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Houston Independent School District, TX. Dept. of Research and Evaluation. – 1996
"Adelante...con Ganas!" (Forward...with Enthusiasm) was a 3-year transitional bilingual program implemented at Burbank Middle School in the Houston Independent School District (Texas). The program consisted of three levels of bilingual instruction, from preliterate through intermediate, in which students were placed following state and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Hispanic Americans, Intermediate Grades
Wang, Margaret C.; Kovach, John A. – 1995
The impact of the changing macroecological characteristics of cities on school performance is explored, and what can be done to reduce the achievement shortcomings among urban students from ethnic and language minority backgrounds is considered. The increase in residential segregation and thereby educational segregation in urban schools is as much…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, At Risk Persons, Decentralization, Economic Factors
Burnett, Gary – 1992
This ERIC Digest reviews the school restructuring tool of career academies serving the non-college bound student. The career academy movement began with the Electrical Academy in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The model was exported to California where it became the basis for the Peninsula Academies in the Sequoia Union High School District and from…
Descriptors: Career Education, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Curriculum Evaluation
Walker, Gary; Vilella-Velez, Frances – 1992
The Summer Training and Education Program (STEP) research demonstration was initiated in 1984 to test the effects of a two-summer remediation, work, and life skills intervention on the lives of 14- and 15-year-olds from poor urban families who were already seriously behind academically. The program provided youth with half-day summer jobs combined…
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged
Massachusetts Univ., Amherst. Cooperative Extension Service. – 1991
Extension educators teach the same information to disadvantaged youth and their families as to any other audience, and those being helped are just as willing to learn. The difference is that families with limited resources have many barriers that slow the process of change to self-sufficiency. As extension educators plan and implement programs,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Classroom Techniques, Consumer Economics, Economically Disadvantaged
Welch, Olga M.; And Others – 1991
In order to examine the relationship between the development of academic self-esteem and a climate of excellence in the classroom this study compared the experiences of a group of high school students in their two inner-city Knoxville (Tennessee) high schools with their corresponding experiences in a University of Tennessee (Knoxville) sponsored…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Classroom Techniques, College Bound Students, Educational Environment
Frymier, Jack; And Others – 1992
The Phi Delta Kappa Study of Students At Risk assessed who is at risk, what puts students at risk, what schools are doing to help those students, and how effective these efforts are. Data were collected about 21,706 students, 9,652 teachers, and 276 principals; 65 case studies were completed; and holding power data about 27,250 students in 95 high…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Case Studies, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged
Hanners, Chuck – 1990
This novel for youth describes the world and experiences of a group of poor inner city junior high school students and their teacher. The students are all in a remedial classroom designed to meet their special needs and led by a dedicated teacher nick-named "Harp On". The central character Frankie describes their school year and particularly the…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Disadvantaged Youth, High Risk Students, Inner City
Ramirez, Elizabeth Weiser – 1993
This fact sheet on Hispanic American education in the United States in 1993 offers information on families, spending, school to work transitions, and education at preschool through college levels. The Hispanic population is growing much faster than the rest of the population, and by 1990 it comprised 9 percent of the national population. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Rate, Economically Disadvantaged
Blanc, Cristina S. – 1992
This publication presents a discussion of the status of poor urban children world-wide and the design of a five-nation study of the condition of distressed urban children. Following an introduction, Section 2 describes the urban child project designed to study and advance the plight of urban children in developing nations. Section 3 outlines the…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Health, Child Labor, Children
Dembo, Richard; And Others – 1992
Young people with records of involvement in the juvenile justice system were studied in Florida, primarily in the inner city of Tampa. The study is part of a longitudinal study of predictors of drug use, delinquency, and criminality. Overall, 32 percent of the 297 adolescents interviewed reported engaging in drug sales in the year preceding their…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Case Studies, Child Abuse, Criminals
Ready, Timothy – 1991
The passage from adolescence to adulthood of a group of young Latino immigrants, all of whom attended a Washington (District of Columbia) high school called the Multicultural Career Intern Program (MCIP) in the 1980s, is traced. Background and circumstances suggested that these youths were at-risk, but most made good use of their MCIP-related…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Career Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Trotter, Jennie C.; Jones, LaTuan T. – 1998
The Peace Project was initiated in 1993 by the Wholistic Stress Control Institute in conjunction with three schools to develop an intervention for middle school students who were repeatedly suspended for violent behaviors. It is an in-school suspension program for violent youth. The project provides training and services in conflict resolution,…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Conflict Resolution, Curriculum, Disadvantaged Youth
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Research, Evaluation, and Assessment. – 1991
An evaluation was done of the New York City Public Schools' Alternative Basic Comprehensive Program (Project ABC). Project ABC operated at 2 high schools in the Bronx (Christopher Columbus High School and Walton High School) and served limited English proficient (LEP) students, 227 in the fall and 286 in the spring of the 1990-91 school year. The…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Research, Evaluation, and Assessment. – 1991
An evaluation was done of the New York City Public Schools' Asian and Arabic Mediated Enrichment Resource and Instructional Career Awareness Program (Project AMERICA). During the 1990-91 school year, Project AMERICA operated at 2 high schools (Lafayette High School and Fort Hamilton High School) and served 408 Chinese-speaking Asian immigrant…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Asian Americans, Bilingual Education Programs, Career Education