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Galindo, Claudia; Stein, Kathleen; Schaffer, Eugene – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2016
This study examined the Maryland State Department of Education Breakthrough Center (BTC) engagement in a Baltimore City turnaround high school. Utilizing a case-study design and mixed-methods research, data were collected through interviews, informal observations, and review of administrative and achievement documents. Beginning in the 2011-2012…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Academic Achievement, Intervention, Teacher Attitudes
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Educational Evaluation. – 1986
Project BEAM-UP offers English as a second language (ESL), native language arts, and bilingual content-area instruction to students of limited English proficiency (LEP) in grades 9 through 12 at Sarah J. Hale High School in Brooklyn, New York. The student participants speak Spanish or Haitian Creole. The goal of the program is to help these…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Attendance, Bilingual Education Programs
Chicago Board of Education, IL. Dept. of Research and Evaluation. – 1980
This is an evaluation of the second year (1980) of the Pilot Enrichment Program (PEP), an intensive college preparatory program for underprepared ninth and tenth grade high school students in Chicago, Illinois. Changes in student academic achievement and adaptability to school were measured for 74 PEP participants and compared to data from a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Attendance, College Preparation
Dworkowitz, Barbara – 1993
This report presents the evaluation results of the Queens Tri-School Confederation magnet programs in New York City: programs designed to reduce minority-group isolation among high school students in three high schools and simultaneously improve the quality of their education through the sharing of resources and expertise. These programs, which…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Attendance, Educational Cooperation
Mitra, Sudhansu B. – 1983
How educational experiences and programs sponsored by the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) could better prepare inner-city youth, particularly black, disadvantaged youth, to perform successfully in a number of jobs or occupations was the subject of this study. The Harbor City Learning program, a partially CETA-funded project in…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Black Youth, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropouts
Ventouratos, Despina – 1993
This report evaluates Project Data-Tech, a New York City program that served 125 Haitian- and Spanish-speaking students of limited English proficiency and that was designed to improve the educational attainment of these minority children. Participating students received instruction in English as a second language; native language arts (NLA); the…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Basic Skills, Bilingual Education, Curriculum Development