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Download full textLee, John Y. – 1998
This paper examines the latest elementary, middle school, and district level Maryland student achievement and teacher experience data to argue that schools today are segregated not only along student backgrounds, but also along teacher expertise. The very students who need school the most to break out of the intergenerational cycle of poverty and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, College School Cooperation, Disadvantaged Youth
Direct linkThomas, Liz; May, Helen; Harrop, Helen; Houston, Muir; Knox, Hazel; Lee, Mee Foong; Osborne, Michael; Pudner, Heather; Trotman, Colin – Universities UK, 2005
This is the third in a series of reports published by Universities UK and the Standing Conference of Principals (SCOP) charting the development of widening participation activity across the UK higher education sector. The study analyses 34 in-depth case studies (including a re-examination of the 23 previous case studies from the 1998 and 2002…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Access to Education, Disadvantaged Youth
Peer reviewedGreenleaf, Cynthia; And Others – Teaching and Teacher Education, 1994
Many disadvantaged students show incipient excellence underlying perceived errors in literacy performance. The paper examines research on helping teachers think more generatively about increasingly diverse student populations. Preservice teachers can be taught to handle multicultural classrooms by interpreting problematic student performance in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, Cultural Differences
Bailey, Jerry D.; And Others – 1996
This paper describes the programs at the University of Kansas (UK) School of Education to encourage diversity. The TRIO programs, which include a regular Upward Bound program, an Upward Bound Math and Science Center, an Educational Talent Search, and a McNair Scholars Program, report to the associate dean for teacher education and play a key role…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Diversity (Institutional), Early Childhood Education, Educational Finance
Gladieux, Lawrence E. – 1996
This report traces the history of the collection of programs for disadvantaged students known as the TRIO programs and federal student financial aid policies, and finds that national efforts to equalize college opportunities have been losing ground for the past 15 years. The report cites, for example, a study showing that in 1994 a student from a…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Eligibility
Levin, Rebekah A., Ed. – 1994
This book provides a picture of comprehensive children's services from a global, theoretical perspective, as well as a more practical guide to the potential roles for participating service providers and the structuring of such programs. Following an introduction, the volume is organized into 14 chapters: (1) "Moving from Cooperation to…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Ancillary School Services, Cooperative Planning, Cultural Pluralism
Howard, Catherine – 1990
This grant proposal describes Project GOLD (Garfield Options for Leadership Development), an after-school and summer program designed to serve African American middle school-aged youth in Richmond, Virginia. The youths are residents of public housing, are primarily from female-headed households, and are typically at least one school year behind…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Behavior Problems, Black Students, College Programs
ERIC 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 15 titles deal with the following topics: the relationship of racial integration, auditory discrimination training, and other factors to reading achievement; the relative effectiveness of the controlled reader and the speech…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Auditory Discrimination, Compensatory Education, Correspondence Study
ERIC 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 13 titles deal with the following topics: the role of visual pattern perception in the development of children's reading skills; a comparison of students' silent reading, oral reading, and listening comprehension; semantic…
Descriptors: Adults, Annotated Bibliographies, Behavior Patterns, College Freshmen
Loye, David, Ed. – 1970
This booklet surveys all the research studies (approx. 205), undertaken at ETS from July 1968 through June 1969. It offers research results to interested, nonresearch professional readers, and supplements more formal reports for professionals interested in research processes as well. Four major themes in the ETS research program are emphasized:…
Descriptors: Careers, Cognitive Processes, Computer Programs, Disadvantaged Youth
Clark Atlanta Univ., GA. – 1993
The Precollege Summer Camp Opportunity for Potential Educators (SCOPE) project was a minority recruitment and retention program designed to attract academically challenged tenth and eleventh grade students into teaching careers in mathematics and science. This three-year project offered a six-week summer camp for 50 precollege minority students in…
Descriptors: Career Exploration, Career Guidance, College Admission, Cooperative Learning
Gándara, Patricia – College Entrance Examination Board, 1999
Commissioned by the College Board's National Task Force on Minority High Achievement, this report describes higher education programs and strategies that have the capacity to help many more minority students distinguish themselves academically on the undergraduate level. Chapters included in this report are: (1) Introduction; (2) The Challenge;…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Academic Achievement, High Achievement, Achievement Gap
ERIC 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 12 titles deal with the following topics: a transformational analysis of syntax in tenth-grade writing; the relationship between inner-city fifth graders' reading comprehension and writing achievement; the relationship of the…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Case Studies, Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Style
COSTA, EDWARD T.; AND OTHERS – 1967
FOLLOWING THE FORMAT STIPULATED BY THE U.S. OFFICE OF EDUCATION, THIS REPORT DESCRIBES THE ACTIVITIES AND METHODS OF RHODE ISLAND'S 88 COMPENSATORY EDUCATION PROJECTS. HIGHLIGHTED ARE FIVE PROJECTS FOR HANDICAPPED CHILDREN AND EXEMPLARY PROJECTS IN SPECIAL EDUCATION, INDIVIDUAL INSTRUCTION, SUMMER KINDERGARTEN ACTIVITIES, AND SUMMER LIBRARY…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Annual Reports, Attendance, Compensatory Education
Dudley, Jim, Comp.; Von Kennel, Tim, Comp. – 1978
Votes of the Senators and Representatives on selected bills deemed important to students covering late 1976 and all of 1977 are presented along with the National Student Association and the National Student Lobby (NSA-NSL) rating of each Congressman. The rating is based on the percentage of times the Congressman voted in favor of the position that…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Bus Transportation, Career Education, Civil Rights
