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Download full textERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 27 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: models for college courses dealing with films and literature and with women in literature; the effects of selected variables on children's and adults' responses to…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Childrens Literature, Disadvantaged Youth, Doctoral Dissertations
Education Trust, Washington, DC. – 2003
This report presents 10 suggestions for what the U.S. Department of Education can do to help schools raise achievement for all students and close the achievement gap by increasing teacher quality: (1) make improving teacher quality job one; (2) insist on good data; (3) ensure that states make an immediate priority of fixing the indefensible…
Descriptors: Accountability, Data Collection, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Secondary Education
Connecticut State Dept. of Higher Education, Hartford. – 1994
This report describes the activities and results of three programs instituted under Connecticut's Minority Advancement Program (MAP) to promote racial and ethnic diversity in Connecticut public higher education. The Connecticut Collegiate Awareness and Preparation Program (ConnCAP), which enrolled 1,585 students in 1993-94, is designed to give…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism, Disadvantaged Youth
Levine, Arthur, Ed. – 1993
This volume, in honor of higher education expert Clark Kerr, collects 21 papers that look at how and why the uses of the university have changed, are likely to change, and need to change in the years ahead. A Preface by Arthur Levine and an Introduction by Eric Ashby describe Kerr's career and contributions to higher education. Papers are grouped…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Faculty, College Presidents, College Students
Adams State Coll. of Colorado, Alamosa. – 1980
Designed to provide information about the College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP) which was started in 1972, this study describes the opportunities, encouragement, and support which migrant and seasonal farmworker youth in pursuit of an education at Adams State College in Alamosa, Colorado, receive. The study details student recruitment methods,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Programs, College Students, Disadvantaged Youth
Hanford, George H. – 1976
The College Entrance Examination Board's (CEEB) internal review of its efforts to develop and implement programs to expand educational opportunities for minorities and the poor revealed that the Board had not been as successful as it had hoped. Most of the Board's efforts to ensure equal access to higher education focused on guidance programs,…
Descriptors: Career Education, College Admission, College Entrance Examinations, Disadvantaged Youth
Miller, Bernard W. – 1974
A proposed project will attempt to alter the attitudes toward disadvantaged urban children which are held by students in an elementary teacher education program. There are both theoretical reasons and empirical evidence to indicate that filmmaking and film viewing are effective means of facilitating learning, interpersonal communication, emotional…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attitude Change, Behavior Change, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Myers, David E.; Moore, Mary T. – 1997
This monograph presents the executive summary of a study evaluating the first-year impacts and program operations of Upward Bound, a federal pre-college program designed to help economically disadvantaged students complete high school and gain access to post-secondary education. In 1996, 45,000 students participated in the program through projects…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Access to Education, College Bound Students, Compensatory Education
Hamrick, Florence A.; Stage, Frances K. – 2000
This study tested a causal model of student college predisposition that incorporated traditional measures of influences (parents' education, income, gender, parents' expectations, grades, school activities), as well as two additional influences (first-generation status and mentoring) identified in qualitative studies of pre-college through early…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Black Students, College Attendance, College Bound Students
Rendon, Laura I., Ed.; Hope, Richard O., Ed. – 1996
This book presents 20 papers on the current status and future needs of disadvantaged minority students in the elementary, secondary, and higher education systems. Papers are grouped into four sections: current challenges to minority education; restructuring schools to foster minority student success; reforming higher education; and leadership…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Colleges, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Change
de Acosta, Martha – 1993
This paper analyzes the ways in which the Cleveland (Ohio) Hispanic community, made up mostly of Puerto Ricans, has been organizing to increase its involvement in the education of Hispanic youth. In particular, this paper focuses on the past 3 years when new styles of involvement were attempted. This involvement has taken the form of program…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Affirmative Action, Community Action, Community Cooperation
Virginia State Dept. of Education, Richmond. – 1993
This second interim report presents evaluation results from Project Youth Experiencing Success (YES) and documents a decrease in the Virginia statewide event-dropout rate in grades 7 through 12 from 4.8 percent during the 1988-89 school year to 3.3 percent during the 1991-92 year. Event-dropout rates measure the proportion of students who drop out…
Descriptors: Ability, At Risk Persons, Case Studies, College School Cooperation
Young, Lawrence – 1978
This paper examines the unique make-up of selective colleges as opposed to those with open admission policies, variances in individual colleges, and how Upward Bound students can be prepared for selective colleges. Some orientations of selective colleges have been described as realistic, scientific, enterprising, and conventional. All of these…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Ancillary School Services, Basic Skills, Career Planning
Alabama State Dept. of Education, Montgomery. – 1966
ONE SECTION OF THIS REPORT DESCRIBES CONSULTATIVE SERVICES FOR PLANNING AND EVALUATING THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION TITLE I PROJECTS, EVALUATION DESIGNS, DISSEMINATION OF PROJECT INFORMATION, MAJOR PROBLEM AREAS, COORDINATION WITH COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS, INTERRELATIONSHIP WITH OTHER ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT TITLES,…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Attendance, Compensatory Education, Cooperative Programs
White, Judith C.; Franklin, Harry I. – 1974
This article documents the conception and development of a tool for providing academic and counseling support to meet the needs of minority adult students in an urban community college environment. Specifically, the tool is a course having as its base the proper assessment of student needs and the revision of the syllabus to fit those needs.…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Black Youth, College Curriculum, College Freshmen
