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Hillson, Henry T. – NASSP Bull, 1969
Descriptors: College Admission, College Bound Students, College Preparation, College School Cooperation
BERNARD, EDWARD G.; AND OTHERS – 1965
DESCRIBED IS THE USE OF AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS IN PROGRAMS IN SCHOOLS IN NEW YORK CITY, MILWAUKEE, SAN DIEGO, DETROIT, AND CHICAGO. THE PROGRAMS OFFER INSTRUCTION IN SUCH AREAS AS LANGUAGE SKILLS AND DEVELOPMENT, READING, CULTURAL ENRICHMENT, DRIVER EDUCATION, HEALTH EDUCATION, AND JOB TRAINING. SOME OF THESE CITIES HAVE DEVELOPED AUDIOVISUAL…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Audiovisual Instruction, Compensatory Education, Cultural Enrichment
Maryland State Dept. of Education, Baltimore. – 1967
This 1967 Annual State Summary Report of Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I Projects describes Maryland's objectives for educating disadvantaged children. Projects were aimed at improving reading and language arts skills, test performance, verbal and nonverbal communication and strengthening the student's concept of himself and his…
Descriptors: Cultural Enrichment, Disadvantaged Youth, Handicapped Children, Language Arts
Wong, Daisy; And Others – 1973
The Lower East Side Preparatory School's main goal was to provide basic educational requirements for graduation with improved self-image among students who are dropouts/returnees from the lower east side. Because of the school's location it included the Chinatown area. The student population consisted principally of dropouts with poor academic…
Descriptors: Chinese Americans, Cultural Enrichment, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Programs
Zumbrunn, Karen Lee Fanta – 1968
A study was conducted to determine the effect of a taped, guided listening program of contemporary music on students' understanding of other styles of music. Of the 720 students selected for the study from San Francisco junior high schools, 226 were placed in an experimental group which received 18 one-half hour taped listening lessons of…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Education, Cultural Enrichment, Disadvantaged Youth
Fox, David J.; Weinberg, Emmeline – 1967
This New York City school district educational project sought to produce changes in a positive direction in academic achievement, attitudes toward school, and educational and vocational aspirations of two groups of disadvantaged children. One group consisted of children from public and nonpublic schools who had difficulty in learning because of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Black Students, Cultural Enrichment
Mellado, Ramon – 1968
This report on the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I programs in Puerto Rico concentrates on improvements of substandard conditions and of educational achievements, on recreational and cultural enrichment, and on teacher training. Topics covered are: effects of preschool education; effects of Title I programs on grades 3, 6, 7, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Involvement, Cultural Enrichment, Disadvantaged Youth
Morton-Watts, Gwendolyn – 1983
Provided here is an interim evaluation, for the school year 1982-83, of the Motivational-Cultural Experiences project of the Cleveland Public Schools. The purpose of the project is to provide activities which enhance and enrich the experiences of urban children, grades K-12, by transporting them to local cultural facilities for performances of…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Appreciation, Compensatory Education, Cultural Activities
Nearine, Robert J. – 1981
Higher Horizons (HH) 100 is a program providing groups of 100 underachieving secondary school students in Hartford, Connecticut, with an integrated program of academic, cultural, and counseling services designed to develop and improve their basic skills in language and mathematics, self-concept, and adjustment to school. The eight small cluster…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Counseling Services, Cultural Enrichment, Disadvantaged Youth
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA. – 1969
From 2,000 to 3,000 ninth- and tenth-grade students in New York City, mostly black and Puerto Rican, were selected for an intensive educational program (small classes, double sessions of English, group and individual counseling, and cultural enrichment) with the hope that they would remain in the program throughout high school and then pursue…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Preparation, College School Cooperation, Cultural Enrichment
New York State Education Dept., Albany. – 1968
In the summer of 1967 an eight-week session entitled Programs to Excite Potential (Project PEP) was held at Skidmore College in Saratoga, New York for approximately 150 disadvantaged urban junior high school students. These students were drawn from ten urban areas throughout the state. The criteria upon which the participants were chosen were…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Behavior Change, Cultural Enrichment, Disadvantaged Youth
Connecticut State Dept. of Education, Hartford. – 1968
The "Greater Opportunity Program", funded by ESEA Title III, has provided academic instruction, cultural stimulation, and supportive counseling to 100 underachieving disadvantaged Hartford boys about to enter high school. The resident program has been conducted at the Hotchkiss School using the independent school's staff for 7-week…
Descriptors: College Preparation, Cultural Enrichment, Disadvantaged Youth, English Instruction
Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA. Graduate School of Education. – 1969
Two final reports, winter 1968-1969 and summer 1969, respectively describe the sixth and seventh sessions of the Cambridge School Department's After School Center Program and involving six elementary schools. Both the winter and the summer programs were designed to give disadvantaged children remedial instruction in reading and mathematics along…
Descriptors: Art Education, Cultural Enrichment, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary School Students
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA. – 1972
Each academic year since its inception in 1965, the Higher Horizons 100 (HH100) program has provided a remedial language and intensive counseling program to 100 disadvantaged ninth-grade students. The goal of the program is to improve the language skills, self-concept, and school adjustment of disadvantaged students having no serious emotional…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Counseling Services, Cultural Enrichment, Curriculum Development
Brody, Lawrence; Schenker, Hank – 1972
The College Discovery and Development (CDD) program completed its fifth year of continuous implementation in June 1970. This volume is the fifth in a series of annual reports describing the educational progress of students who had been enrolled in successive tenth grade classes each September, beginning in 1965. During this 1969-70 academic year,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Blacks, College Students, Compensatory Education
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