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Neckritz, Benjamin; Forlano, George – 1969
The 1968-69 winter session of the Program to Excite Potential (PEP), funded by the New York State Urban Education Program, included 45 ninth and tenth grade New York City students who were identified as underachieving, disadvantaged, and having sufficient talent to warrant further musical instruction. The program, housed at the Riverdale School of…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Aspiration, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Improvement
Brown, James M. – 1974
This program serves a population of disaffected, underachieving inner-city youth of junior high and high school age who are known to the Family and/or Criminal courts and are at least two years retarded in reading. In most cases, the first efforts of the center are said to be directed to the provision of remedial reading services, and toward…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Delinquency, Delinquent Rehabilitation, Disadvantaged Youth
Turner, Thom – 1985
Environmental Readiness Learning (ERL) is the affective curriculum component developed by the Bedford Stuyvesant Street Academy (New York) to improve the behavior, academic achievement, and self-esteem of urban high school students with histories of prior school failure. The program design reflects the school's philosophy that educational success…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Affective Behavior, Affective Objectives, Curriculum Guides