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Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement, 2016
The Canoemobile program serves as a floating classroom that provides fun and engaging, water-based activities to connect urban youth to the natural world through hands-on, outdoor learning on local waterways in cities across America. The results of the program evaluation suggest that Canoemobile is meeting its primary objectives of engaging…
Descriptors: Urban Youth, Physical Environment, Outdoor Education, Adventure Education
Montgomery, Denise; Rogovin, Peter; Persaud, Neromanie – Wallace Foundation, 2013
How can high-quality arts programs attract and retain low-income urban tweens? Drawing on hundreds of interviews with young people, their families, leaders of exemplary programs and others nationwide, this report offers some answers, including 10 principles for developing effective programming. An infographic illustrating key findings, a report…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Art Education, Urban Youth, Low Income Groups
Hill, Mandy J.; Hallmark, Camden J.; McNeese, Marlene; Blue, Nike; Ross, Michael W. – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2014
The goal of this paper was to determine the effectiveness of the HIP HOP for HIV Awareness intervention, an innovative model utilising an exchange of an HIV test for a hip hop concert ticket, in a metropolitan city among African American youth and young adults. A subset of intervention participants participated in standardised testing, sex…
Descriptors: African American Culture, Popular Culture, Health Promotion, Prevention
McFadden, Ledyard – Phi Delta Kappan, 2009
Winners and finalists for the annual Broad Prize for Urban Education have consistently outperformed peer districts serving similar student populations. What makes the difference? These districts consistently demonstrate a learning loop that influences the district's ability to learn, which ultimately influences student opportunities to learn.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Urban Education, Academic Achievement, School Districts
Inverness Research Associates, 2007
This module provides a set of quantitative snapshots of the Community Science Workshops (CSWs) to complement the other reports that comprise the CSW Evaluation Portfolio--the Description of CSWs, the Benefits to Youth, and the Evaluation Brief modules--and to build a solid representation of the scope and scale of the CSW's work and…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Science Activities, Workshops, Disadvantaged
Fleming, Jacqueline – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2012
In this important resource, Dr. Fleming (a noted expert in the field of minority retention) draws on educational evaluations she has developed in the course of her distinguished career. This book analyzes the common factors and the role institutional characteristics play in minority student retention to show what really works in increasing…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Institutional Characteristics, Minority Group Students, School Holding Power
Inverness Research Associates, 2007
This paper takes a descriptive look at Community Science Workshops (CSWs). This paper discusses what CSW is, how it arose and spread, how local CSWs are structured and led, and what programs and experiences they offer to youth. (Contains 2 footnotes.)
Descriptors: Community Programs, Science Activities, Workshops, Disadvantaged
Cuero, Kimberley K.; Kaylor, Maria – International Journal of Multicultural Education, 2010
This case study examines José, a bilingual Latino fifth-grader, and his complex and dynamic engagements in "travesuras" (mischievous behaviors). José's "travesuras" served to disassociate him from being labeled a "schoolboy." This disassociation was evident in how José: (1) renounced "school-like" work and…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Grade 5, Labeling (of Persons), Case Studies
Inverness Research Associates, 2007
The people at Inverness Research Associates spent 12 years studying Community Science Workshops (CSW) in California and in six other states. They gathered statistics on the scale, scope, and cost-efficiency of CSW services to youth. They observed youth at work in the shops--taking apart computers, repairing bikes, growing plants, and so on--and…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Science Activities, Workshops, Nontraditional Students

Fusarelli, Lance D. – Education and Urban Society, 1999
Describes the early experience of Texas with charter schools, which have been promoted as a way to restructure urban education through schools that are smaller, less bureaucratized, and more attuned to student and community needs. Discusses barriers to charter-school success and prospects for urban-school reform if charter schools are not…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Institutional Characteristics

D'Andrea, Michael; Bradley, Loretta – Journal of Humanistic Education and Development, 1995
Reports on a study conducted to assess the different types of worries that Mexican American and white students experience during their intermediate and secondary school years. Limits to the generalizability of the findings are reviewed. Implications for the practice of school counseling are discussed. (Author/LKS)
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adolescents, Counseling Techniques, Cross Cultural Training

Ellard, Charles John – 1974
This study investigates the post-high school influence of the In-School Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC) on the earning capacity of participatns in Houston, Texas. The influence of NYC participation is investigated employing a methodology of a control group design together with data analyses using multiple regression and analysis of covariance. The…
Descriptors: Dropout Programs, Graduation, High School Students, Income
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1974
In January 1970, the Department of Labor restructured its Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC) out-of-school program and made age limits for entering the program more restrictive. Education, skill training, and work experience were emphasized. The restructured NYC-2 program was carried out in urban or growth areas, but the original NYC-1 program was…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Organizations, Dropout Programs, Federal Programs
Guerra, Roberto S.; Schulman, Sam – 1974
Evaluation and documentation of the type and quality of occupational training that is available to minority high school students was presented in this study. The school-to-work transition for a tri-ethnic population (black, Anglo, and Mexican American) was compared three different ways--among ethnic groups, within ethnic groups by vocational…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Attitude Change, Blacks, Career Education

Coppock, Marjorie L. – Equity & Excellence in Education, 1995
Describes a pilot mentoring program that involved 19 college students working with preadolescent and adolescent at-risk Hispanic youth in a Texas border city. The program, which consisted of 10 weekly classes in citizenship awareness and community participation and involvement, focused on dropout prevention and preparation for citizenship. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Citizenship Education, College Students, Community Involvement
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