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Download full textFenster, Mark J. – 1998
The National Science Foundation's Statewide Systemic Initiative (SSI) program attempted to address concerns about student performance in science, mathematics, and technology education. The SSIs were supposed to increase and improve student learning in these areas by having challenging academic standards, a hands-on approach to instruction, the use…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Technology, Equal Education
1996
This collection of papers presented at a 1996 conference on children's mental health focuses on utilization research. Papers have the following titles and authors: (1) "Information Equity: A Critical Component of Strong Service Systems" (Catherine Batsche and Allison Metcalf); (2) "Utilization of Children's Mental Health Services: Differentiating…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Disorders, Bias, Black Youth
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Research, Evaluation, and Assessment. – 1991
An evaluation was done of the New York City Public Schools' Student Upgrading through Computer and Career Education Systems Services Program (Project SUCCESS). Project SUCCESS operated at 3 high schools in Brooklyn and Manhattan (Murry Bergtraum High School, Edward R. Murrow High School, and John Dewey High School). It enrolled limited English…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Career Education, Chinese Americans, Compensatory Education
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Research, Evaluation, and Assessment. – 1991
An evaluation was done of the New York City Public Schools' Project PRIDE. During the 1990-91 school year, Project PRIDE served 330 mostly Haitian immigrant limited English proficient (LEP) students at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, of whom 84.5 percent were eligible for the Free Lunch Program. Project PRIDE provided students with…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, English (Second Language)
Gibboney (Richard A.) Associates, Inc., Kensington, MD. – 1977
This volume is the technical appendixes to the evaluation study (ED 142 795) of the Career Intern Program (CIP), a program effort to help urban youth get a basic education and further training or a paying job. These appendixes include descriptions of the evaluation design, study sample, statistical treatment of the data, and measures used,…
Descriptors: Career Development, Data Collection, Evaluation Methods, Field Interviews
Erickson, Edsel; And Others – 1973
This project was designed to bridge the gap between the home and school by sending family assistants into the homes of potential dropouts and youngsters whose school work and behavior are not satisfactory. One hundred and two family assistants acting with schools' attendance coordinators, deans, and guidance personnel, work with pupils whose…
Descriptors: Attendance, Compensatory Education, Dropout Prevention, Family Counseling
Florida Memorial Coll., Miami. – 1995
This project, referred to as the Aviation Careers Accessibility Program (ACAP) established a model program for inner-city minority high school students that would allow them information and accessibility to careers and opportunities in the aviation industry. The project featured two program components: an academic year component during and a 5- or…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Aviation Education, Career Awareness, Career Counseling
Lamare, Judith – 1998
This report provides an assessment of the progress of Sacramento START, an after-school learning program, for the period from September 1996 through May 1997. Evaluation instruments included standardized test scores for students in grades three through six and interviews with 18 principals from 20 START schools and teachers from 18 schools. Test…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, After School Programs
Syropoulos, Mike – 1997
The Ninth Grade Restructuring Program of the Detroit (Michigan) public schools was designed to restructure the ninth grade in ways that improve academic performance, develop positive attitudes toward learning, improve the school environment, reduce the dropout rate, and increase the graduation rate of students. Features of the program were…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitude Change, Dropout Prevention, Grade 9
Syropoulos, Mike – 1997
The Ninth Grade Restructuring Program of the Detroit (Michigan) public schools was designed to restructure the ninth grade in ways that improve academic performance, develop positive attitudes toward learning, improve the school environment, reduce the dropout rate, and increase the graduation rate of students. Features of the program were…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitude Change, Dropout Prevention, Grade 9
Ford, Jerome, Comp.; Jackson, Anthony, Comp.; James, D'Borah, Comp.; Smith, Bryce, Comp.; Robinson, Luke, Comp.; Cherry, Jennifer, Comp.; Trotter, Jennie, Comp.; Harris, Archie, Comp.; Lenior, Sheila, Comp.; Bellinger, Mary Anne, Comp. – 1995
Family MAASAI is a multiservice substance abuse prevention and intervention program for African American at-risk urban youth. The program commemorates the Maasai people of Africa and uses MAASAI as an acronym that stands for Maintaining African American Survival, Achievement, and Integrity. Cultural awareness, pride, and respect for self, elders,…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Black Culture, Black Students, Cultural Awareness
Austin Independent School District, TX. Office of Program Evaluation. – 2001
The GEAR UP Austin: Impacting Lives program serves a cohort of approximately 3,369 seventh graders from 10 Austin Independent School District (AISD) middle schools and 28 seventh graders from the Texas Empowerment Academy charter school. More than half of these students come from low-income households, and many are considered at risk. This…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Annual Reports, Career Awareness, Counseling
Peer reviewedWeis, Lois; Centrie, Craig – American Educational Research Journal, 2002
Studied the effect of programs within desegregated schools that serve an identified population of students for cultural affirmation and advancement. Ethnographic data from a girls' group at an urban magnet school and a Vietnamese students' homeroom, focusing on 20 high school students, in an urban comprehensive school demonstrate both the power of…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Cultural Awareness, Ethnography, High School Students
Peer reviewedDiver-Stamnes, Ann C. – Urban Education, 1991
A peer counseling program in a 1,800-student inner-city high school (60 percent Latinos, 35 percent African Americans, and 5 percent others) appears successful when evaluated for the following: student knowledge acquisition; student evaluation of the program; students' impact on school and community through counseling sessions; and impact on the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Black Students, Blacks, Educationally Disadvantaged
Fass-Holmes, Barry; Ciriza, Frank – 1996
The Reading Recovery (RR) program of the San Diego City Schools (California) has expanded over the last 5 years and now includes 38 schools. This report documents the program's short-term and sustained efforts to increase reading achievement and its central office costs. RR is a Title I-funded early intervention program that uses one-on-one…
Descriptors: Black Students, Grade 1, Hispanic American Students, Hispanic Americans
