Recruiting and retaining students in family and consumer sciences education: El Puente Para El Futuro (the bridge to the future) mentoring project

Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 7-23

  Eastman, Wanda A ^a   Cummings, Merrilyn N ^a   Petersen, Garlene ^b   Van Leeuwen, Dawn ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Dona Ana Branch Community College   (United States)

Author keywords

FCS; Mentoring; Teacher shortage

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249164399     PISSN: 1077727X     EISSN: 15523934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077727X06289426     Document Type: Article

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