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Download full textAmerican Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA. – 1972
The More Effective Schools Program was designed to prevent academic failure of disadvantaged urban children by focusing on their basic language and mathematics problems. It attempted to improve the quality of a traditional educational program through reducing the pupil-teacher ratio; offering more small-group and individualized instruction;…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Experience
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
Peer reviewedBlotner, Roberta; Lilly, Levander – Journal of Drug Education, 1986
Evaluates SPECDA (School Program to Educate and Control Drug Abuse) a comprehensive substance abuse prevention program which links drug counselors and police officers in teams to provide drug education. Results indicated significant positive changes in children's knowledge about drugs, attitudes toward drugs, and attitudes toward polic officers…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Counseling Services, Drug Abuse, Drug Education
Zevin, Jack – 1995
Reporting on a pilot study of urban junior high students, this report examines the way young people acquire perceptions of their own and other nations and attempts to identify the sources of those ideas. This action research approach used a survey research instrument with a 20-item semantic differential form to measure students' knowledge of and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Classroom Research, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Images
Erickson, Edsel; And Others – 1973
This project was designed to bridge the gap between the home and school by sending family assistants into the homes of potential dropouts and youngsters whose school work and behavior are not satisfactory. One hundred and two family assistants acting with schools' attendance coordinators, deans, and guidance personnel, work with pupils whose…
Descriptors: Attendance, Compensatory Education, Dropout Prevention, Family Counseling
Farrell, Edwin – 1990
The urban high school dropout phenomenon may result from the inability of at-risk students to integrate competing social identities, or "selves." Using Erik Erikson's theory of adolescent personality development as a framework, this study analyzes information gathered from interviews with 73 New York City high school students by peer…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Dropout Prevention, High Risk Students, High School Students
