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Download full textBernard Van Leer Foundation, The Hague (Netherlands). – 1992
The first section of this program report offers a general description of the Bernard van Leer Foundation and its work. The second and third sections provide the foundation's annual report and financial report for 1991. The fourth and largest section of the program report describes 117 projects in 43 countries that are financed and supported by the…
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Programs, Developed Nations, Developing Nations
Bernard Van Leer Foundation, The Hague (Netherlands). – 1993
This 1993 program report profiles the Bernard van Leer Foundation, a private institution based in The Netherlands that concentrates its resources on support for early childhood development. The first two sections provide a general description of the Bernard van Leer Foundation and its work. The third and fourth sections are the foundation's annual…
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Programs, Developed Nations, Developing Nations
Weill, James D. – 1990
This essay provides an overview of the goals and activities of the Children's Defense Fund (CDF), an advocacy group headquartered in Washington, D.C. that works to improve the well-being of American children through systemic change and whose goal is to make it unacceptable for any child in the United States to grow up homeless, hungry, sick,…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Child Welfare, Childrens Rights, Disadvantaged Youth
Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg. Div. of Vocational-Technical Education. – 1983
This collection of abstracts provides descriptions of exemplary vocational guidance and counseling projects funded in Virginia through Title II (Vocational Education) of Public Law 94-482. The abstracts describe programs to improve vocational guidance for special needs persons (disadvantaged, handicapped) as well as those to improve vocational…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Adults, Blacks, Career Exploration
Summers, James C.; Zeller, Frederick A. – 1977
The Urban 4-H Program involved low income, inner city youth in two of the State's largest cities. The project background is described. Data bearing on the program planning process and attempts to ascertain the nature, source, and extent of influences affecting that process is analyzed. Urban 4-H Program participants are compared on several…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Disadvantaged Youth, Inner City, Longitudinal Studies
Fresno City Coll., CA. – 1978
This booklet presents evaluation and audit systems developed to monitor and evaluate student/program success as part of a project designed to improve program and services for disadvantaged and handicapped vocational students at Fresno City College, California. The booklet is divided into the following sections: procedures for implementing and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Disadvantaged Youth, Flow Charts, Guides
Durkin, Roderick – 1977
The final report evaluates residential treatment programs and in particular the Sage Hill Program for economically disadvantaged and disturbed teen-age boys. Evaluative studies are reviewed with regard to their substantive findings and methodological issues. It is explained that change sensitive measures, such as The Daily Behavior Rating Scale…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Theories, Change Agents, Disadvantaged Youth
Furcron, Margaret – 1969
This report reviews the first two years and describes the second two years of a Brooklyn College experimental project which offered special instructional and support services to a group of economically disadvantaged students with below standard high school achievement, but an academic potential for college work. The student recruitment process for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Blacks, College Admission, Disadvantaged Youth
Banta, Trudy W.; And Others – 1979
The Child Health and Development Project (CHDP), a home-based early intervention program operated in six East Tennessee counties, provides well-child clinics, developmental evaluation, individualized early childhood education for disadvantaged children, and training in parenting skills for their parents. The University of Tennessee's Bureau of…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Disadvantaged Youth, Health Services, Home Programs
Milgram, Roberta M. – 1979
Informal and formal programing for gifted children in grades 4 through 12 in Israel are described. After school and summer enrichment programs, special classes and special schools for the gifted are discussed; and a number of programs for gifted children from disadvantaged backgrounds are presented. The author reports on her own research studies…
Descriptors: Creativity, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
Minneapolis Special School District 1, Minn. – 1966
THIS REPORT CONTAINS EVALUATIONS OF 22 TITLE I PROJECTS IN THE MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, PUBLIC SCHOOLS. THERE WERE PROGRAMS IN SIX AREAS--(1) SUMMER AND AFTER-SCHOOL COMPENSATORY EDUCATION WHICH PROVIDED ENRICHMENT AND SKILL DEVELOPMENT, (2) CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT AND EXPERIMENTATION, (3) HEALTH AND WELFARE, (4) SPECIAL EDUCATION FOR PHYSICALLY…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Compensatory Education, Curriculum Development, Disadvantaged Youth
Scientific Resources, Inc., Union, NJ. – 1967
This proposal to use nonprofessional aides in school and afterschool programs in Newark, N.J., delineates five program objectives: (1) to develop the two new positions of nonprofessional teacher aide and assistant teacher; (2) to develop, in cooperation with Newark State College and Montclair State College, training programs to move…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Job Training, Language Acquisition
Buntin, L. Ann – 1967
Forty-two teachers and supervisors, selected by the Texas Education Agency, participated in a 2-week workshop designed to provide an intensive study of the disadvantaged and to increase the effectiveness of teachers of culturally disadvantaged youth, primarily in the area of occupational training. Scholars in the fields of sociology and psychology…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Environment, Disadvantaged Youth, Minority Groups, Poverty
Oden, Walter E. – 1978
A project to raise the percentage of student attendance to 95 percent or above was initiated at Brownsville Junior High in Miami, Florida. The school is geographically located in a low socioeconomic area and the students are 80 percent black. The program included the use of community resources and incentives of frisbees, yo-yos, t-shirts,…
Descriptors: Attendance, Behavior Change, Community Resources, Disadvantaged Youth
Stebbins, Linda B.; And Others – 1976
This segment of the national evaluation study of the Follow Through Planned Variation Model reviews the background of the study, describes 13 of the Follow Through models involved, and presents an analysis of the effects of these models on students. The analysis is based on data from 4 years of Follow Through participation by Cohort II children…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Evaluation Methods, Longitudinal Studies
