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Hamre, Bridget K.; Pianta, Robert C.; Burchinal, Margaret; Downer, Jason T. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2010
The National Center for Research on Early Childhood Education's (NCRECE) program of research is a series of experimental studies of specific approaches to training early childhood (EC) educators to be effective in implementation of curriculum and instructional interactions focused on promoting language and literacy skills, two domains that operate…
Descriptors: Mentors, Teacher Effectiveness, Early Childhood Education, Disadvantaged Youth
National Survey of Student Engagement, 2015
In 2015, the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) collected responses from more than 315,000 first-year and senior students attending 585 bachelor's degree-granting colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. This report presents selected NSSE results from students at 541 U.S. institutions or subsets of that group where…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, National Surveys, Educational Quality, Student Characteristics
Ohio State Dept. of Education, Columbus. – 1967
This collection of reprinted speeches delivered at the 1967 Ohio Conference on Disadvantaged Children covers the following topics: learning as the discovery of personal meaning, occupational and vocational training, characteristics of successful Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title I Programs, the inherent difficulties of cultural…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Change, Federal Programs, Language Arts
Grade Teacher, 1969
"An early learning program where children are free to select the materials for their own education and where peer teaching is actively promoted." Part of a longer special report available from: Grade Teacher Reprints, 23 Leroy Ave., Darien, Conn. 06820. (No. 91291, 75J) (Author/AP)
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention, Individual Instruction, Learning Activities
Logan, Juanita – 1974
The Talking Typewriter Program has been operative in the Cleveland Public Schools as a strategy to improve the reading skills of identified fourth grade pupils in 12 Title I schools. A responsive and autotelic environment augmented by selected materials, special teaching techniques, the expertise of trained staff, and individualized tutoring…
Descriptors: Consultants, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Environment, Educational Technology
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA. – 1970
Prepared for a White House Conference on Children (December 1970), this report describes a program in which first- through third-graders in three schools in Dayton, Ohio, participate in a model of a Follow Through program sponsored by Siegfried Engelmann and Wesley Becker of the University of Oregon at Eugene. All teachers chose to participate,…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Black Students, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth
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Smitherman, Barbara J.; And Others – Journal of Home Economics, 1978
The author describes a vocational home economics program called "Impact" designed to meet the needs of inner city junior high school students in Ohio. Standard home economics units are taught in Impact classes, but the content varies according to individual student needs. Emphasis is on developing a positive self-image in students with…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Home Economics, Junior High Schools, Motivation Techniques