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Orr, Larry L.; And Others – 1996
The Federal Government has sponsored job training for the unemployed and economically disadvantaged for more than three decades. The National Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) study is the first evaluation of a major ongoing national program that uses a random assignment experimental design in which only program experience divides participants…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Educationally Disadvantaged, Employment Patterns, Job Skills
Download full textHarrell, Adele – 1996
The Children-at-Risk program (CAR), a drug and delinquency prevention program, targets high-risk adolescents aged 11 to 13 who live in distressed neighborhoods. The program features integrated delivery of comprehensive services that are tailored to the community and involve close collaboration with other services providers. The Urban Institute is…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Delinquency, Delivery Systems, Disadvantaged Youth
Hollweg, Karen S. – 1997
The Volunteer-led Investigations of Neighborhood Ecology, or VINE Program, gives children opportunities to discover and investigate the plants, animals, and ecological relationships that exist right in their own neighborhoods through hands-on natural science investigations. It was established by Denver Audubon Society members as an urban education…
Descriptors: Ecology, Elementary Education, Environmental Education, Experiential Learning
Smyer, Roxane; Bliss, Kris – 1991
This report describes an evaluation of Project Success, a dropout prevention program at Crockett High School in Austin (Texas). The class centered program provided incentives for improved educational performance and attendance of at-risk ninth-grade students in the 1990-91 school year. The project served 103 students over the fall 1990 and spring…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
Farrow, Earl Vann; And Others – 1977
Rutgers Upward Bound program participants were recruited from 16 New Jersey high schools upon completion of the tenth grade. Students with potential for achieving success in a two- or four-year college were selected, despite lack of appropriate educational background. Subjects of this longitudinal study were 345 volunteers who participated in the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged, Economically Disadvantaged
Wang, Margaret C.; Haertel, Geneva D.; Walberg, Herbert – 1997
No tool has promoted educational reform more completely than coordinated school-linked services. This paper integrates results of a cross-program analysis examining 6 coordinated school-linked service programs for widely implemented practices and results of a quantitative synthesis of 44 studies of the effects of school-linked programs on…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Case Studies, Coordination, Disadvantaged Youth
New Chance. Final Report on a Comprehensive Program for Young Mothers in Poverty and Their Children.
Quint, Janet C.; Bos, Johannes M.; Polit, Denise F. – 1997
This report focuses on young mothers who had children as teenagers, who had dropped out of high school, and who were receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children. It was a voluntary demonstration project that provided comprehensive education, training, and other services intended to increase the long-term self-sufficiency and well-being of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Demonstration Programs, Dropouts
Flannery, Daniel, J. – 1998
There are a great many types of violence prevention programs in schools, and many are demonstrating signs of success. Funders will not provide resources for programs, nor will schools know how to choose them, unless quality evaluation data are available to show their effectiveness and promise. Resources to conduct a meaningful evaluation are often…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization, Formative Evaluation
Peer reviewedStevens, Robert J. – Educational Research and Evaluation: An International Journal on Theory and Practice, 2003
Developed and evaluated a middle school literacy program designed to meet the needs of urban early adolescents. Findings from evaluation in two schools implementing the Student Team Reading and Writing program and three comparison schools indicated higher achievement for program participants. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Cooperative Learning, Literacy Education
Peer reviewedSussman, Steve; And Others – Evaluation Review, 1997
Two studies of drug abuse prevention programs that rely at least in part on the "school-as-community" concept were conducted in urban high schools with high-risk students. Both studies support the feasibility of formalized groups of high-risk youths to promote drug-free events. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community, Drug Abuse, Group Membership
Newman, Michael – 1990
This booklet is a guide to setting up a formal mentor program in the community. Mentor programs can take many shapes, whether sponsored through the schools, by businesses, or by churches and volunteer agencies. Like any operation, a volunteer mentor program has various management functions. The planning function sets a mission statement, goals,…
Descriptors: Administration, Community Involvement, Interpersonal Relationship, Mentors
Sallade, Ronald; Connet, Margaret Jensen; Wells, Nancy – 1997
The SUCCESS Program of the Des Moines (Iowa) Public Schools provides employment, health, mental health, and social services in a comprehensive "one-stop shopping" manner at the most accessible location for children and youth, the public school that they attend. During the 1995-96 school year, the strategies of the SUCCESS program were…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Counseling, Disadvantaged Youth, Diversity (Student)
Houston Independent School District, TX. Dept. of Research and Accountability. – 1997
The Juvenile Justice Alternative Education Program was developed to provide an education for students who were expelled from school or who were adjudicated to attend an alternative school. The program was operated by the Harris County Juvenile Board, but the Houston Independent School District contracted with the county to place expelled students…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Attendance, Delinquency, Expulsion
Saginaw Public Schools, MI. Dept. of Evaluation Services. – 1992
An evaluation was done of compensatory educational programs in reading and mathematics in the Saginaw (Michigan) School District. The elementary Compensatory Education (CE) program is both a push-in format (grades 1 and 2) and a pull-out format (periodically taking students out of regular classrooms) that serves 2,045 students in grades 1 through…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs, Interviews
Buescher, Thomas M. – 1982
As described in this final report, the Immersion Learning Project at Wayne State University investigated the advantages of two alternative approaches to providing long term inservice training in special education to those in urban preschool programs working with high-risk and/or handicapped young children. During the first year of program…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Day Care, Delivery Systems, Disabilities
