In the early days of vocational agriculture, the supervised occupational experience program (SOEP) included only supervised farming activities and provided experience in the preparation for the occupation of farming. With the vocational legislation of the 1960s, vocational agriculture through the SOEP provided experience in preparing for the…

This study examined the role of Title I in 18 secondary schools (9 intermediate and 9 high schools) that serve disadvantaged students, are engaged in comprehensive school improvement efforts, and have consistently high or improving student achievement. The study was prompted by the changes to Title I under the 1994 Improving America's Schools Act.…

Describes five school programs operating in New Haven involving innercity parents in reading. (RB)

Focusing, as educational change agent, on three examples: the Philadelphia Parkway Program, the Camden Educational Development Program, and the Brandywine Educational Park in Wilmington, Delaware. (JM)

Investigated impact of socio-economic status (SES) and achievement scores on job choice for 128 participants in a Labor Market Orientation Training program. Neither SES nor the program measure ("World of Work") were significant, but "Wide Range Achievement Test" gain scores did significantly impact on job choice. (Author/BRR)

Upward Bound, one of the relatively few examples of residential programs for adolescents conceptually based in developmental rather than treatment or conventional goals, is described to provide another view of child care roles and responsibilities. (MS)

Puerto Ricans are among the poorest and least well educated of Hispanic Americans and continue to drop out of school at a high rate. Recommends peer counseling programs, because there are few Puerto Rican teachers or other professionals to serve as role models. (DM)

Media education curricula has had to address significant changes in students' experiences of media resulting in a void for disadvantaged youth in terms of exposure to arts and technology. In this study we give an overview of the development of media curricula from an international perspective as it pertains to the intersection of art, education,…

Presents a technique for teaching poetry to disadvantaged youths. (RB)

Questionnaires on the quality of the College Readiness Program, an approach to encourage disadvantaged talented students to prepare for careers in the health field, were completed by 40 program graduates. Responses indicated that participants perceived the program as generally benificial in guiding them and perparing them for careers in the health…

AN EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM ORIENTED TOWARD THE EDUCATION OF CULTURALLY DISADVANTAGED YOUTH IS DESIGNED TO--(1) INCREASE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT LEVEL, (2) INCREASE THE ACQUISITION OF CULTURALLY APPROVED SOCIAL SKILLS, (3) MOTIVATE STUDENTS TO EXCEL IN ACADEMIC AND NONACADEMIC SHOOL-ORIENTED PURSUITS, (4) CHANGE, FOR EACH STUDENT, THOSE VALUES WHICH MAY…

A project was designed to develop guidelines which would give direction to local school personnel in the implementation of supportive services for the special needs population participating in regular vocational education programs. Following a literature search, telephone interview instruments were developed and administered to school…

This report describes the inservice component of a project designed to enable 16 secondary English teachers to increase their understandings and develop their competencies in teaching disadvantaged, low achieving students. Included are descriptions of the resource materials used, curriculums which were studied, a sample unit which was developed, a…

A pilot project implemented a role-model approach to job transition for disadvantaged cooperative home economics students in Tulsa and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. From 1974 through 1976, 21 students in four urban high schools were matched with role models on the job. Sixteen of these students retained their jobs. The matches included many different…

Data from the NLSY (National Longitudinal Survey of Youth) were analyzed to test two competing hypotheses regarding how poverty affects the relationship between delinquency and educational attainment. The cumulative disadvantage perspective argues that poor youth suffer greater consequences for their involvement in delinquency than middle and…