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Download full textOpperman, Prudence; And Others – 1983
The Promotional Gates Program was initiated in the New York City Public Schools in order to set and maintain citywide curriculum and performance standards, identify students unable to meet the minimum standards, and provide remedial instruction. Under this program, the promotional policy sets "gates" at grades 4 and 7; students unable to…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade Repetition, Grade 4
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Educational Evaluation. – 1984
Project Esperanza supplemented the basic special education program for handicapped students with limited English proficiency (LEP) by providing (1) staff training and consultation, (2) materials development, identification, and evaluation, (3) assistance in the diagnosis of educational needs and the prescription of instructional strategies, (4)…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Bilingual Education Programs, Cultural Background, Diagnostic Teaching
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA. – 1969
The More Effective Schools project, an effort to make the schools better able to solve the basic reading and arithmetic problems of disadvantaged children, brought about a reorganization and expansion of the teaching and administrative staffs of elementary schools in New York City. The combined black and Puerto Rican population in the project…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education
Myers, David E.; Mayer, Daniel P. – 2003
This brief paper is a response to a reanalysis (Krueger & Zhu, 2003) of a report (Mayer, Peterson, Myers, Tuttle, & Howell, 2002). The response is offered by two of the authors (Myers & Mayer) of the original report. The original report presented an evaluation of the impact of vouchers on students' reading and mathematics achievement…
Descriptors: Black Students, Educational Finance, Educational Vouchers, Elementary Education
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
FRANKEL, EDWARD – 1966
PRESENTED IN THIS REPORT IS AN INTERIM EVALUATION OF A NEW YORK CITY PROGRAM TO TRANSFER NINTH-GRADE PUPILS FROM 38 TRUNCATED JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS TO ACADEMIC HIGH SCHOOLS. AS THE FIRST STEP TOWARD A CITY-WIDE SYSTEM OF 4-YEAR COMPREHENSIVE HIGH SCHOOLS, THE TRANSFER PROGRAM ATTEMPTED TO IMPROVE THE ETHNIC BALANCE IN THE SCHOOLS AND TO MOTIVATE THE…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Attitudes, Curriculum Development
Fox, David J.; And Others – 1968
This report presents the 1967-68 evaluation of New York City's More Effective Schools (MES) project. The evaluation describes the facilities and staff provided by ESEA Title I funds and estimates the effectiveness of the MES schools by comparing them with control schools and special services (SS) schools. Estimates are provided of the impact of…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Arithmetic, Decision Making, Educational Facilities
FOX, DAVID J. – 1967
THIS EVALUATION OF THE SECOND YEAR OF THE FREE CHOICE OPEN ENROLLMENT PROGRAM (OE) IN NEW YORK CITY'S PUBLIC SCHOOLS PRESENTS COMPARATIVE DATA FOR 26 RECEIVING AND 15 SENDING ELEMENTARY AND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS. THE AREAS STUDIED WERE (1) CHILDRENS' CLASSROOM FUNCTIONING, (2) TEACHERS' CLASSROOM FUNCTIONING, (3) SCHOOL APPEARANCE, CLIMATE, AND…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Educational Environment, Elementary Schools, Evaluation Methods
Martin, Peter B. – 1967
Results of the Nelson-Denny Reading Test are used as a screening device for selecting students for remedial work in the Reading and Study Skills Center (R-S) at New York Community College (NYCC). A descriptive analysis of the fall 1967 day session freshmen showed that the average freshman at NYCC was reading at the 12.6 grade level, or .4 grade…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educationally Disadvantaged, Evaluation Methods, Local Norms
Cloward, Robert D. – 1966
This is the report of a demonstration tutorial project which was conducted in New York City as part of the Mobilization for Youth program. Eleven tutorial centers were established in neighborhood elementary schools, and 240 students from local academic and vocational high schools were hired to tutor 544 fourth- and fifth-grade pupils. Each center…
Descriptors: After School Education, Attitude Change, Behavior Change, Control Groups
Abramson, Jacob – 1974
Learning to read is a complex process and necessitates continuity in the school environment -- the factor of primary concern in this study. Three objectives are noted: (1) to determine differences in reading achievement between fifth grade pupils who have been in the same school since the third grade (non-mobile), and those fifth grade pupils who…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Mobility, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Ehrlich, Virginia Z. – 1984
An evaluation of the Astor Program for Gifted Children, introduced in 1973, in the New York City public schools is presented. This study is a follow-up of the "pioneer" pupils (those accepted during 1974-76). Sources of data included: a student questionnaire; student attitude scales; a parent questionnaire; a principal questionnaire; a…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Administrator Attitudes, Adolescents, Elementary Education
Bulkin, Elly; Sica, Michael – 1984
Project BECOME, a mainstreaming program for Hispanic and Haitian students of limited English proficiency, provided instruction in ESL and native language studies, as well as bilingual instruction in social studies, mathematics, science, and typing. The program, which was implemented at Sarah J. Hale High School (located in downtown Brooklyn, New…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Bilingual Education Programs, English (Second Language), French
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
FOX, DAVID J. – 1966
THIS EVALUATIVE REPORT OF A FREE CHOICE-OPEN ENROLLMENT PROGRAM, IN WHICH MINORITY GROUP CHILDREN HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO TRANSFER TO SCHOOLS OUTSIDE THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS, RECORDED THE RESPONSES OF THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS AND TEACHERS IN THE RECEIVING AND SENDING SCHOOLS. ASSESSMENT OF THE PROGRAM WAS BASED ON 2-DAY VISITS TO 63 SCHOOLS TO…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Aspiration, Attendance, Bus Transportation
