NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 3 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Dooley, T. Price; Schreckhise, William D. – Youth & Society, 2016
This study evaluates the Youth Development Program (YDP), a component of the federal Workforce Investment Act (WIA). We examine whether the YDP reduced dropout rates among youth in secondary schools in seven school districts in the impoverished Mississippi River Delta in southeast Arkansas. Initially, the program seems to have an impact. Students…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, Dropouts, Dropout Rate, Comparative Analysis
COSSMAN, GEORGE W.; YAGER, ROBERT E. – 1966
REPORTED IS THE EVALUATION OF AN EXPERIMENTAL INTERDISCIPLINARY COURSE ENTITLED "SCIENCE AND CULTURE" WHICH IS BEING DEVELOPED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LABORATORY SCHOOL. IT IS DIRECTED AT BRIDGING EXISTING GAPS IN INTEGRATING THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIAL STUDIES IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOL CURRICULUM. THE…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Course Descriptions, Critical Thinking, Curriculum
Carson, Katharine W. – 1975
This evaluation report is a description of an English as a Second Language (ESL) program for non English speaking disadvantaged students whose ability to read and write in their native tongue or English was not adequate to permit school success. The program was funded under the Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I. The purpose of the program…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Audiolingual Methods, Audiolingual Skills, English (Second Language)