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Goldenberg, I. Ira – 1975
The purpose of the study was to investigate three separate aspects of the process by which ex-addicts-in-treatment are prepared for, enter into, and function in the world of work. These aspects were the actual labor market conditions in two different urban settings--New York City and the greater Boston area; the specific institutional supports…
Descriptors: Drug Addiction, Employer Attitudes, Employment Opportunities, Employment Services

Tallerico, Marilyn – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2000
Examines superintendent search and selection practices in New York State districts, using gatekeeping and career mobility theories. Findings illustrate how certain elements of school-board and headhunting practices, school-administration norms, and dominant ideological/sociocultural values facilitate nonminority males' access and limit others'…
Descriptors: Administrator Selection, Career Change, Case Studies, Critical Theory
Hawkins, B. Denise – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2005
At Coppin State University, a historically Black university, nearly 120 ninth-graders are enrolled in the Coppin Academy. The academy is one of nearly a dozen such innovative school partnerships nationwide, aiming to apply study results that suggest that African-American students may perform better in smaller, more personalized learning…
Descriptors: Scholarship Funds, Small Classes, Educational Environment, College Programs
Bennett, Barbara K.; Donnelly, Margaret – 1993
The School to Employment Program (STEP) operated during 1992-93 as an employment-oriented program served economically disadvantaged, out-of-school youth between the ages of 16-21, with special emphasis on 18- and 19-year-olds. Program participants were provided an opportunity to engage in work experience or on-the-job training, to improve academic…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Basic Skills, Dropout Programs, Economically Disadvantaged
Webb, Michael B. – 1987
New York State has the fifth highest dropout rate in the United States. Between 1980 and 1984 the dropout rate ranged between 32.8 percent and 34 percent. During the 1980-81 school year alone, over half (53 percent) of black high school students dropped out of school. Several approaches have been tried to decrease numbers of dropouts. This report…
Descriptors: Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention, Educational Planning, High Risk Students
New York State Dept. of Social Services, Albany. – 1989
This report describes the first-year implementation of the New York State Department of Social Services' (DSS) "No Time to Lose" initiative, whose goal is to implement the recommendations of the New York State Summit on Black and Hispanic Children in conjunction with the Governor's declaration of "The Decade of the Child."…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Blacks, Child Welfare, Community Involvement
Friedman, Malcolm – 1987
There is a continuing need for linguistic minority supervisors in the metropolitan New York City area. A program at the Brooklyn campus of Long Island University prepares bilingual personnel for these responsibilities. Students who complete the program receive a professional diploma and most obtain positions as administrators or supervisors in the…
Descriptors: Administrators, Bilingualism, Elementary Secondary Education, Graduate Study
Abdur-Rahman, Amina; And Others – 1981
This is the fourth Status of Black New York Report, (1981) issued by the New York Urban League. A significant portion is based on the responses garnered from the New York City sample of a national survey of black households conducted by the Urban League. Examined are the needs, perceptions, and social and economic concerns of black New Yorkers.…
Descriptors: Black Attitudes, Black Employment, Blacks, Economic Development
COHEN, S. ALAN – 1964
READING DISABILITIES ARE DIVIDED INTO THREE CATEGORIES--THOSE CAUSED BY PERCEPTUAL FACTORS, THOSE CAUSED BY PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS, AND THOSE CAUSED BY PSYCHOEDUCATIONAL FACTORS. POOR DEVELOPMENT OF VISUAL PERCEPTION CONSTITUTES A DISPROPORTIONATE PERCENTAGE OF LEARNING DISABILITY AMONG NEGROES AND PUERTO RICANS IN CENTRAL CITIES. EARLY CHILDHOOD…
Descriptors: Black Youth, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education
BECKMAN, ANN C.; QUIRK, CATHLEEN – 1967
THIRTY-THREE PERSONS PARTICIPATED IN THE RESEARCH CONFERENCE ON APPRENTICESHIP TRAINING COSPONSORED BY THE OFFICE OF MANPOWER POLICY, EVALUATION, AND RESEARCH, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, AND THE CENTER FOR STUDIES IN VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION, THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN. THE OBJECTIVES OF THE CONFERENCE WERE TO (1) PRESENT THE FINDINGS OF…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Apprenticeships, Blacks, Conferences
Taha, Consuelo Byrd – 1974
This study is considered to represent an attempt to examine conditions which inhibit the education of many minority group college students, by pursuing three specific objectives. They are: (1) to identify common indicators of the lack of self-discipline among minority group college students and analyze them in terms of their nature and magnitude;…
Descriptors: Attendance, Classroom Observation Techniques, College Students, Disadvantaged Youth
Dispenzieri, Angelo; And Others – 1969
In its initial years of operation the College Discovery Program (CDP) has demonstrated the feasibility of providing higher education at the university level to underprivileged and educationally deprived youths. Minority group enrollment constituted approximately four-fifths of the total population of CDP students, while fewer than one-fifth of the…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, College Programs, Community Colleges, Compensatory Education
New York Univ., NY. New Careers Development Center. – 1970
A case study in career advancement in the community action agency in Suffolk County, New York, presents information on demography, economics, institutional resources, minority groups, political structure, funded programs, and the agency's background, as well as on the problems, objectives, benefits, activities, and strengths and weaknesses of the…
Descriptors: Agencies, Agency Cooperation, Case Studies, Community Action
Gittell, Marilyn, Ed.; Hevesi, Alan G., Ed. – 1969
This book is a compilation of readings on the politics of urban education. Topics covered are community power structure, community control, school segregation, decision making in school desegregation, obstacles to desegregation in New York City and leaders in public education. Professionalism and bureaucracy versus community control, critiques of…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Black Power, Community Role, Decentralization

Picciano, Anthony – Urban Review, 1991
Use of computers for instruction in public schools in New York City is compared with that in public schools in suburban Westchester County. Survey responses from 90 city and 46 suburban schools emphasize hardware availability, the nature of instructional software, and perceived problems/progress in integrating computers into the curriculum. (SLD)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Software