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Download full textNational Spanish Speaking Management Association, Washington, DC. – 1972
Recognizing the adverse effects of poverty on Mexican Americans, and determined to help narrow the barriers caused by a low socioeconomic status, Aims college, a locally funded institution in Weld County, Colorado, conceptualized and implemented a special needs program designed to provide vocational and occupational training for disadvantaged…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Career Development, Developmental Programs, Disadvantaged Youth
Illinois State Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, Springfield. Dept. for Exceptional Children. – 1973
The four Follow Through projects in Illinois are described and evaluated. These projects involve approximately 1,450 children in K-3 in Mounds, East Saint Louis, Waukegan, and Chicago. The Chicago project is subdivided into three individual projects and is trying three experimental programs. Emphasis is given to the nature of the environmental…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Federal Programs
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1971
The Postal Academy program was designed in late 1969 to provide basic education skills and job opportunities for disadvantaged school dropouts and to give educational help to postal employees who were unable to qualify for advancement. To determine the effectiveness of the program, this study sought to: (1) identify changes in the students'…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropouts, Enrollment
Peer reviewedNewlon, Betty J.; And Others – Journal of Career Development, 1985
Describes an evaluation of a summer career awareness workshop program for economically disadvantaged youth. The evaluation found that three-fourths of the 96 participants reported that as a result of the three-day workshop, they were closer to making a career decision. (CT)
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Choice, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged
Hollister, Robinson G. – 2003
This paper reviews literature on the growth in after-school programs, reasons for their growth, and what these programs hope to accomplish It also addresses what is known about what works, program costs, and implications for policy. Overall, the forces behind increased funding and activity in after-school programs could be characterized in two…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, High Risk Students, Poverty
Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, Washington, DC. – 2000
The best-known model for large-scale private giving to foster education reform is Walter Annenberg's $500 million gift to U.S. public education in 1993. The biggest chunk of this money was used to fund challenge grants in the nine largest U.S. cities. The three case studies and commentary in this report evaluate the success of the Annenberg…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Shelden, Randall G. – 1999
The juvenile justice system is exploring alternatives to the use of secure facilities as a means of juvenile crime control. Some of these alternatives are known as diversion programs. This bulletin offers an overview of the diversion programs and evaluation findings from the Detention Diversion Advocacy Project (DDAP), a disposition case advocacy…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Community Programs, Correctional Institutions, Delinquency
Peer reviewedTaylor, Bryan P. – Integrated Education, 1972
The text of testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs concerning the participation of the San Diego Independent School District in the National School Lunch program, by the district superintendent. (JM)
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Administration, Educational Resources
Peer reviewedKiesling, Herbert J. – Education and Urban Society, 1972
Extends the findings of a study of relationships of some educational inputs and reading performance of disadvantaged California Title I pupils, utilizing a highly simplified model of the compensatory education process. (JM)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary School Students, Input Output Analysis
Peer reviewedCaldwell, Bettye M. – Educational Horizons, 1971
Author reviews the past decade in early childhood education and proposes strategies for the future. (MB)
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education, Educational Needs
Peer reviewedWessman, Alden E. – American Educational Research Journal, 1972
A scholarship program for promising disadvantaged students in private secondary schools was evaluated through interviews, faculty reports, and testing in a two year follow-up of 82 boys. (Author)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Followup Studies
Schlieper, Ann; Rosenfeld, A. – Spec Educ Can, 1969
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Exceptional Child Education, Paraprofessional School Personnel, Program Evaluation
Peer reviewedPichler, Joseph A. – Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1972
The restructuring of the Job Corps and its integration with other manpower programs is described. (BH)
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Federal Programs, Poverty Programs
Amberson, Max L.; Luft, Vern – Agricultural Education Magazine, 1971
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Needs, Handicapped Students
Steed, Allen T. – Agricultural Education Magazine, 1971
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Programs, High School Students
