During the spring of 2016, Boston Public School (BPS) students led large-scale walkouts from their schools in protest against proposed cuts to the BPS budget. Several thousand students walked-out of schools in March 2016, and hundreds walked out that May. In response to this youth-led protest, Mayor Marty Walsh rescinded some of the proposed cuts,…

The purpose of this literature review is to examine research on peer mentoring among K-12 students to assist practitioners with how to incorporate these instructional techniques into their own music programs. Primary themes across the music education literature of peer mentoring include the role of music teachers, the role of students as they…

While the numbers of African American and Latinx students have increased in higher education over the last several decades, African Americans and Latinx students experience college different from their peers. A specific area where African American and Latinx students experience college in distinct ways is around their co-curricular involvement and…

Collaboration (GDMC), an informal education program in 3D computer modeling and 2D interactive game design serving primarily African American youth aged 7 to 19 years in the Washington, D.C. metro area, transformed from a program designed and taught by adults to one designed and taught by youth. In Year 1, 8% of youth participants held a…

Orientation programs, while unique in their own design and implementation across campuses, offer incoming students the opportunity to become acquainted with the institutional environment. A particularly important element of orientation programs is the component of orientation leaders who serve as peer mentors and guides to incoming students. These…

Because students starting college are not always prepared to succeed, colleges and universities frequently offer courses designed to help students who need remediation in mathematics, reading, and writing. At Utah Valley University (UVU), peer mentors are integrated into the University Student Success course to help first-year students learn the…