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Download full textNew York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Educational Evaluation. – 1981
The Summer Jobs for Youth Program (1981) was established by the New York City Partnership to develop private sector summer jobs for economically disadvantaged youth. The evaluation of the program was based upon a telephone survey of company executives, job site supervisors, youth workers who participated in the program, companies who made summer…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, High Schools, Job Training, School Business Relationship
GERARD, ROBERT A. – 1966
THE PROGRAM, DESIGNED TO EXPERIMENT WITH NEW METHODS OF EMPLOYING YOUTHS FROM LOW- AND MARGINAL-INCOME FAMILIES, EMPLOYED 170 YOUTHS AGED 16 TO 21 IN IMPROVING AND DEVELOPING VACANT AREAS FOR RECREATION IN DECLINING NEIGHBORHOODS. THE LONGER RANGE GOALS OF THE PROJECT WERE TO ENCOURAGE THE YOUTHS TO PREPARE THEMSELVES FOR SKILLED EMPLOYMENT AND TO…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Indigenous Personnel, Neighborhood Improvement
Food Research and Action Center, New York, NY. – 1974
This report is the result of a 2-year study of existing day care and summer feeding programs sponsored by the USDA undertaken to provide background information, define the current status, determine restraints and make recommendations for improvement in such programs. A history of the creation of the Special Food Service Program for Children…
Descriptors: Breakfast Programs, Day Care, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary School Students
Kerr, Frances M.; Russell, Valerie E. – 1968
A talent development project at Mount Holyoke College, part of A Better Chance (ABC)-Independent Schools Talent Search program, was offered during the summer of 1968 to 71 disadvantaged high school students from 13 states. Major aims of the program were to help these students with college potential to strengthen their academic skills and…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Disadvantaged Youth, English, Enrichment Activities
Resurreccion, Richard L. – 1973
To help teachers develop effective procedures for dealing with disadvantaged vocational students, the Baltimore City Public Schools sponsored a summer workshop in cooperation with the College of Education at the University of Maryland. As a result of this workshop, teachers were to a) become sensitive to the problems of disadvantaged students, b)…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Industrial Arts Teachers, Inservice Teacher Education, Institutes (Training Programs)
Kaufman, Maurice – 1973
The summer 1973 Title I, Elementary Secondary Education Act of 1965 project was conducted in three communities of the Silver Lake Regional School District; Halifax, Kingston, and Plympton. The program consisted of instruction in reading, mathematics, physical education, art, speech therapy, and counseling and psychological testing. The target…
Descriptors: Art Education, Counseling Services, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged
Newton Public Schools, West Newton, MA. – 1970
A summer program conducted in two schools involved 154 nursery school and kindergarten children. Eligibility was determined by economic criteria, ability to attend the full 5-week program, and probability of benefit from the program. Pupil-teacher ratios were generally 9 to 1; part-time psychological and speech services and a nurse were also…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Disadvantaged Youth, Enrichment Activities, Kindergarten Children
Martens, John – 1969
At the urging of the governor of Iowa, private business and industry plus interested citizens organized and funded four Project Iowa Training and Retraining of Youth (Project I-TRY) programs in many Iowa cities during the summers of 1967 and 1968. In assessing the effectiveness of the programs in reaching and selecting disadvantaged youth,…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Opportunities, Employment Programs, Family Characteristics
Wills, Katherine V. – 2002
When a University of Louisville Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI) director, a team of graduate students, and an instructor designed a free summer computer camp program for disadvantaged middle schoolers, they imagined that the middle schoolers would respond to the first instruction as if the educators had restrained them in technological and…
Descriptors: Black Culture, Cultural Context, Disadvantaged Youth, Hermeneutics
Westat, Inc., Rockville, MD. – 1997
This report profiles programs conducted in 19 cities during the summer of 1996 to employ youth in the private sector. In most of the programs, the youth served were disadvantaged; the programs were created or enhanced in order to replace funds that were cut under Title IIB of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). The report contains 20…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Business, Disadvantaged Youth, Employer Attitudes
Smolkovich, Greg; And Others – 1991
A Chapter 1 pre-kindergarten intervention summer school program of the Mesa Unified School District in Arizona was selected by the United States Department of Education as being unusually successful in meeting the special educational needs of disadvantaged children. Students determined to be at-risk are enrolled in the program, which takes place…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Intervention, Emergent Literacy
WILKERSON, DOXEY A.
A NUMBER OF COMPENSATORY EFFORTS ARE BEING MADE TO FACILITATE THE COLLEGE ENTRY OR FURTHER THE ACADEMIC SUCCESS OF SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS. FOR EXAMPLE, SOME PROGRAMS ARE BEING CONDUCTED BY COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES AND SUCH FOUNDATIONS AS THE NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP SERVICE AND FUND FOR NEGRO STUDENTS TO RECRUIT DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS WHO…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Admission Criteria, Black Students, College Admission
Arkansas State Dept. of Education, Little Rock. – 1966
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS A SUMMARY OF THE 1966 ARKANSAS SCHOOL ENUMERATION REPORT REQUIRED BY TITLE VI OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT. IT REVEALS THAT OF A TOTAL OF 395 DISTRICTS THERE ARE 218 BIRACIAL, 171 ALL-WHITE, AND SIX ALL-NEGRO SYSTEMS. THE PERCENTAGES OF STUDENTS IN EACH OF THESE GROUPS IN THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN EACH COUNTY ARE LISTED. ALSO…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, County School Districts, Data, Disadvantaged Youth
GOLD, MILTON J. – 1967
DESCRIBED ARE THE PROGRAMS OFFERED BY HUNTER COLLEGE IN NEW YORK CITY FOR TRAINING TEACHERS OF THE DISADVANTAGED. HUNTER OFFERS (1) SPECIALIZED TRAINING COURSES, (2) PROGRAMS FOR TEACHERS OF PUERTO RICAN CHILDREN, AND (3) VARIOUS NATIONAL DEFENSE EDUCATION ACT INSTITUTES ON READING IMPROVEMENT, URBAN EDUCATION, SCIENCE TEACHING, ENGLISH TEACHING,…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Federal Programs, Field Experience Programs, Inservice Education
Institute for Services to Education, Inc., Washington, DC.
OPERATIONAL FEATURES OF SUCCESSFUL 1965 UPWARD BOUND PROGRAMS ARE BRIEFLY SUMMARIZED. THE GOAL OF THE UPWARD BOUND PROGRAMS, WHICH ARE UNIVERSITY-BASED AND ARE CONDUCTED DURING THE SUMMER AND THROUGHOUT THE ACADEMIC YEAR, IS TO PREPARE NORMALLY INTELLIGENT DISADVANTAGED HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS FOR ADMISSION TO AND SUCCESS IN COLLEGE. THE PROGRAMS…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, College Preparation, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Programs
