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Burrell, Lewis P. – 1988
A mathematics program was developed and implemented at the Jefferson County (Ohio) Joint Vocational School to raise the mathematics functioning of special needs students by using interactive computers. Special needs students were pre- and posttested with the Wide Range Achievement Test, Arithmetic section. The 11th-grade students functioning at…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Disadvantaged Youth, Exceptional Persons
Hatala, Catherine C. – 1982
A program designed to improve the reading, writing, and thinking skills of low achieving poverty level high school juniors was developed for use in a Pennsylvania high school. The program uses the Pennsylvania Reading Comprehension Plan's four critical experiences of (1) responding to literature, (2) self-selected and sustained silent reading, (3)…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Content Area Reading, Critical Thinking, Disadvantaged Youth
Download full textBailey, Jerry D.; And Others – 1996
This paper describes the programs at the University of Kansas (UK) School of Education to encourage diversity. The TRIO programs, which include a regular Upward Bound program, an Upward Bound Math and Science Center, an Educational Talent Search, and a McNair Scholars Program, report to the associate dean for teacher education and play a key role…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Diversity (Institutional), Early Childhood Education, Educational Finance
