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Fisher, Thomas H. – 1979
As a result of the 1976 Educational Accountability Act, minimal competency tests were developed for grades 3, 5, 8 and 11 by the Florida State Board of Education. Results of the first administration of the 11th grade tests showed that the failure rate for minority black students was much higher than for white students. Results of the tests…
Descriptors: Accountability, Basic Skills, Blacks, Criterion Referenced Tests
Download full textBowen, Raymond C. – 1993
In this speech the black president of an urban community college discusses how his experiences as an African American has affected his performance as the leader of his school. He suggests that people from the ghettos tend more naturally to develop genuine understanding of fairness, that African Americans bring a vision of leadership that stresses…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Basic Skills, Black Achievement, Black History
Literacy Beat, 1987
A seminar was held at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in August 1987 on the subject, "Illiteracy and the Underclass: Are They Permanent?" The contributions of Chall, Comer, Epstein, Dash, and Rivera identified where illiteracy problems begin--in families with intergenerational patterns of illiteracy. Problems in estimating the numbers of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Blacks
Atmore, Eric – 1992
The policy of apartheid, until recently one of the dominant aspects of South African society, has caused grievous harm to that nation's non-white population, especially black women and children. Most black children have not grown up in stable, two-parent families due to migrant labor policies and low wages. Housing, health care, nutrition, and…
Descriptors: Apartheid, Basic Skills, Blacks, Child Health
Lieberman, Janet E. – 1979
Designed as an alternative program to reduce absenteeism in four high schools in the Bronx, a career education and academic upgrading experiment placed sixty ninth graders in a special area of Bronx Community College. The students, recruited from among disadvantaged potential dropouts (mostly blacks and Hispanics), attended half-day sessions at…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Basic Skills, Blacks
Nelson, Neil; Martin, William – 1976
Designed to observe changes in biracial student behavior brought about by Project BACSTOP (a series of structured experiences in a variety of wilderness settings meant to bring students of different races together in stressful adventure activities geared to promote interaction, communication, and cooperation), this evaluation studied five…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Affective Behavior, Basic Skills, Blacks
Center for Literacy, Inc., Philadelphia, PA. – 1993
This document reports on a project conducted to develop a curriculum to enable adult learners to explore their own and others' cultures while participating in reading, writing, math, English-as-a-Second-Language, or social studies course offered by adult basic education providers throughout Pennsylvania. The curriculum manual in this report…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Blacks, Cultural Pluralism
