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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
Download full textCenter for Urban Education, New York, NY. – 1972
The Satellite Academies Program (SAP) is considered to have the following central goals: (1) to improve basic academic skills, (2) to provide meaningful work experience, (3) to develop a job-related educational curriculum, (4) to involve the business community in education, (5) to increase student involvement in the educational process, and (6) to…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Curriculum Development, Employment Qualifications, High Schools
Literacy Assistance Center, New York, NY. – 1986
Following an introduction that states the Adult Literacy Initiative's objectives for fiscal year 1985, this final report presents the bulk of its information in sections on (1) the literacy services of the City University of New York, community-based organizations, and the New York City Board of Education; and (2) the literacy services of the New…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn. Office of Educational Assessment. – 1987
During 1985-86 the School Community Education Program (also known as the Umbrella Program), funded by the New York State Legislature, provided a variety of educational and training experiences to some 25,871 participants, including pre-kindergarten children and their parents; and students, teachers, and supervisors from kindergarten through grade…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academically Gifted, Basic Skills, Computer Literacy
Joiner, Lee M.; Ewing, Norma – 1973
The St. Paul Open School is a nongraded, K-12 school where students progress at their own rate of speed in each area of learning. It is child-centered rather than subject-centered, with emphasis on learning rather than teaching, on cooperation rather than competition. Teachers are imaginative and flexible, acting as guides and counselors rather…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Classes (Groups of Students), Decision Making, Elementary Schools
Perin, Dolores; Flugman, Bert – 1990
The report describes a federally funded 3-year demonstration program for the vocational training of urban young adults with severe learning diasbilities who have left high school special education programs. The program, "The Integrated Skills Vocational Training Program," involved the collaboration of a not-for-profit trade school, the…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Basic Skills, Cooperative Programs, Demonstration Programs
Clesca, Monique; Schulman, Robert – 1984
This multisite project, in its third and final year of funding, served approximately 350 recently immigrated Haitian students of limited English proficiency at three New York City high schools in Brooklyn and Queens. The students varied in their proficiency in Creole, French, and English. The major program goal was to expedite English and native…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Basic Skills, Bilingual Education Programs, Career Awareness
Berney, Tomi D.; Plotkin, Donna – 1990
This report evaluates the implementation and outcome of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title VII program, Choosing Optional Infused Career Education (Project CHOICE) in Springfield Gardens High School in Queens (New York) and Fort Hamilton High School in Brooklyn (New York) for the 1988-89 school year. The project was created to combat…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Dropout Prevention, Educational Objectives, Educationally Disadvantaged
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Educational Evaluation. – 1982
This report documents the 1981-82 evaluation of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title I, Part B, Institutional Facilities Program carried out through the Division of Special Education of the New York City public schools. Using a diagnostic-prescriptive methodology, the program provided after-school and pull-out individualized remedial…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Basic Skills, Career Education, Delinquency
Denny, Verna Haskins; And Others – 1989
The first phase of a longitudinal study of the factors that encourage adults to enter and remain in adult literacy programs and the effects program participation has on their lives obtained information on students in a sample of 70 classes in 1988-89. The sample was stratified on literacy provider agency, whether the class was basic education (BE)…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills
Fox, David J.; And Others – 1968
This New York City school district educational project dealt with a projected 13,605 children who changed schools under the Free Choice Open Enrollment Program. The program allows parents to transfer their children from predominantly Negro-Puerto Rican schools to schools with better educational facilities and a more varied ethnic population. The…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Black Students, Class Size, Educational Attitudes
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn. Office of Educational Assessment. – 1985
The Adult Basic Education/High School Equivalency Services Program of the New York City Board of Education's Office of Adult and Continuing Education provides services for out-of-school youth and adults at over 300 sites throughout the city. Instruction is provided in the areas of basic literacy, basic education, high school equivalency, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students
