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Download full textHopkins, Thomas F. – 1976
This paper describes the Graphics Expression System Reading Center Program, which provided students with limited learning motivation and with below norm achievement in reading, as well as those students reading on and above grade level with the opportunity to use the compact recording studio equipment in the production of television shows. The…
Descriptors: Audio Equipment, Audiovisual Instruction, Failure, Grade 7
Fox, David J.; And Others – 1969
The summer program for junior high and intermediate school pupils in 1969, supported by the State Urban Education Aid Program in New York, offered a six-week remediation and enrichment program for public and non-public school pupils. The program included an Academy in the Creative Arts, an Institute in Mathematics and Science, a school for the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Enrichment Activities, Industrial Arts, Intermediate Grades
Peer reviewedBackner, Amie Judith – Social Science Record, 1993
Contends that students enjoy social studies instruction more when new information can be personalized and reshaped into original material. Reports on the content and teaching methods used in an ancient middle east unit designed for the sixth grade. Includes three charts and one table that illustrate the instructional strategies. (CFR)
Descriptors: Ancient History, Archaeology, Biographies, Class Activities
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Div. of Strategic Planning/Research and Development. – 1991
A study described the 1989-90 Chapter 1 Reading Skills Center program, and assessed the effectiveness of its implementation. The program provides supplementary, individualized instruction in reading and writing to Chapter 1-eligible students in New York City nonpublic schools. During 1989-90, the program served 284 students in grades 4 through 8…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Research, High Risk Students, Instructional Effectiveness
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Research, Evaluation, and Assessment. – 1989
This report evaluates the effectiveness of the Urban Academy program, a dropout prevention demonstration program involving a collaborative effort between Community School District 10 in the Bronx (New York) and the Victim Services Agency (VSA), a social service agency, to provide increased instructional support and social services to 78 at-risk…
Descriptors: Attendance, Dropout Prevention, Educational Improvement, Engineering Education
Abbott, Muriel M.; Lisa-Johnson, Barbara – 1988
Fifth and eighth grade students in New York City participated in a citywide science survey for the fourth consecutive year in 1987. These surveys were designed to assess overall achievement in the pre-high school grades and to provide school, district and citywide summary information about student performance in basic areas of the science…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Biology, Chemistry
Grannis, Joseph; And Others – 1988
This evaluation of the second-year (1986-87) implementation of the middle school Dropout Prevention Program (DPP) of the New York City (New York) Dropout Prevention Initiative (DPI) focuses on student characteristics, program services, and outcomes. The 29 DPP middle schools were divided into two models. Fifteen of the schools comprise Project…
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, High Risk Students
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Research, Evaluation, and Assessment. – 1991
An evaluation was done of the New York City Public Schools' Project Porvenir. During the 1990-91 school year, Project Porvenir operated at 4 elementary schools and served 501 Spanish-speaking students in grades 4, 5, and 6, of whom 85 percent were eligible for the free lunch program. The students were of limited English proficiency and were served…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Career Education, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth
Peer reviewedLevine, Daniel U.; Sherk, John K. – Peabody Journal of Education, 1989
Describes reforms at a Bronx intermediate school which registered large gains in students' comprehension performance. The success depended on active, engaged learning, intensive assistance for low achievers, personal development of students, coordination of instruction, availability of instructional support personnel, outstanding leadership, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Change Strategies, Comprehension, Educational Change
Colligan, Jerome H.; And Others – 1975
This report contains a tabular summary of the results of the April 1974 city-wide reading test administered in Grades 2 through 9 in all New York City public schools. Test results are presented at three levels for comparative analysis: New York City with other major cities, community school districts within N.Y.C., and community schools within…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Community Schools, Comparative Analysis, Educational Assessment
Abramson, Jacob – 1975
A previous study that demonstrates that fifth grade non-mobile pupils have higher reading achievement and read at or above grade norm level than comparable fifth grade mobile pupils (regardless of their ethnicity and socioeconomic status) forms the basis for this report. Here, the focus is to follow-up the non-mobile and mobile groups of the…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Mobility, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
FRANKEL, EDWARD – 1967
THIS REPORT EVALUATES THE PROGRESS OF 14 PILOT INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLS ORGANIZED IN SEPTEMBER 1966 INTO EITHER A 6-7-8 OR A 5-6-7 GRADE STRUCTURE. NINE OF THE SCHOOLS SERVE CHILDREN IN ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED AREAS. A SPECIALLY REVISED CURRICULUM WAS INTRODUCED INTO THE PILOT SCHOOLS AT THE SIXTH-GRADE LEVEL. EXTENSIVE TEACHER TRAINING PRECEDED…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Ancillary School Services, Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Design
