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Download full textYanping, Ann – 1994
The Helpful Opportunities for Pupil Enrichment (Project HOPE) was an Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title VII-funded project in its third year in 1993-94. It operated at three intermediate schools in New York City. In the year evaluated, Project HOPE served 365 Spanish- and Chinese-speaking students in grades 6 through 8 who were…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Career Counseling, Chinese Americans
Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, DC. – 1994
Project Adelante, established in 1988 at Kean College of New Jersey, is sponsored by the New Jersey Department of Higher Education, and is currently the only "College Bound" program targeting the Hispanic-American population. Adelante ("onward" in Spanish) aims to improve the high school graduation rate of Hispanic students and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Bound Students, Counseling, Dropout Prevention
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Health, Education, and Human Services Div. – 1995
This study compared the relative effectiveness of grants and loans in helping low-income students stay in college until graduation. The study analyzed two student-level databases. One database contained data on a national sample of high school seniors who began full-time study at four-year colleges and traced them through college. The other…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Databases
Des Moines Public Schools, IA. – 1991
The Des Moines Public Schools' New Horizons Program provides supportive services such as counseling, attendance monitoring, career-related instruction, and work experience to dropout-prone high school students and their families in order to improve students' school achievement and increase their graduation rate. Program services make it possible…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Budgets, Dropout Prevention, Economically Disadvantaged
Wilkinson, David; And Others – 1993
This report presents information on the effectiveness, including cost effectiveness, of many programs of the Austin (Texas) Independent School District (AISD). In 1991-92, the AISD Office of Research and Evaluation (ORE) reviewed 85 programs or program components. Cost effectiveness was calculated for 18 programs using an achievement effect…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education Programs, Class Size, Compensatory Education
Collier, Walter V.; And Others – 1987
Through Project Learning through Industry and Volunteer Educators (Project LIVE), the Children's Aid Society has been addressing problems of literacy and school dropout in an educational partnership between junior high schools in New York City and a number of major corporations. LIVE brings together junior high school students (grades 7 and 8) who…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Cooperative Programs, Corporate Support, Dropout Prevention
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
Berney, Tomi D.; Stern, Lucia – 1990
The Career Awareness Program (Project CAP) served 244 Chinese-speaking students, most of limited English proficiency, at 2 intermediate schools. The project's aim was to encourage students to stay in school by acquainting them with career opportunities available to high school graduates. Activities included bilingual career awareness classes,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Career Awareness, Chinese, Computer Literacy
Dayton, Charles; And Others – 1989
During the 1987-88 school year, 12 academy programs were operating in California under state sponsorship, including the two original Peninsula Academies in operation since 1981, and 10 replications of these, called Partnership Academies. The academies are designed to reduce the number of dropouts among at-risk high school youth. They combine a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cooperative Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention
Nicolaidis, Mary; Sica, Michael – 1984
The major goal of Project SPEED (at Fort Hamilton High School, Brooklyn, New York) was dropout prevention. In its first year of operation, 1982-83, the project provided English as a Second Language (ESL) instruction, bilingual instruction in basic skills required for graduation, and guidance services to approximately 300 limited English proficient…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Arabs, Attendance, Bilingual Education Programs
Cleveland Public Schools, OH. Dept. of Research and Analysis. – 1984
This is a group of reports evaluating the 1983-84 results of twelve programs funded by the Disadvantaged Pupil Program Fund in the Cleveland Public Schools. The programs evaluated are (1) the Classroom Support Program; (2) the Cultural Enrichment Experiences Project; (3) the Internal Suspension Room Program, for dropout prevention; (4) the…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Compensatory Education, Counseling, Cultural Awareness
Austin, M. Carter – 1981
The Three-Tier Vocational Education Program serves economically disadvantaged and handicapped high school students in Duplin County, North Carolina. It is designed to assist these students in developing job-seeking, job-getting, and job-keeping skills in a partnership with high schools, James Sprunt Technical College, and the employing community.…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Blacks, Community Colleges, Disabilities
James J. Kemple – 2001
Career academies are characterized by these three basic features: a school-within-a-school organizational structure, curricula that combine academic and career or technical courses based on a career theme, and partnerships with local employers. In a 10-year longitudinal study of the academy model, begun in 1993 in 9 schools around the country,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Education, Career Academies, Dropout Prevention
Robledo, Maria del Refugio – 1990
A study was done to evaluate Partners for Valued Youth (PVY), an instructional cross-age tutoring program in San Antonio (Texas) designed to reduce dropout rates among Hispanic limited-English proficient (LEP) middle-school children, who are at risk of leaving school. The program has these students tutor younger, elementary school students. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cross Age Teaching, Dropout Prevention, Elementary Education
Augustin, Marc A. – 1993
The Alternative Basic Comprehension Program (Project A.B.C.) for bilingual high school students was a special alternative instructional program funded by Title VII for the third year at two high schools in the Bronx. In the year under review, Project A.B.C. served 260 students of limited English proficiency (LEP). Participating students received…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Career Awareness, Community Involvement, Curriculum Development
