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Peer reviewedAlperstein, Garth; And Others – American Journal of Public Health, 1988
Examination of medical records reveals that the frequency of health problems--including delayed immunizations, elevated blood lead levels, hospital admission rates, and child abuse and neglect report rates--among a sample of 265 New York City homeless children under age 5 far exceeded those of children of similar low socioeconomic status attending…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Children
Download full textAccess to Success, 1993
The role and importance of education for homeless children and families particularly in New York City at the Homes for the Homeless organization are considered. The educational needs and role of parents are also explored. Education is a key component in the struggle against poverty, and parents need to embrace education both to move toward greater…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Children, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education
Citizens' Committee for Children of New York, NY. – 1993
This report is a comprehensive study of the status of children and their families in New York City. It measures how well children are doing by using widely recognized indicators of well-being, and it measures the need, use, and accessibility of services to help children. "Keeping Track" focuses on community-level data, examining the 59…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Characteristics, Delivery Systems, Disadvantaged Youth
LACHICA, GENARO; TANNER, DANIEL – 1967
A NEW YORK CITY PROGRAM TO IDENTIFY DISADVANTAGED YOUTH WITH UNDISCOVERED COLLEGE POTENTIAL AT THE END OF NINTH GRADE, TO IMPROVE THEIR MOTIVATION AND ACHIEVEMENT IN SCHOOL WORK, TO DEVELOP THEIR EXPECTATIONS FOR COLLEGE ENTRANCE, AND TO IMPROVE THEIR CHANCES FOR SUCCESS IN COLLEGE, IS DESCRIBED. DURING THE SPRING OF 1965, 579 DISADVANTAGED BOYS…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance Records, College Preparation, Comparative Analysis
FLAXMAN, ERWIN; ZINN, VICTOR
THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY OF RESEARCH, THEORETICAL, HISTORICAL, AND ANECDOTAL MATERIAL IS A BRIEF, REPRESENTATIVE LIST OF REFERENCES WHICH REFLECT THE CURRENT THINKING ABOUT THE TRAINING NEEDS OF THE TEACHER OF SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN AND YOUTH. THE APPROXIMATELY 110 WORKS CITED INCLUDE JOURNAL ARTICLES, BOOKS, SPEECHES, DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS,…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Disadvantaged Youth, Guidelines, Inservice Teacher Education
Lieberman, Janet E. – 1979
Designed as an alternative program to reduce absenteeism in four high schools in the Bronx, a career education and academic upgrading experiment placed sixty ninth graders in a special area of Bronx Community College. The students, recruited from among disadvantaged potential dropouts (mostly blacks and Hispanics), attended half-day sessions at…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Basic Skills, Blacks
Johnson, Esther – 1975
A class action begun on September 20, 1972 was settled on August 29, 1974 by a Consent Decree signed by United States District Judge Marvin E. Frankel. The group of children affected by the mandates in the Consent Decree are "all New York City public school children whose English language deficiency prevents them from effectively…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary School Students, English (Second Language)
Children's Television Workshop, New York, NY. – 1973
Three major themes dominated the results of a 1973 survey conducted for the Children's Television Workshop in ghetto areas of New York, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. First, comparison of survey data with data from studies conducted in 1970 and 1971 showed that Sesame Street had become an institution with ghetto children, its penetration and…
Descriptors: Blacks, Comparative Analysis, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education
An Evaluation of Project for Increased Achievement and a New Outlook. State Urban Education Program.
New York Univ., NY. Center for Field Research and School Services. – 1973
The intent of this project was to improve the quality of the high school experience for a selected group of "high risk" freshmen by providing them with services beyond those normally made available. At each of six high schools, the guidance counselors together with the counselors of each school's feeder schools, selected a group of 250…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention, Economically Disadvantaged
Ellen, Ingrid Gould; O'Regan, Katherine; Schwartz, Amy Ellen; Stiefel, Leanna – 2001
This study examines the degree to which New York City's immigrant students are segregated and how segregation varies across groups with differing language skills and from different countries. It notes how schools attended by immigrant students differed by student characteristics, teachers, and funding levels. After reviewing the literature on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cultural Differences, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Environment
Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L. – 1993
Specific demographic changes that occurred in the New York City metropolitan area during the 1980s are described, and the challenges and opportunities facing the city in the 1990s are explored. The 1980s saw the greatest increase in the diversity of the city in its history, but sharp inequality, running along racial and ethnic lines, persists in…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Attainment
Rodriguez, Abraham, Jr. – 1992
The seven short stories in this collection portray the lives of Puerto Rican children and adolescents in the South Bronx (New York City). The hopelessness of many Puerto Rican and Black youth is vividly depicted in stories dealing with drug use, discrimination, unwanted and early pregnancy, and a host of other urban social ills. Titles of the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Black Youth, Children, Disadvantaged Youth
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This report documents the problems of Black and Latino males in New York City by assembling a broad range of data regarding the connections between the City's Black and Latino men and its social and economic institutions. The report draws primarily on data from federal surveys and administrative data from New York City and New York State agencies.…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Blacks, Correctional Rehabilitation, Disadvantaged Youth
Muller, Mary C. – 1975
The primary objective of this Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I program for mentally retarded children was to improve the ability of the 450 participants to communicate effectively in either English and Spanish or in both languages. The second objective was to improve the reading and mathematics scores of these bilingual mentally retarded…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Communication Skills, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Educational Evaluation. – 1981
The Career Awareness and Readiness for Employment for Future Homemakers of America/HERO (CARE/FHA/HERO) program was established to provide 25 students at Adlai E. Stevenson High School (Bronx, New York) with paid work study experience in non-traditional home economics jobs. The goals of the program were to increase student involvement in…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Disadvantaged Youth, Evaluation Criteria, High School Students
