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Adapted Excerpt from "Hope against Hope: Three Schools, One City, and America's Struggle to Educate Its Children"
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Carr, Sarah – Policy Futures in Education, 2014
In this amended excerpt from "Hope Against Hope", educational reform in post-Katrina New Orleans is considered from a journalistic perspective in presenting the story of Geraldlynn Stewart as she and her family navigate the new school system. In providing voices of lived experiences of Stewart as well as other individuals within this new…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Natural Disasters, Low Income Groups, Coping
The Softer Side of "No Excuses"
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Boyd, Alexandra; Maranto, Robert; Rose, Caleb – Education Next, 2014
Since their start in Houston in 1994, KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) charter schools have been the most celebrated of the No Excuses schools. Employing strict discipline, an extended school day and year, and carefully selected teachers, No Excuses schools move disadvantaged students who start behind their peers academically up to and above…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Discipline, School Schedules, Extended School Day
The Measurement and Evaluation of the Mental, Academic and Personal-Social Development of Primary Students in Workshop Way Classrooms and in Non-Workshop Classrooms. Final Report.
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Pilon, Grace – 1970
In this program report, students from Workshop Way (WW) classrooms were compared with students who were not in the program to discover if WW students were progressing faster in academic and social development. The WW program operated in disadvantaged areas; it combined a special organizational plan of the social and physical features of a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Educationally Disadvantaged
A Comparison of Suspended and Non-Suspended Fourth-Grade Students in Urban Low Socio-economic Level Schools on Two Measures of Self-Concept as-a-Learner.
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Foulks, Sara L. – 1973
The purpose of this study of fourth-grade students in the New Orleans Public Schools during the 1972-73 session was to achieve a better understanding of the characteristics, reasons for suspension, and self-concept of students suspended from low socio-economic schools. The idea that poor self-concept as-a-learner is a significant factor which…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Black Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged
NEW ORLEANS SERVES UP FINE ARTS TO FEED YOUNG EGOS.
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GORMIN, PATRICIA – 1968
THE EDUCATIONAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECT IS CONDUCTING A FINE ARTS PROGRAM FOR DISADVANTAGED PUPILS AT TWO PREDOMINANTLY NEGRO NEW ORLEANS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. THE PROGRAM HAS A TWO-FOLD GOAL--TO FOSTER CREATIVITY IN THE PUPILS AND TO DEVELOP TEACHERS' AWARENESS OF STUDENT ADJUSTMENT AND LEARNING PROBLEMS. INCLUDED IN THE PROJECT ARE MUSIC EDUCATION AND…
Descriptors: Art Education, Black Students, Communication Skills, Consultants
A Two-Year Investigation of the Relationship of Oral Language Proficiency and Reading Achievement of First Grade Children with a French Linguistic Background.
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Bradley, Ruth – 1972
The language proficiency of four groups of children, Negro and white, in one southern community, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, is examined. The goals of this study were threefold: (1) to study the development of language patterns in first grade children from these socioeconomic groups; (2) to determine the effectiveness of the Gloria and David…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Black Youth, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary School Students