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Download full textKinney, David A.; And Others – 1995
Despite the critical failure of many urban schools to educate poor children and children of color, there are examples of schools and teachers who help students meet challenging academic standards in a supportive, culturally responsive, and empowering context. This paper represents one such success story of a teacher's efforts to nurture his…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Environment
1994
The Career Planning for Life Forum was a national policy forum sponsored by the Committee for Economic Development (CED) and hosted by the U.S. Army. More than 250 representatives of business, education, government, and labor attended the forum and spent the day discussing the preparation of the country's young work force for the global economy.…
Descriptors: Career Planning, Cooperative Planning, Disadvantaged Youth, Global Approach
American Youth Policy Forum, Washington, DC. – 1994
This document contains summaries of presentations and discussions from five seminars on building a connective system between school and work that took place during Fall 1991, with more than 125 participants. The report is organized to provide both the background materials and the presentations from each session of the seminal series. Each section…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Disadvantaged Youth, Education Work Relationship, Educational Improvement
Raffe, David – 1989
This paper summarizes evidence from the Scottish Young People's Survey (SYPS) on the labor market problems of young people in Scotland. The discussion focuses largely on youth unemployment. Other indicators of disadvantage, such as quality of employment and wages, are either difficult to measure or are of doubtful validity for this age group.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cohort Analysis, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropouts
Waks, Leonard J.; And Others – 1989
From 1986 to 1988 the associates of the Enhancing Secondary Science Education through Science/Technology/Society (STS) for Urban Minority Youth Project worked toward establishing guidelines for STS in secondary science. The guidelines, based on study, research, discussions, and a consensus-building process, are presented along with 12 background…
Descriptors: Blacks, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Guides
National Commission for Employment Policy (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1988
The five case studies in this volume concern at-risk youth. Disadvantaged youth programs in different states were studied by different authors: (1) Albuquerque, New Mexico (Richard Mendel); (2) Baltimore, Maryland (Edward C. Lorenz); (3) Hartford, Connecticut (Richard Funkhouser and Delsie Gandia-Fabian; (4) Oakland, California (David Snedeker);…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Development, Career Education, Case Studies
Institute for Educational Leadership, Washington, DC. – 1990
The Work, Achievement, and Values Education (WAVE) program, developed by the 70001 Training and Employment Institute, was launched in 52 schools across the country at the start of the 1989-90 school year. Thirteen of these schools were demonstration sites, receiving intensive support from 70001 for WAVE teacher training and program assistance for…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Comprehensive Programs, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth
Rosinek, Michele – 1984
The Prevocational Assessment Screen (PAS) is designed to provide instructors or evaluators with a quick (50 minutes to score and administer) and simple (requiring no training to administer) method of screening mildly handicapped and disadvantaged youth between 14 and 21 years of age for job training and placement. PAS contains eight samples which…
Descriptors: Clerical Occupations, Color, Computer Assisted Testing, Disadvantaged Youth
Burrell, Lewis P. – 1988
A mathematics program was developed and implemented at the Jefferson County (Ohio) Joint Vocational School to raise the mathematics functioning of special needs students by using interactive computers. Special needs students were pre- and posttested with the Wide Range Achievement Test, Arithmetic section. The 11th-grade students functioning at…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Disadvantaged Youth, Exceptional Persons
Rist, Ray C.; And Others – 1979
Forty-eight of the Exemplary In-School Demonstration Projects being conducted under Title IV, Part A of the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act (YEDPA) of 1977 were analyzed to (1) provide an initial discussion of some of the basic aspects of the various strategies employed by the projects and (2) assess some of the fundamental…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Education, Career Exploration, Credits
Gainer, William J. – 1989
The General Accounting Office (GAO) studied the implementation of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act in six states (Arkansas, California, Kansas, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania) to determine if the funds are being used properly, to fulfill the objectives of providing vocational education to the disadvantaged and handicapped and…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Finance
Worthington, Robert M. – 1985
Vocational education has been greatly increasing its services to special needs populations. For example, the enrollments reported by the states for school year 1982-83 indicate a 38 percent increase in the number of handicapped persons served in vocational education, a 65 percent increase in the number of disadvantaged served, and a 163 percent…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Compliance (Legal), Disabilities, Disadvantaged Youth
HANNA, LYLE; AND OTHERS – 1967
PROJECT "TEACH" WAS ESTABLISHED TO IMPROVE THE EDUCATION OF TEACHERS OF THE DISADVANTAGED. IN THE AREA OF SECONDARY EDUCATION, SEVERAL GOALS WERE SET AND MET. (1) PROFESSORS OF SECONDARY EDUCATION WERE ASSISTED IN CHANGING CURRICULUM AND INCREASING THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF THE CULTURE OF POVERTY BY INSTITUTING ON-SITE COURSES IN METHODS…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Disadvantaged Schools
Carron, Theodore J.; And Others – 1978
A study was conducted to explore the relationship of race and socioeconomic status to the learning of reading skills among ninth-grade black and white students in the Tuscaloosa, Alabama, city and county schools. Each student was given diagnostic reading tests by timed, untimed, and auditory administration. Socioeconomic status was measured by…
Descriptors: Auditory Tests, Black Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Grade 9
Lew, Art – 1971
This report details the Scientific Programming Course that is a part of "Project SOUL." The course is intended for underprivileged high school juniors and seniors having an interest in mathematics or science and aspirations to attend college. The report is divided into three sections. In section I, the administration and operation of the…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Science Education, Computers
