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Download full textWang, Margaret C.; And Others – 1974
The Primary Education Project (PEP) is concerned with the development and evaluation of a model of individualized education for young children suitable for implementation in American public schools at the preschool through primary grade level. It is concerned with all aspects of school functioning: curriculum, classroom organization, teacher…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Class Organization, Classification
Leonard, George E. – 1973
The pilot program was designed to aid inner-city Detroit public school students to raise and broaden their educational/occupational aspiration levels and plan for their future. The project served 15,000 students from seven elementary schools, two junior high schools, and one high school; control schools were selected to match the experimental…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Articulation (Education), Career Awareness, Career Education
Hosley, Cheryl A. – Wilder Research, 2004
Cargill Scholars is a comprehensive, five-year program that aims to improve students' scholastic performance by raising academic expectations, preventing high-risk behavior, and improving life skills. The program serves 50 socio-economically-disadvantaged children who attend school in Minneapolis or its northern and western suburbs. The program…
Descriptors: Student Improvement, Academic Achievement, Disadvantaged Youth, Program Evaluation
St. Pierre, Robert; And Others – 1995
Even Start is a national program of early childhood and adult education to improve family literacy. This document is a series of four appendices which accompany the National Evaluation of the Even Start Family Literacy Program, a 4-year effort to assess projects, participants, and effects of Even Start. Appendix A provides in-depth description of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adults, Community Services
Southard, Margarida F. – 1991
In the 1989-90 school year, 13 dropout prevention programs were implemented in the Leon County (Florida) School District. The Comprehensive Dropout Prevention Program (CDPP) for Leon County schools included Educational Alternatives Programs, a Teenage Parent Program, a Substance Abuse Program, and Youth Services Programs. This report presents…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Attitudes, Counseling, Disadvantaged Youth
Thompson, Denise R. – 1989
This document comprises an evaluation of the 1988 METRO Achievement Program, a summer educational program to help develop the academic potential of primarily Black and Hispanic girls entering the seventh and eighth grades in Chicago. The 5-week program included the following components: (1) mathematics, science, and communication skills classes;…
Descriptors: Black Students, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Females
Farrar, Elizabeth B. – 1986
In Belle Glade, Florida, a slum populated by Blacks, Whites, Hispanics, migrant farmworkers, and Haitians, where the incidence of most major health risks was far greater than anywhere else in the state, a program was planned and partially implemented which aimed to provide health services to at-risk, disadvantaged teenage mothers and their…
Descriptors: Birth Weight, Community Action, Community Health Services, Community Problems
Guerrero, Frank; And Others – 1988
The Children's Art Carnival (CAC) Creative Reading Program, a community arts and educational organization, combines instruction in reading with art activities. Operating in sites in Manhattan and Queens, New York, the program served 294 second to sixth grade students during the 1986-1987 school year. Students who scored poorly on the Degrees of…
Descriptors: Art Education, Childhood Attitudes, Childrens Art, Disadvantaged Youth
PDF pending restorationTallmadge, G. Kasten; Wood, Christine T. – 1976
This guidebook concentrates primarily on describing the impact-assessment component of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title I evaluation and reporting system for users of the system. Three general evaluation models are presented, along with implementation information for each. The first model, a norm-referenced design, may be…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Compensatory Education, Control Groups
Lefkowitz, Bernard – 1982
During January, February, and March 1982, 283 people in 17 cities were interviewed regarding those strategies and policies designed to provide access to employment for disadvantaged youth that should be preserved, changed, or rejected. Participants included program operators and practitioners, program participants, elected and appointed officials,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Programs
Lambert, Roger H.; Nelson, Eugene S. – 1975
The evaluation scheme proposed here is intended to serve as a format and guide for a third party evaluation of Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) Title I programs. The guide begins with a brief section presenting an introduction to evaluation, the evaluation format for Title I, and a flow chart of evaluative activities. The remainder…
Descriptors: Adults, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Objectives, Employment Programs
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Office of Youth Programs. – 1980
This volume (and volume 2 of this report) are products of the knowledge development effort implemented under the mandate of the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977 (YEDPA). This report on assessment of the Job Corps presents a large array of studies ranging from rigorous impact and benefit-cost evaluations to survey of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cost Effectiveness, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth
Saint Louis Univ., MO. – 1980
This report contains evaluations of various phases of the Vocational Exploration in the Private Sector Program (VEPS). (VEPS is designed to provide youth with exposure to jobs available in the private sector through observation of such jobs, instruction, and, if appropriate, limited practical experience so long as the participant does not…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Exploration, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth
Rosario, Jose; And Others – 1980
This volume is the first of a series reporting evaluation findings on the impact of Project Developmental Continuity (PDC) on institutions, classroom staff, parents and children from the time the children entered Head Start through the first grade. PDC was begun in 1974 with the purpose of ensuring that disadvantaged children receive continuous…
Descriptors: Child Development, Class Activities, Control Groups, Cooperative Programs
Harris (Louis) and Associates, Inc., New York, NY. – 1967
THIS INTERIM REPORT OF PRE- AND POST-JOB CORPS STATUS FOR TERMINATIONS (GRADUATES, DROPOUTS, AND DISCHARGES) IS THE SECOND PART OF A CONTINUING EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF JOB CORPS TRAINING. OF 4,649 TERMINATIONS FOR THE PERIOD, 1,254 WERE PERSONALLY INTERVIEWED. SOME OF THE SURVEY HIGHLIGHTS WERE--(1) FEWER THAN HALF OF THE TERMINATIONS…
Descriptors: Age, Comparative Analysis, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropouts
