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McGrath, Dennis; Van Buskirk, William – 1998
This booklet, issued by the Summer Scholars Transfer Institute (SSTI), encourages collaboration in promoting access and achievement in the education of under-represented students at urban community colleges. SSTI is an eleven-day residential program for community college students held at the University of California, Irvine campus. It is designed…
Descriptors: Black Students, College Preparation, Community Colleges, Developmental Studies Programs
Donovan, Richard A. – 1992
An overview is provided of the development and activities of the National Center for Urban Partnerships, located on the Bronx Community College (BCC) campus in New York. Introductory comments describe the Center as a consortium of cities committed to improving student transfer through community-wide efforts, and outline the four conditions for…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Community Development
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Research, Evaluation, and Assessment. – 1992
This evaluation report describes the Quality Improvement Program Plan for Special Educators (QUIPP) which provides supplemental professional development opportunities for New York City special education professionals and paraprofessionals at the elementary, middle, and intermediate/junior high school levels. The program stresses design of the…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Quality, Elementary Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Lynch, Joanne – 1993
This report presents an evaluation of the International Academy for Bilingual Education and Bicultural Studies, an Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title VII-funded project in its third year of operation in 1992-93. The program provided instructional and support services to 74 Chinese- and English-speaking students in 1 pre-kindergarten, 1…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education Programs, Chinese, Cultural Awareness
South Carolina Univ., Columbia. National Resource Center for the Freshman Year Experience. – 1994
These proceedings report on a 1994 conference on the planning, implementing, and refining of programs designed to enhance the first-year experience of college students in urban settings. Early sections detail conference aims, background and policies. One section describes workshops on various topics, provides a profile on the keynote speaker, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, College Freshmen, Economically Disadvantaged
National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, Washington, DC. – 1990
This report discusses the govenment role in higher education in the United States, particularly in relation to the contribution the state and land-grant universities can make in providing answers to a number of seemingly intractable problems which the country must solve in order to maintain its economic and political position in the world. The…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Black Colleges, Conservation (Environment), Educational Trends
Pelavin, Sol H.; Kane, Michael B. – 1990
This report combines syntheses of prior research with new analyses of previously collected data to address trends for minority group participation in higher education over the past 25 years. Two chapters focus on the aggregate impact of individual choices and behaviors in college attendance. Chapter 1 describes trends in minority enrollment and…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Access to Education, Black Colleges, College Preparation
Schwartz, Wendy – 1988
This report reviews six recently published books on the education of urban and minority youth, and the social and cultural environment in which they live. "The Homeless in Contemporary Society" (edited by R. D. Bingham, R. E. Green, and S. B. White), is a primer on homelessness in America. "Gender Influences in Classroom…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Book Reviews, Elementary Secondary Education
Opuni, Kwame A.; And Others – 1990
The REACH-6 program was a concerted effort by the Houston (Texas) school district to revamp the instructional quality in six of its elementary schools, with the primary purpose of improving the schools' student academic performance. This report describes the academic performance of the students in the REACH-6 program on the TEAMS and MAT-6 tests…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Education, Enrichment Activities
Donovan, Richard A., Ed.; And Others – 1987
In 1983, the Ford Foundation funded a two-part project, the Urban Community College Transfer Opportunities Project (UCC/TOP), designed to improve the transfer process from the community college to the four-year institution for urban minority students. Through partnership efforts with secondary schools and four-year colleges and universities, the…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), College School Cooperation, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges
Bender, Louis W.; Chalfant-Thomas, Susan – 1986
A study was conducted in four metropolitan areas in Florida to determine: (1) the desired and actual roles of state agencies, community colleges, and public universities in promoting the achievement of the baccalaureate degree among urban students who begin their postsecondary education at community colleges; (2) the strengths and weaknesses of…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Economically Disadvantaged
Lefkowitz, Bernard – Carnegie Quaraterly, 1985
The Hispanic Policy Development Project (HPDP) and the National Coalition for Advocates for Students (NCAS) launched separate inquiries into how American public education could be improved without excluding poor, minority, female, and handicapped youngsters. HPDP reported on the performance of Hispanic students in inner-city high schools in…
Descriptors: Black Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropouts, Educational Change
Cota-Robles, Eugene; Doby, Winston – 1987
Two conference papers describing various collaborative arrangements within the educational community among teachers, students and others are presented in this document. The first paper, "Successful Collaborations" (Eugene Cota-Robles), describes the following projects in California that seek to forge collaborations to improve the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Community Programs, Cooperative Programs
Campbell, Bruce A. – 1976
The inconsistency of results to be found in the study of the impact of school desegregation arises in part from the failure to appreciate the complexity of the phenomenon. This report takes a broader view of school desegregation; the basic dependent variables are school level means in the following basic areas: (1) racial attitudes, (2) political…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Theories, Desegregation Effects, Educational Environment
Schermer, George; And Others – 1988
Recognizing the broad range of social and economic limitations associated with residential segregation, the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations initiated a research program to define the extent of these problems and to advance strategies for dealing with them. The initial phase of the project commissioned research papers which were reviewed and…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Housing Discrimination, Minority Groups