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Glaser, Elizabeth; Warick, Carrie – National College Access Network, 2016
Postsecondary early awareness strategies are a fast-growing component of college access to attainment efforts. Broadly defined, these programs and policies encourage low-income and first-generation students to gain the information, skills, and resources they need to successfully take part in higher education. They focus on students in fifth…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Educational Attainment, Low Income Students
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Beatty, Barbara – Teachers College Record, 2012
I focus on the role of preschool intervention and developmental psychology researchers in defining the concept of the "disadvantaged child" and in designing and evaluating remedies to alleviate educational "disadvantages" in young children. I argue that preschool interventions concentrated especially on compensating for…
Descriptors: Intervention, African American Children, African American Family, Compensatory Education
Reading Newsreport, 1971
Summarizes and evaluates a preschool program for three and four year old children coming from a deprived background and with scores of 85 and under on the Stanford-Binet scale. (JM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Disadvantaged Youth, Home Visits