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Fort Worth Independent School District, TX. – 1971
Described is the special education component of an early childhood education project for culturally disadvantaged preschool children. The component's purpose was to determine if children deviating from their peers could be educated as an integral part of the regular class. Children with an IQ under 80 were provided individual prescriptions in the…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Diagnostic Teaching, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education
DeLoughry, Thomas J. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1990
The Upward Bound and Student Support Services programs are the largest of five Education Department programs for disadvantaged students. At Southwest Texas Junior College, the struggle to recruit and hold on to students from an impoverished region depends on the constant stretching of federal dollars. (MLW)
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Federal Aid, Higher Education, Hispanic Americans
Burwick, Andrew; Bellotti, Jeanne; Nagatoshi, Charles – US Department of Health and Human Services, Head Start Bureau, 2004
Father involvement enhances children's well-being. A growing body of research supports this conclusion, showing that children with involved fathers exhibit greater school readiness, increased cognitive development, higher levels of empathy, and other positive characteristics (Administration for Children and Families 2004a). Research also indicates…
Descriptors: Fathers, Parent Participation, Early Childhood Education, Federal Programs
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Creamer, Don G.; Hamm, Robert D. – Junior College Journal, 1971
Descriptors: Counseling, Counseling Services, Disadvantaged Youth, Guidance Centers
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Gilmore, M. Christine – Business Education Forum, 1977
Discusses why individualization of learning is needed in inner-city schools and describes a study comparing traditional instruction with programed instruction in teaching shorthand to students in selected inner-city high schools in Dallas, Texas. Procedures, findings, conclusions, and recommendations are included. (HD)
Descriptors: Business Education, Comparative Analysis, Conventional Instruction, Curriculum Development
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2007
"Doors to Discovery"[TM] is an early childhood curriculum that uses thematic units to engage young children and support them as they build an understanding of their world. "Doors to Discovery"[TM] literacy activities are used to encourage children's development in a number of areas identified by research as the foundation for…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Reading, Intervention
US Department of Education, 2008
Six years after passage of No Child Left Behind and midway to the nation's goal of having students on grade level or better in reading and math by 2014, more data than ever before has been collected about the academic performance of American students and schools. Information in this brochure charts student demographics, achievement-to-date and…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Graduation Rate, Federal Legislation, Reading Achievement
Our Lady of the Lake Coll., San Antonio, TX. – 1968
Project Teacher Excellence for Economically Deprived and Culturally Differentiated Americans provides for the search for Mexican-Americans living in economically deprived areas of the Southwest who have potential ability but who would not go to college without financial aid. Those identified and selected for aid are admitted to Our Lady of the…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary School Teachers, Mexican Americans
Kuvlesky, William P.; Gonzalez, Ruth Bagnall – 1974
The report provided findings from a recent Texas study of historical change in educational status projections of rural Black and White teenage boys and girls. The specific research objectives were to determine: (1) the nature and extent of historical change patterns occurring, by race, for educational aspiration, expectation, anticipatory goal…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Anglo Americans, Black Students, Disadvantaged Youth
National Center for Educational Communication (DHEW/NIE), Washington, DC. – 1973
This program initiated by the Central Cities Educational Development Center was designed to offer experiences which lay the groundwork for intellectual development and school achievement to underprivileged children two to five years of age. The Center has assumed a somewhat different composition and focus in each of the four years of its…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary School Students
Kuvlesky, William P.; Dietrich, Katheryn Thomas – 1972
Identical instruments and procedures were used to collect data on military orientations from 98 Black boys who attended predominantly Black high schools in nonmetropolitan East Texas and 111 Blacks attending an all-Black high school in Houston, Texas, during the spring, 1966. The hypotheses tested were (1) that nonmetropolitan Black boys have more…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Aspiration, Attitudes, Blacks
Hanushek, Eric A.; Kain, John F.; Rivkin, Steven G. – 2001
Most students change schools at some point in their academic careers, but some change very frequently, and some schools experience a great deal of turnover. Many researchers, teachers, and administrators argue that mobility harms students, particularly disadvantaged students in high turnover, inner city schools. However, economists emphasize the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Change, Educational Quality
Kane, Thomas J.; Staiger, Douglas O. – 2002
This paper describes incentives established to confront longstanding differences in test performance by race and ethnicity and to set student performance goals. The federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 aspires to set goals for subgroups defined by race/ethnicity, economic disadvantage, disability, and English language learner status. A growing…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Disabilities, Disadvantaged Youth
Just for the Kids, Austin, TX. – 2001
This booklet summarizes findings from Just for the Kids' recent examination of promising practices in Texas Schools. It focuses on those schools that served disadvantaged students yet had high performance over 3 years. The key focus of Just for the Kids is on the students. Schools break down the goals of school reform into manageable chunks,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Improvement, Educational Quality
HUBBARD, JAMES L.; ZARATE, LEONORE T. – 1967
THE CULTURALLY DISADVANTAGED CHILD, ALTHOUGH VERY VERBAL IN HIS LOCAL ENVIRONMENT, IS USUALLY VERBALLY DEFICIENT WITH RESPECT TO SOCIETY AS A WHOLE. PART OF THE ANSWER TO PROVIDING A MORE EFFECTIVE LANGUAGE EDUCATION TO THE CULTURALLY DEPRIVED YOUTH IS ENRICHMENT OR COMPENSATORY PROGRAMS LIKE HEAD START. TO INVESTIGATE THE EFFECT OF THE AUSTIN…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth
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