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Download full textHill, Paul T. – 1993
This document addresses the difficulties of urban education, particularly relating to inner cities that contain immigrant and minority students, and argues that schools contribute to the problems of today's urban youth and that schools must do a better job of educating students. It recognizes that schools are burdened by the urban environment but…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
Alves-Zervos, K. L., Ed.; Shafer, J. R., Ed. – 1993
This six-article document examines the research base that can be used in formulating plans to improve the chances of schooling success for all students. Each article summarizes well-confirmed knowledge in a particular area, giving attention first to the research literature, and then to the tested experiences and practices of leading professionals.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Research
Public/Private Ventures, Philadelphia, PA. – 1984
An independent evaluation of the Career Explorations program found it to be worthy of both continuation and replication. Career Explorations is a summer youth program operated by Hunter College (New York) in cooperation with The Coalition of 100 Black Women, and supported by The Commonwealth Fund. Its aim is to help minority New York City high…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Counseling, Cooperative Programs, Educational Opportunities
Slovacek, Simeon P.; And Others – 1993
This report describes the first operating year of Project Support, a 3-year gang/drug prevention program aimed at elementary students in six inner city schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District. The project involves the implementation of nine strategies described in the research literature as being effective in drug/gang prevention. These…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Career Awareness, Community Involvement, Community Services
Higgins, Catherine; And Others – 1991
This report presents an independent evaluation of E. Lang's I Have a Dream (IHAD) model intervention for disadvantaged youth as it has been implemented in three schools in the Greater Washington (District of Columbia) area. Sixty IHAD participants are randomly selected as they enter sixth or seventh grade for higher education tuition guarantees…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Comparative Analysis, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention
International Center for Integrative Studies, New York, NY. – 1988
The Door is a youth center in New York, New York, that has the capacity to respond to a myriad of adolescent needs and problems. Over the past 15 years it has serviced over 100,000 teenagers, 53.4 percent of whom were Black, 23.1 percent Hispanic, 20 percent White, 3.5 percent Asian and other; they come from all over the New York City area.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Alcoholism, Athletics, Counseling
