Hispanic students' decisions
regarding college. Any effort to modify and improve
college-preparation and college-going behaviors among central
California's rural Hispanic student populations must weave
together family values, cultural preferences, and individual
aspirations... (Continued) |
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Career Development and Cultural Preferences
Preparing for a career is of central concern to
nearly everyone who plans to attend college. For students
who are the first in their families to attend a postsecondary
education institution or program, it may be difficult to
evaluate one's career options and interests. In
communities where few adults over the age of 19 have completed
high school and where even fewer have participated in any form
of education as adults, there are few opportunities for young
men and women to see the relationship between career and
lifestyle options. (Continued) |
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| Instructional Technologies & Learning Management
Innovative and affordable instructional technologies and
learning management systems are desperately needed in the small,
impoverished schools enrolling central California's rural
Hispanic populations. Lacking virtually all of the
resources and flexibility of course schedules and programming
found in many of California's larger schools and districts,
central California's rural schools have limited practical access
to new technologies for instructional and learning-support
purposes. (Continued)
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