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Download full textLandes, Rosalind – 1969
One of the major concerns of the First National City Bank's Public Affairs Committee is the cost and quality of urban education. The Bank's Regional Economics Section inquired into various aspects of public education in New York City. While the study is considered as a tentative exploration of a complex subject, questions concerning businessmen…
Descriptors: Business Responsibility, Cultural Influences, Decentralization, Educational Finance
Center for Urban Education, New York, NY. Program Reference Service. – 1969
The Homework Helper Program with 100 centers in New York City, serving 1500 tutors and 4500 tutees, helps both tutors and tutees. Tutors (disadvantaged secondary school students) are paid $1.50-$2.00 an hour which helps them stay in school and gives them experiences of "success." Tutees (fourth, fifth, and sixth grade pupils performing…
Descriptors: After School Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary School Students, High School Students
Kelly, Charles P. – 1979
Students in need of supplementary reading and mathematics instruction were identified, their specific needs determined, and prescriptive activities formulated. Prescriptive reading and math teachers were responsible for program implementation and coordination with classroom teachers in three elementary schools and one junior high school. Staff…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Elementary Education, Junior High Schools, Mathematics Instruction
HANSON, JOSEPH T. – 1967
SEX DIFFERENCES IN READING ACHIEVEMENT AND THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE PHONOVISUAL METHOD OF READING INSTRUCTION IN GRADES 1 TO 3 WHEN USED AS A SUPPLEMENT TO THE STATE-ADOPTED CO-BASAL READING SERIES WERE STUDIED IN TWO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS IN PASADENA, CALIFORNIA. SUBJECTS IN THE EXPERIMENTAL SCHOOL (60 IN GRADE 1, 68 IN GRADE 2, 54 IN GRADE 3) WERE…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Instructional Materials, Primary Education, Reading Achievement
Turetzky, Lois E. – 1988
Designed to improve standardized reading scores, a structured reading program was implemented for third grade students at Community Elementary School 73 in the Bronx, New York City. From 1982 to 1987, this school ranked near the bottom of all New York City elementary schools in reading achievement, a ranking based primarily on results of reading…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Schools, Grade 3, Primary Education, Public Schools
Hennessy, James J. – 1976
The Ethnic Heritage Learning Center, designed to increase the reading skills of elementary students who are educationally and economically disadvantaged, is described in this paper. The major goal of the Center was to provide supplementary remedial reading instruction. In addition to the 250 students who were selected as a target group, the Center…
Descriptors: African Culture, Black Students, Cultural Activities, Cultural Awareness
Wohl, Seth F. – 1971
This document describes the Education Through Organ Study Program (ETHOS) designed to counteract disaffected students' falling academic achievement, absenteeism and truancy, and negative attitudes toward education and the school. The program attempted to assure success in acquiring musical skill by providing portable desk reed organs, programmed…
Descriptors: High School Students, Low Achievement, Low Income Groups, Music Education
Griggs, Shirley A. – 1975
A total of 1,922 pupils participated in this Title I Elementary Secondary Education Act Program, which was designed to improve the reading and/or mathematics skills of the students. The program aimed to serve students in special schools or residential treatment centers in New York City who were in kindergarten through grade 12. The majority of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Adjustment, Emotional Disturbances, Handicapped Children
Bildner, Beatrice; And Others – 1979
The Summer Umbrella Program was designed to provide remedial instruction to children with demonstrable needs in reading, mathematics, and English as a second language. Instruction functioned on an individual or small group basis, employing a flexible, eclectic, multi-modality methodology. The instructional design was diagnostic/prescriptive. Pre…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Elementary Education, English (Second Language), Junior High Schools
BARD, BERNARD – 1968
DESCRIBED ARE THE EFFORTS OF THE EAST HARLEM COMMUNITY AND A NEW YORK CITY PHILANTHROPIST TO REOPEN THE EAST HARLEM NEIGHBORHOOD STUDY CLUB, A STORE-FRONT CENTER PROVIDING STUDY FACILITIES, HOMEWORK HELP, AND INSTRUCTION IN BASIC SKILLS. THE CLUB IS STAFFED BY VOLUNTEERS AND PAID PROFESSIONALS, WITH ADDITIONAL HELP FROM VISTA AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD…
Descriptors: After School Education, Basic Skills, Community Action, Federal Aid
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Educational Evaluation. – 1984
Learning to Read Through the Arts offers intensive reading instruction to Chapter I eligible students through the integration of a total reading program with a total arts program. In 1983-84, the program was offered to a total of 625 general education students, 140 bilingual students, and 100 special education students (all in grades 2-6). Reading…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Art Activities, Bilingual Students, Disadvantaged
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Educational Evaluation. – 1980
This is an evaluation report of a Title I clinical and guidance service program for New York City non-public school students in grades K-12 in 1979-1980. The program provided students in reading and mathematics improvement programs with individual and group sessions with guidance counselors, social workers and/or psychologists. Section one of the…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidance Personnel, Guidance Programs
SCHREIBER, DANIEL – 1960
THE "DEMONSTRATION GUIDANCE PROJECT" (PROJECT 43) WAS PLANNED IN ORDER TO DISCOVER, IDENTIFY, AND STIMULATE ACADEMICALLY ABLE STUDENTS FROM LESS PRIVILEGED GROUPS. THE TALENT SEARCH BEGAN IN 1956 AND WAS PLANNED TO RUN FOR A 6-YEAR PERIOD. STUDENT PARTICIPANTS WERE FROM NEW YORK CITY'S MANHATTANVILLE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL. FORTY-THREE LATER…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Costs, Disadvantaged Youth, Enrichment
Berger, Kenneth – 1975
The 1974-1975 Reading Skills Center component of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I Remedial Services for Eligible Nonpublic School Pupils Program was designed to provide intensive diagnostic-prescriptive reading instruction for students in grades four through eight who had evidence of reading retardation in excess of two and one…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Elementary Education, Grade 4, Grade 5
Sontag, Marvin; And Others – 1969
Focusing on a New York City school district educational project funded in December 1968 and performed under contract with the New York City Board of Education, this publication evaluates the continuation of several 1967-68 Title I activities, including two decentralized parts of the Early Childhood Program--diagnosis and special instruction in…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Diagnosis, Parent Attitudes, Parent Participation
