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Des Moines Public Schools, IA. – 1991
In addition to the regular transportation of students to school, the Transportation Department of the Des Moines (Iowa) Independent Community School District provides transportation for alternative and special education programs, field trips, and after-school activities. The context evaluation (program description), input evaluation (staffing and…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Field Trips
Download full textNew York Univ., NY. Center for Field Research and School Services. – 1972
This report evaluates four New York City school district educational projects funded by the "New York State Urban Education Program". The Diagnostic and Remedial Reading Center provides intensive instruction in reading to approximately 40 to 45 children during the academic year. The center is staffed by a reading specialist, a part-time…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Educational Diagnosis, Individualized Instruction, Inservice Teacher Education
JONSSON, HAROLD A. – 1966
THIS SUMMARY AND EVALUATION OF THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT TITLE I PROJECT IN BERKELEY, CALIF., DESCRIBES COMPENSATORY ACTIVITIES IN FOUR TARGET ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO TARGET ACHIEVEMENT TRACKS IN CORRECTIVE READING PROGRAMS IN THE HIGH SCHOOLS. THE OBJECTIVES IN THE TARGET ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS WERE TO RAISE EDUCATIONAL…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Attitude Measures, Bus Transportation
Mahan, Thomas W. – 1968
This supplementary report on Project Concern, an educational intervention program in Hartford, Connecticut, which buses inner city minority group children to suburban schools, deals with the nonacademic aspects of the experiment. Described briefly is the typical low socioeconomic background of the elementary school children. The reaction of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bus Transportation, Disadvantaged Youth, Experimental Programs
Mahan, Thomas W. – 1968
The final technical report summarizes the development, operations, and effectiveness of Project Concern, Hartford's program of suburban school placement for inner-city children. This approach to educational improvement through busing disadvantaged students to neighboring towns was funded in part by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bus Transportation, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropouts
FOX, DAVID J. – 1967
THIS EVALUATION OF THE SECOND YEAR OF THE FREE CHOICE OPEN ENROLLMENT PROGRAM (OE) IN NEW YORK CITY'S PUBLIC SCHOOLS PRESENTS COMPARATIVE DATA FOR 26 RECEIVING AND 15 SENDING ELEMENTARY AND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS. THE AREAS STUDIED WERE (1) CHILDRENS' CLASSROOM FUNCTIONING, (2) TEACHERS' CLASSROOM FUNCTIONING, (3) SCHOOL APPEARANCE, CLIMATE, AND…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Educational Environment, Elementary Schools, Evaluation Methods
Cataldo, Everett F; And Others – 1978
A study of seven school districts in Florida indicates that factors associated with large scale, area-wide desegregation stir negative sentiments among parents. These negative sentiments have relatively little influence over behavior but apparently undercut attitudinal support for school desegregation. Parents in the seven school districts can be…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Case Studies, Community Support, Cultural Influences
Grand Rapids Public Schools, MI. – 1971
The purpose of the Grand Rapids Educational Park project is to develop the best possible working model of an area center located in downtown Grand Rapids, which would offer specialized courses for junior and senior students residing in the Grand Rapids metropolitan area. This report documents a 3-year pilot project, from the summer of 1968 through…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bus Transportation, Cooperative Programs, Educational Environment
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. – 1966
VARIOUS ASPECTS OF A NEW YORK CITY COMMUNITY ZONING PLAN (CZP) ARE EVALUATED IN THIS REPORT. INITIATED IN 1964, THE PLAN WAS DESIGNED TO IMPROVE THE ETHNIC BALANCE IN THE SCHOOLS BY PAIRING SELECTED ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS TO CREATE SINGLE ATTENDANCE ZONES. STUDENTS IN THE LOWER GRADES ATTENDED ONE SCHOOL WHILE THOSE IN THE UPPER GRADES ATTENDED THE…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Administrator Evaluation, Arithmetic, Attendance
Mahan, Thomas W. – 1967
Under Project Concern minority group children in Hartford, Conn., were bused to 33 elementary schools in five suburban school systems. The goals were to change the de facto desegregation of the inner city schools, to design an effective, supportive educational intervention program to arrest and remediate school failure, and to evaluate the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Ancillary Services, Attendance, Bus Transportation
Turner, W. E.; And Others – 1973
Special Programs to Enhance the Education of Disadvantaged Youth (Project SPEEDY) was in its seventh year of Title I funding, the main thrust being in the area of corrective reading and other programs designed to promote language development. Although concentrating funds on fewer students has been made increasingly difficult by busing pupils,…
Descriptors: Art, Art Therapy, Bus Transportation, Business Education
Iwanicki, Edward F. – 1976
The 1975-76 Hartford Project Concern Program marks the end of a decade in which Hartford and suburban communities have participated in a voluntary busing program aimed at enriching the educational opportunities of both urban and suburban youth. In May 1976, the Capitol Region Education Council received a grant from the Connecticut State Department…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Bus Transportation, Busing, Cognitive Measurement
Collet, LaVerne S. – 1970
The Formative Evaluation and Heuristic Research (FEHR) PRACTICUM, a computerized game, gives practical experience in such program evaluation tasks as problem definition, operationalizing objectives, field study, budgeting, proposal writing, data analysis, and interpretation--without the expense and time commitments required by most research. The…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Bus Transportation, College Mathematics, Compensatory Education
Good, Linda – 1996
This study examined kindergarten teachers' perceptions regarding the change in schedule from an everyday, half-day program to an alternating day, full-day program. Subjects included 37 female teachers in a small midwestern city who had almost completed the first year of the changed schedule. Results from a mail survey revealed teacher concerns,…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Alternate Day Schedules, Bus Transportation, Class Activities
Scarborough, Jule Dee; Ellis, Joseph R. – 1984
The second year of a project that developed and implemented a model for on-bus instruction during travel time from two high schools to area vocational centers demonstrated that such an innovative delivery system was viable and effective. All units from Pollock's "A Curriculum Guide for Pre-Employment Skills" were adapted for use in the project.…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Audiovisual Instruction, Bus Transportation, Delivery Systems
