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New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Research, Evaluation, and Assessment. – 1992
This evaluation report describes the Quality Improvement Program Plan for Special Educators (QUIPP) which provides supplemental professional development opportunities for New York City special education professionals and paraprofessionals at the elementary, middle, and intermediate/junior high school levels. The program stresses design of the…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Quality, Elementary Education, Inservice Teacher Education
National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, Washington, DC. – 1990
This report discusses the govenment role in higher education in the United States, particularly in relation to the contribution the state and land-grant universities can make in providing answers to a number of seemingly intractable problems which the country must solve in order to maintain its economic and political position in the world. The…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Black Colleges, Conservation (Environment), Educational Trends
Opuni, Kwame A.; And Others – 1990
The REACH-6 program was a concerted effort by the Houston (Texas) school district to revamp the instructional quality in six of its elementary schools, with the primary purpose of improving the schools' student academic performance. This report describes the academic performance of the students in the REACH-6 program on the TEAMS and MAT-6 tests…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Education, Enrichment Activities
Donovan, Richard A., Ed.; And Others – 1987
In 1983, the Ford Foundation funded a two-part project, the Urban Community College Transfer Opportunities Project (UCC/TOP), designed to improve the transfer process from the community college to the four-year institution for urban minority students. Through partnership efforts with secondary schools and four-year colleges and universities, the…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), College School Cooperation, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges
Ellison, Nolen M.; Smith, Janet D. – 1986
The issue of educational access affects persons who live in urban areas more than any other single group in the country. The vast majority of such persons are black and economically and socially disadvantaged. A look at enrollment by geographic regions across the nation shows over 50% of all black students are concentrated in less than 2% of the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Affirmative Action, Articulation (Education), Black Students
Richardson, Richard C., Jr.; Bender, Louis W. – 1986
Drawing from a study of the progress of minority students to the baccalaureate degree, this report raises questions on how institutions and states can intervene to speed the process of reducing inequities that are clearly the product of past differences in minority access to education and jobs, and identifies practices of particular promise.…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Affirmative Action, Articulation (Education), Bachelors Degrees
Byas, Ulysses – 1984
The Roosevelt School District, with the lowest wealth per pupil of the 56 districts located in Nassau County, Long Island, New York, worked with the Urban Education Department of the University of Massachusetts' Division of Instructional Leadership to design and implement a degree-granting staff development program centered around identifying and…
Descriptors: Action Research, Administrators, College School Cooperation, Developmental Programs
Instituto Nacional para la Educacion de los Adultos, Mexico City (Mexico). – 1991
The series "Self-instructional Notes on Social Participation" is a six volume series intended as teaching aids for adult educators. The theoretical, methodological, informative and practical elements of this series will assist professionals in their work and help them achieve greater success. The specific purpose of each notebook is…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs
Strickland, Dorothy S., Ed.; Cooper, Eric J., Ed. – 1987
This book comprises papers on effectively educating black children. The foreword is by U.S. Representative Augustus F. Hawkins; the introduction is by Ernest L. Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Section I, "School Policy: Formation and Implementation," includes the following papers: (1) "Revisiting…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Black Youth, Educational Policy
Schaier-Peleg, Barbara, Ed. – 1984
Designed to acquaint educators and administrators with the Ford Foundation's Urban Community College Transfer Opportunities Program (UCCTOP), this booklet examines the rationale for and activities and outcomes of the program. First, introductory comments indicate that UCCTOP was designed to help urban community colleges with high minority…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), College School Cooperation, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges
Ramaswami, Soundaram – 1994
This evaluation assesses the impact of New Jersey's Reading Recovery program on first-grade students in the Newark School District. The report presents results from two cohorts and is divided into two main sections. Section 1 deals with the achievement of the students from the 1991-1992 academic year. Their performance at the end of first grade in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, Achievement Tests, Compensatory Education
Ventouratos, Despina – 1993
This report presents evaluative information concerning Project Math and Science, a New York City program that provided instruction in English as a second language (ESL), native language arts (NLA), and bilingual instruction in the content areas of mathematics and science. The project also provided teachers of participating students (630 mostly…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Asian Americans, Attendance, Bilingual Education
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American Federation of Teachers, Washington, DC. – 1993
This publication presents a collection of articles about education drawn from magazines, journals, books, and reports. The collection includes 13 selections touching on key educational issues, challenging ideas, and proposals for change: (1) "First Born, Fast Grown: The Manful Life of Nicholas" (Isabel Wilkerson); (2) "Putting…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Anthologies, Black Students, Change Strategies
Archer, Elayne – 1993
This report describes the efforts of three urban school districts participating in the Urban Schools Science and Mathematics Program (USSAMP) to enhance mathematics and science education in the middle grades and to prepare more African-American, Latino, and female students for career opportunities in technology and science. In Atlanta (Georgia),…
Descriptors: Algebra, Black Students, Career Education, Elementary School Students
National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, Washington, DC. – 1989
This report seeks to identify and make policy recommendations concerning major urban issues confronting the Bush Administration. The Division of Urban Affairs of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC) established working groups and commissioned papers on the following six key urban policy issues: (1)…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Dislocated Workers, Economic Development, Economically Disadvantaged
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