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Download full textMead, Sara – Progressive Policy Institute, 2005
In this report for the Progressive Policy Institute's 21st Century Schools Project, the author examines charter schooling in Washington, D.C., including the region's unique history of charter schooling and the challenges these schools face. She is optimistic about the future of the District's charter school movement, but argues that District and…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Urban Schools, Educational Finance, Educational Change
Pollak, Ruth S., Ed.; Freed, Judith G., Assoc. Ed. – 1968
This report presents recommendations for the establishment of an early education program based on the Passow Report (that the District of Columbia undertake a major program of schooling for disadvantaged preschool children, and that this program be integrated into the school system). A large portion of the report discusses the rationale of the…
Descriptors: Ancillary Services, Career Opportunities, Child Development, Disadvantaged Youth
District of Columbia Dept. of Vocational Rehabilitation, Washington, DC. – 1969
The services and effects of a 3-year project designed for a selected group of students in the low range of mental ability (and/or with subaverage intellectual functioning) enrolled in the Eastern High School (Washington, D.C.) are reported. The objects of the demonstration project were to provide for unmet academic, social, prevocational and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Counseling, Disadvantaged Youth, Exceptional Child Research
Office of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC. Office of Programs for the Disadvantaged. – 1969
Problems of unemployed youth are presented in the context of urban development in nine American cities: Atlanta, Chicago, Cleveland, Kansas City, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. The migration during the 1950's of the urban white population to the suburbs initiated a significant change in the economic and…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Black Population Trends, Decentralization, Disadvantaged Youth
BLACKE, EVIAS, JR. – 1965
THE FOUR AREAS PRESENTED ARE GROUP AND INDIVIDUAL INTELLIGENCE TESTS, ACHIEVEMENT TESTS, EDUCATIONAL GROUPING PROCEDURES, AND FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH LOW INCOME. A TRACK SYSTEM, OR ANY SYSTEM OF GROUPING, SHOULD PROMOTE RATHER THAN HINDER THE ACHIEVEMENT OF BOTH THE LOW-INCOME GROUPS AND THE HIGHER-INCOME GROUPS. THE PRESENT TRACK SYSTEM IN…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Ability Identification, Achievement Tests, Disadvantaged Youth
Grotberg, Edith H. – 1967
This report reviews research which is pertinent to the Washington, D.C. Integrated Secondary Education Project. Reviewed in particular is research dealing with educational change and innovation, compensatory education practices, and school integration and segregation. Twenty-seven widely adopted educational innovations and a number of innovations…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Black Students, Community Characteristics, Compensatory Education
John, Thomas – 1976
This two-year project used students at the junior and senior high school level as tutors to elementary students in the basic skills of math and reading. Tutor selection was based on continuing interest, attendance, scholastic achievement, and overall attitude toward the program. The final evaluative report includes the following information: (1)…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Schools, Formative Evaluation
1963
THE INVESTIGATORS WERE INTERESTED IN--WHAT PORTIONS OF THE HIGHER HORIZONS PROGRAM COULD BE REPLICABLE, MEASURABLE CHANGES IN STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT, ATTITUDES, AND HABITS AS A RESULT OF THE EXPERIMENT, AND SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY DYNAMICS WHICH PRECIPITATED AND ACCOMPANIED INNOVATIONS. CERTAIN FEATURES OF THE HIGHER HORIZONS PROGRAM FOR CULTURALLY…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Costs, Disadvantaged Youth, Enrichment
HAYDEN, HILARY – 1968
LATIN TEACHERS AND LANGUAGE SUPERVISORS IN CHICAGO, DETROIT, CLEVELAND, PHILADELPHIA, AND NEW YORK VISITED FIVE 6TH AND 7TH GRADE CLASSES IN FIVE DIFFERENT WASHINGTON, D.C. PUBLIC SCHOOLS, AND PARTICIPATED IN DISCUSSIONS AFTERWARDS WITH LOCAL ADMINISTRATORS, CURRICULUM WRITERS, AND TEACHERS. THE CLASSROOMS VISITED WERE INVOLVED IN EXPERIMENTAL…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Disadvantaged Youth, Grade 6, Grade 7
Neyman, Clinton A., Jr. – 1972
The overall objectives of the 1971-72 Title I, Elementary Secondary Education Act program were: to raise reading and mathematics achievement level one year and five months; to reinforce, enrich, and extend skill mastery through integration of the special subject areas; to broaden the experiential backgrounds of the children; to recognize and…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Elementary School Students
Keegan, Sinead; Chaplin, Duncan – 2002
This report describes the DC Children and Youth Investment Partnership, which helps improve outcomes for DC youth by building a sustainable partnership to increase the quality and quantity of youth services. Data from interviews with key actors, attendance at Partnership meetings, and site visits with affiliated initiatives show progress in…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Childhood Needs, Community Involvement, Cooperative Planning
Peterson, Paul E.; Greene, Jay P.; Howell, William G.; McCready, William – 1998
The Washington Scholarship Fund Pilot Program (WSF) was established as a privately funded voucher program for low-income families in the District of Columbia. The WSF awarded its scholarships by lottery, making it possible to evaluate it as though it were a randomized experiment. The responses of qualified families with children in public schools…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Vouchers, Elementary Secondary Education, Low Income Groups
Anapol, Malthon M., Ed. – MWCA Encoder, 1978
The four articles in this publication address the following topics: opportunities for developing a graduate program in international and intercultural communication in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area; the nature of bilingualism and biculturalism in an urban context and their implications for intercultural communication; a typology of…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingualism, Black Dialects, Black Youth
POLK, KENNETH – 1963
THIS SPEECH STATES THAT STUDIES INDICATE THAT DELINQUENCY IN RURAL AREAS TENDS TO BE LESS SERIOUS IN TERMS OF THE ACTS COMMITTED AND IS TREATED MORE LENIENTLY THAN IN METROPOLITAN AREAS. THE DELINQUENCY THAT DOES EXIST IS A MALE PROBLEM, OCCURS PREDOMINATELY AMONG YOUTH FROM LOWER-ECONOMIC-STATUS BACKGROUNDS, REFLECTS ALIENATION FROM COMMUNITY AND…
Descriptors: Crime, Cultural Background, Delinquency, Delinquency Causes
Dailey, John T.; Neyman, Clinton A., Jr. – 1968
These studies were undertaken to evaluate the 1967 summer school programs in the District of Columbia funded under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. There were 18 different Title I programs, involving approximately 15,000 students. There were two main aspects of the evaluation: (1) the statistical aspects included a…
Descriptors: College Preparation, Compensatory Education, Counseling Services, Disadvantaged Youth
