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Boone, Edgar J.; White, Estelle E. – 1976
The pilot evaluative study of the use and effectiveness of the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) Youth Nutrition Lesson Series focused upon its effectiveness in producing nutrition behavior change (nutrition knowledge, nutrition attitudes, and food intake) based upon the concepts, values, and principles presented in lessons 1-6…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Behavior Change, Change Agents, Change Strategies
Cooney, Joan Ganz – 1974
Looking back over the five years of Sesame Street's existence, it is possible to discern changes in the program in the areas of production, the role of research, and its audience; it is also possible to see the vast impact that the educational television show has had on preschool children both in the United States and abroad. The show's…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education, Educational Research
Fellenz, Peter; And Others – 1974
This report, the fourth in a series of evaluations for Home Start planners and administrators, presents an analysis of the Home Start program operation during the fall of 1973 and a description of the data base being developed for the forthcoming cost-effects analysis. The first chapter is an executive summary of the interim findings and future…
Descriptors: Demography, Disadvantaged Youth, Home Programs, Home Visits
Schwartz, Lester; And Others – 1972
The Non-Public Schools Clinical and Guidance Services Program, run by the Board of Education of the City of New York, and funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, was designed to provide clinical and guidance services to children attending designated nonpublic inner-city schools. The program was designed so that the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Problems, Clinics, Compensatory Education
Sherman, Roger H.; Tinto, Vincent – 1975
This paper reviews and synthesizes the available literature concerning the effects of intervention programs at the secondary and higher educational levels. In achieving an understanding of the design of these efforts it is important to recognize that the first projects, e.g. the Demonstration Guidance Project, Higher Horizons, established a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth
Criner, Beatrice H., Ed. – 1974
This report is based upon one component of an Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I project in the Lenoir County, North Carolina, public schools for the 1973-74 school term. Programed Tutoring was developed as a supplement to classroom teaching. The three basic skills of reading (sight reading, word analysis, and comprehension) are broken…
Descriptors: Black Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary School Students
Jablonsky, Adelaide, Comp. – 1974
This annotated bibliography is the seventh in the Doctoral Research Series. It encompasses doctoral research on "Special Secondary School Programs for the Disadvantaged" reported in "Dissertation Abstracts International" from 1965 through June 1973. The citations are arranged in the following categories: College Preparatory…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, College Preparation, College Programs, Compensatory Education
Pilon, Grace – 1970
In this program report, students from Workshop Way (WW) classrooms were compared with students who were not in the program to discover if WW students were progressing faster in academic and social development. The WW program operated in disadvantaged areas; it combined a special organizational plan of the social and physical features of a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Educationally Disadvantaged
Kerr, Frances M.; Russell, Valerie E. – 1968
A talent development project at Mount Holyoke College, part of A Better Chance (ABC)-Independent Schools Talent Search program, was offered during the summer of 1968 to 71 disadvantaged high school students from 13 states. Major aims of the program were to help these students with college potential to strengthen their academic skills and…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Disadvantaged Youth, English, Enrichment Activities
Tapscott, Elizabeth M. – 1967
This evaluation of 110 projects in which 17,298 disadvantaged children of the State of Hawaii participated in 1967 is based on professional observations, standardized test scores, and teacher-made tests. The report covers the following topics in the operation of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I projects: (1) major achievements,…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Objectives
Gewirtz, Marvin H. – 1968
The 1967-68 Teacher Training and Reading Institutes constituted the third cycle of a program funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act, and performed under contract with the New York City Board of Education. The main objective of the training institutes was to provide teachers with training and insights particularly…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Decentralization, Disadvantaged Youth
Educational Research Services, Inc., White Plains, NY. – 1969
This report evaluates Project Mission which offered graduate and undergraduate students from three of Maryland's State Colleges special training for teaching in Baltimore's inner-city schools. Partially supported by Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I money, the program provided each student with a year's supervised experience teaching…
Descriptors: Black Students, College Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Graduate Students
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Bureau of Urban and Community Programs Evaluation. – 1972
During 1971-72, the State of New York was allotted $193,459,929 for Title I, Elementary Secondary Education Act projects for children in low income areas to be conducted by local education agencies. The State initiated the effort to meet the educational needs of disadvantaged learners. This report describes the nature of the target population by…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Cost Effectiveness, Demography
Blayton, Ethel J.; Ryals, Joe – 1973
The staff at Forrest School developed the following program goals: (1) activities which will encourage pupil participation in planning the learning activities; (2) opportunities for pupils to develop self-expression and verbal communication with adults and peers; (3) activities designed to insure some degree of success; (4) encouragement and…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Elementary Schools, Individualized Instruction
Langley, Janis; And Others – 1973
Project Keeping All Pupils in School (KAPS) is a dropout prevention program designed by officials in the Baltimore City Public Schools, supported by Federal funds under the provision of Title VIII of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act (PL90-427). The KAPS Program consists of six components. They include: Daily Program, Service to Aid…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention
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