| Schools: How Can UH Manoa GEAR UP Help You? |
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| Written by Staff Writer | |
| Tuesday, 30 October 2007 | |
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How can UH Manoa GEAR UP help your school? GEAR UP stands for Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs. Its a federal program aimed at increasing the number of low-income students who attend college. Project activities seek to increase higher education by providing and increasing access to financial aid. UH Manoa GEAR UP provides your students with college visits, tutoring, advising, counseling, test preparation workshops, student clubs, and other academic enrichment activities for students, teachers and parents. UH Manoa GEAR UP is a collaboration between Kalakaua Middle School, Farrington High School, and the University of Hawaii at Manoa. UH Manoa GEAR UP services and activities are available to all current 8th graders at Kalakaua Middle School and 9th graders at Farrington High School. |
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| Last Updated ( Friday, 01 February 2008 ) |









Ilokano and Samoan language courses offer students the opportunity to develop complex and high-level language skills in their heritage languages. English and study skills courses allow for life long learning of English speaking, reading, writing, and computer technology skills through training students in analyzing the purposes and uses of language. These courses aim to enhance students’ self-esteem by changing the common view that heritage languages and cultures are problems to an orientation in which home languages and cultures are valued as resources of great academic and social value.