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Download full textErickson, Edsel L.; And Others – 1972
The Cluster Program, funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, is a two year mini-school designed for 150 ninth year and 150 tenth year students in ten classes of 30 students each. Students are admitted to the Cluster Program on the basis of being two years or more behind in reading and mathematics skills. The major…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Curriculum Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention
Meyers, Edna O. – 1974
Inner city children have suffered indiscriminately from strict, illogical scoring of standardized IQ tests which do not credit children with thoughtful responses accurately reflecting their experiences and backgrounds. As a result, IQ scores too often doom these children to learning situations for children of lower mentality levels than their own.…
Descriptors: Black Youth, Child Development Centers, Cognitive Development, Concept Teaching
Bertsch, Eilene – 1970
The Marymount Manhattan College Community Leadership Program, which is a high risk admissions program, is taken as an exemplar of such programs. Although the author runs this program, it is considered impossible for any one person or even agency to actually run these programs. The Board of Trustees has approved the program and the necessary…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Admission, College Freshmen, College Programs
Heller, Barbara R. – 1968
This report of the functioning of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), Title I, in New York City was prepared under contract with the Board of Education. The study is descriptive rather than evaluative and the major effort was focussed on collecting the data upon which further intensive analysis will be based. However, certain…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Improvement, Educational Legislation
Fox, David J.; Weinberg, Emmeline – 1967
This New York City school district educational project sought to produce changes in a positive direction in academic achievement, attitudes toward school, and educational and vocational aspirations of two groups of disadvantaged children. One group consisted of children from public and nonpublic schools who had difficulty in learning because of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Black Students, Cultural Enrichment
New York Univ., NY. Center for Field Research and School Services. – 1973
There were three projects, funded under Urban Education auspices, carried out in various schools in District 15, Brooklyn, during the 1972-73 school year. The objectives of the Return to School program were to place students, who exhibited anti-social behavior or who were frequently truant, into special instructional units where their educational…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education, Guidance Personnel
Meissner, Judith A. – 1973
This study used a variation of the two-child communication situation in order to determine in what way, and how successfully, a small set of schoolrelated relational concepts would be communicated by inner-city elementary school black children. Included for comparative purposes was a test of comprehension of the standard version of the concepts.…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, Cognitive Processes, Communication Problems
McDaniel, John W. – 1973
This Final Report summarizes five years of development of cooperative summer and school-year programs between the Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC) and community colleges. NYC Goes to Community College is a combined work and study program for economically disadvantaged youth, cooperatively conducted by local sponsors of Neighborhood Youth Corps and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Compensatory Education, Cooperative Education, Cooperative Programs
Flaxman, Erwin; Ascher, Carol – 1992
This descriptive study examines the operation of youth mentoring programs in New York City. In particular, the study maps the experiences of developing and operating youth mentoring programs as articulated by the organizers or directors of 21 such programs; reviews and analyzes the research and descriptions of mentoring programs nationally to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Children, Disadvantaged Youth
Villegas, Jose J.; Fischer, Shelley M. – 1988
This program, in its fifth year of operation, was federally funded under the Refugee Act on a per-capita formula based on the number of New York City students identified as refugees using federal criteria. Because the total sum allocated was too limited to support instruction, funds were used to develop a vocational English as a second language…
Descriptors: Asian American Students, Asian Americans, Disadvantaged Youth, Federal Aid
HERMAN, MELVIN; SADOFSKY, STANLEY – 1967
OF THE 601 YOUTHS WHOSE CHARACTERISTICS WERE STUDIED IN PHASE I (VT 004 090), 377 WERE NOT PLACED IN JOBS OR TRAINING WITHIN THREE MONTHS AFTER THEIR INITIAL INTERVIEW AT THE JOB CENTERS. OF THESE, 201 WERE INTERVIEWED DURING PHASE II TO DETERMINE THE TRAITS WHICH DISTINGUISHED THEM FROM OTHERS WHO HAD BEEN PLACED BY THE CENTERS, AND THE FACTORS…
Descriptors: Black Youth, Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Services, Federal Programs
MCCLELLAND, SAMUEL D. – 1966
THIS REPORT SUMMARIZES THE NEW YORK CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION EVALUATION OF ITS MORE EFFECTIVE SCHOOLS (MES) PROGRAM. MES, ESTABLISHED TO IMPROVE THE BASIC READING AND ARITHMETIC SKILLS OF DISADVANTAGED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN, WAS INSTITUTED IN 21 SCHOOLS HAVING THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF PUPILS WITH LOW READING LEVELS, ENGLISH LANGUAGE HANDICAPS,…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Class Size, Community Involvement, Disadvantaged Youth
HAUBRICH, VERNON F. – 1966
THE BACKGROUND OF THE FAILURE OF RURAL AND URBAN SLUM SCHOOLS TO PROVIDE SUCCESSFUL PROGRAMS FOR DISADVANTAGED YOUTH IS REVIEWED. A DISCUSSION OF THE SOCIAL-PSYCHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS FOR SUCCESSFUL EFFORTS SHOWS THE IMPORTANCE OF THE INVOLVEMENT OF THE TEACHER, THE PARENT, AND THE COMMUNITY IN THESE PROGRAMS. IT IS FELT THAT ACTIVE TEACHER…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Community Involvement, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Programs
New York Univ., NY. Project APEX. – 1965
THIS REPORT BRIEFLY OUTLINES PLANS FOR A NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PROJECT TO TRAIN 60 NEGRO, PUERTO RICAN, AND WHITE DISADVANTAGED HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES TO TEACH IN SLUM SCHOOLS AND SERVE AS ROLE MODELS FOR OTHER DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS. PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS WILL BE PAIRED, HOUSED, AND TRAINED WITH 60 "PEACE-CORPS-TYPE" GRADUATE ASSISTANTS.…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Basic Skills, Behavior Change, College Curriculum
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA. – 1969
The curriculum in this after school program for low income Negro and Puerto Rican elementary school (grades 2-6) consisted primarily of remedial reading and arithmetic, library training, homework assistance, and a "Special Potential Development Service" providing music, art, and health education. The volunteer students were accepted…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Arithmetic, Audiovisual Aids, Compensatory Education
