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Download full textEducational Priorities Panel, New York, NY. – 1993
A look at the figures in a recent report, "The State of Learning," reveals that for the students in New York City, who are almost one third of all those in the State's public schools system, the state of learning is deplorable. The children who are most at risk receive fewer resources than their more advantaged peers. Minorities…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Comparative Analysis, Disadvantaged Youth
Connecticut State Dept. of Higher Education, Hartford. – 1994
This report describes the activities and results of three programs instituted under Connecticut's Minority Advancement Program (MAP) to promote racial and ethnic diversity in Connecticut public higher education. The Connecticut Collegiate Awareness and Preparation Program (ConnCAP), which enrolled 1,585 students in 1993-94, is designed to give…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism, Disadvantaged Youth
Anderson, Judith – 1993
This working paper examines funding to U.S. school districts and public schools in accordance with Chapter 1 of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 as amended in 1988. The report discusses the background of the legislation, describes its provisions, and presents results from the Schools and Staffing Survey conducted in…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Legislation
Dianda, Marcella R.; And Others – 1993
Success for All is a comprehensive schoolwide restructuring program that has improved reading achievement, increased attendance, reduced special education referrals and placements, and virtually eliminated within-grade retentions in high-poverty elementary schools serving African American children. It is noted that as Success for All has expanded…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education Programs, Cooperative Learning, Disadvantaged Youth
Gallagher, Michael P. – 1993
The relationship between success on proficiency tests and poverty has been widely discussed. This study explores the use of a neighborhood indicator of socioeconomic status based on school lunch participation of elementary school students in that neighborhood, and examines the relationship of poverty to success on a high school proficiency test in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Correlation, Disadvantaged Youth
Southard, Margarida F. – 1991
In the 1989-90 school year, 13 dropout prevention programs were implemented in the Leon County (Florida) School District. The Comprehensive Dropout Prevention Program (CDPP) for Leon County schools included Educational Alternatives Programs, a Teenage Parent Program, a Substance Abuse Program, and Youth Services Programs. This report presents…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Attitudes, Counseling, Disadvantaged Youth
Thompson, Denise R. – 1989
This document comprises an evaluation of the 1988 METRO Achievement Program, a summer educational program to help develop the academic potential of primarily Black and Hispanic girls entering the seventh and eighth grades in Chicago. The 5-week program included the following components: (1) mathematics, science, and communication skills classes;…
Descriptors: Black Students, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Females
National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, Washington, DC. – 1989
This report seeks to identify and make policy recommendations concerning major urban issues confronting the Bush Administration. The Division of Urban Affairs of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC) established working groups and commissioned papers on the following six key urban policy issues: (1)…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Dislocated Workers, Economic Development, Economically Disadvantaged
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Office of Youth Programs. – 1980
This volume (and volume 2 of this report) are products of the knowledge development effort implemented under the mandate of the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977 (YEDPA). This report on assessment of the Job Corps presents a large array of studies ranging from rigorous impact and benefit-cost evaluations to survey of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cost Effectiveness, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth
Saint Louis Univ., MO. – 1980
This report contains evaluations of various phases of the Vocational Exploration in the Private Sector Program (VEPS). (VEPS is designed to provide youth with exposure to jobs available in the private sector through observation of such jobs, instruction, and, if appropriate, limited practical experience so long as the participant does not…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Exploration, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth
Becker, Wesley C; And Others – 1979
The focus of future Follow Through research should be oriented toward showing what can be done in order to offer information to both federal and local planners on which systems of curriculum design, classroom management, and parent involvement appear to be most effective. To assure this goal, the issues of program efficacy and implementation…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Analysis of Covariance, Control Groups
Rosario, Jose; And Others – 1980
This volume is the first of a series reporting evaluation findings on the impact of Project Developmental Continuity (PDC) on institutions, classroom staff, parents and children from the time the children entered Head Start through the first grade. PDC was begun in 1974 with the purpose of ensuring that disadvantaged children receive continuous…
Descriptors: Child Development, Class Activities, Control Groups, Cooperative Programs
Kendall, Lesley; Rutt, Simon; Schagen, Ian – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2005
The Excellence in Cities (EiC) policy was launched in 1999 with the aim of improving the attainment of all pupils in disadvantaged urban areas. Further Phases were launched in 2000 and 2001, by when EiC covered about a third of the secondary schools in England and over 60 per cent of the minority ethnic pupils in England attended schools in EiC…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Schools, Academic Achievement, Urban Areas, Foreign Countries
Myers, David E.; Moore, Mary T. – 1997
This monograph presents the executive summary of a study evaluating the first-year impacts and program operations of Upward Bound, a federal pre-college program designed to help economically disadvantaged students complete high school and gain access to post-secondary education. In 1996, 45,000 students participated in the program through projects…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Access to Education, College Bound Students, Compensatory Education
St. Pierre, Robert; And Others – 1995
The Even Start program was implemented to improve the educational opportunities of U.S. children and adults by integrating community early childhood education and adult education for parents into a unified family literacy initiative. This document is the final project report of the National Evaluation of the Even Start Family Literacy Program, a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adults, Disadvantaged Environment
