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Bastone, Linda – 1990
The evaluation report describes the Special Education Training and Resource Center (SETRC) program in New York City, designed to provide knowledge and skills to prepare parents of handicapped children as well as personnel in general education, special education, occupational education, and support services to work effectively with handicapped…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Dissemination, Inservice Teacher Education
Dick, Mae, Ed. – Information Update, 1989
This special issue of a quarterly newsletter describes a number of approaches to staff development in adult basic education and English-as-a-Second-Language programs being practiced in New York City. It includes an editorial about the necessity of making the resource commitment to provide full-time jobs and decent health coverage for staff.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Clearinghouses, Demonstrations (Educational)
Miller, Ronald C.; And Others – 1987
The report documents evaluation by the Office of Educational Assessment of implementation by the New York City school system of the State Incentive Grant to Improve Pupil Performance which provided training to 5,000 teachers and 3,400 paraprofessionals serving handicapped students in elementary, intermediate, and junior high self-contained…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Junior High Schools
Williams, Thelma M. – 1967
This report evaluates a program designed to develop a new curriculum for disadvantaged eighth and ninth grade students in New York City who were performing poorly in school (academically, socially, emotionally) and who appeared likely to become school dropouts. The evaluation--representing the work of a multidiscipline team of specialists in…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides, Disadvantaged Youth
Chrein, George – Agricultural Education Magazine, 1976
The rapid growth of vocational ornamental horticulture programs in and around New York City and the wide variations in teachers' occupational and educational backgrounds necessitated inservice assistance in program implementation. The Board of Education offered a series of hands-on skills shops based on occupational competencies teachers wanted to…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Beginning Teachers, Inservice Teacher Education, Job Skills
Jarvis, Carolyn; And Others – Research Brief: An O.E.A. Bulletin Linking Research with Educational Practice, 1988
New York City has implemented all-day kindergarten programs, reduced the size of primary grade classes, and proposed that the public schools provide pre-kindergarten programs for 4-year-olds by 1989. In the process of program implementation, much has been learned about large-scale efforts aimed at young children. It is known that simply realigning…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Class Size, Early Childhood Education, Educational Planning
Rossi, Lillian – 1982
This book records activities of a New York City Writing Project seminar and the writing of some of the 35 students in it. The account reflects how the students wrestled with different points of view, learning how to respond in writing groups and discovering themselves as writers in their process journals. Among the appendixes is a guide for…
Descriptors: Group Experience, Inservice Teacher Education, Learning Experience, Peer Teaching
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Educational Evaluation. – 1980
This is an evaluation of the Trilingual Education Learning Environment Program (TELE) which provided training to teacher interns in New York City. The program sought to improve the linguistic performance of limited English proficient students by training Spanish/English and Italian/English teachers in Title I designated schools, and to serve as a…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Elementary Education, English (Second Language), Inservice Teacher Education
GEWIRTZ, MARVIN H.; AND OTHERS – 1966
A 7-WEEK SUMMER INSTITUTE COURSE FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS, SUPERVISORS, AND ADMINISTRATORS WHO WORK WITH DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN WAS EVALUATED BY QUESTIONNAIRE. THE PURPOSE OF THE EVALUATION WAS TO (1) MEASURE THE IMMEDIATE IMPACT OF THE COURSE ON THE PARTICIPANTS, (2) OBTAIN A SELF-ESTIMATE OF THE PARTICIPANTS' ATTITUDES, (3) EXPLORE…
Descriptors: Administrators, Disadvantaged Youth, Evaluation, Inservice Teacher Education
Miller, Ronald C.; And Others – 1987
The report documents New York City's Office of Educational Assessment's evaluation of the Division of Special Education Public Law 89-313 program for the 1986-87 school year. The program is intended to provided supplemental services suited to the individual needs of participating handicapped students based upon their individual education plans…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Individualized Education Programs, Inservice Teacher Education
Mei, Dolores M.; And Others – 1986
The Degrees of Reading Power (DRP) Pilot Project was implemented at 13 New York City high schools during the 1985-1986 school year. The project involved training English Instructional Services (EIS) teachers in techniques for teaching reading holistically and then assessing the improvement on the DRP reading comprehension test. During the 1986…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Holistic Approach, Inservice Teacher Education, Program Effectiveness
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn. Office of Educational Assessment. – 1985
The Bilingual Pupil Services (BPS) Program has been operating for 11 years in 24 New York City schools. During the 1984-85 school year BPS provided bilingual instruction to 1,616 Hispanic students and (for the second year) to Chinese students of limited English proficiency (LEP) in grades one through six. BPS has two functions: providing services…
Descriptors: Attendance, Bilingual Education Programs, Chinese Americans, Elementary Education
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn. Office of Educational Assessment. – 1986
During the 1985-86 fiscal year, the Bilingual Pupil Services (BPS) Project was selected by the U.S. Department of Education as an exemplary Chapter 1 Project, suitable for national dissemination and replication. BPS provides instruction in English as a second language (ESL), bilingual reading, and mathematics to students of limited English…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Chinese Americans, Elementary Secondary Education
Heintz, Paul; Kastner, Sheldon – 1975
This document provides descriptions, a list of evaluation procedures, findings and summaries, conclusions, and recommendations for each of twenty-one programs held in New York City Schools. Programs for parents, teachers, tutors, reading, mathematics, English, educational development, basic skills, Afro-American history, and mental hygiene are…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Educational Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
SMILEY, MAJORIE B.; AND OTHERS – 1964
THE PURPOSE WAS TO GATHER RESOURCE MATERIAL AND PRODUCE CURRICULUM MATERIALS DEALING WITH EDUCATION FOR TEACHERS IN DEPRESSED AREAS. OBSERVATIONS WERE MADE IN FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND FOUR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS IN CULTURALLY DISADVANTAGED AREAS OF HARLEM. INTERVIEWS WERE CONDUCTED WITH SCHOOL PERSONNEL. ANOTHER STUDY WAS MADE OF THE EXPERIENCES…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Bibliographies, Curriculum Development, Disadvantaged
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