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McCart, Linda – 1990
Transforming the welfare system presents governors with unique opportunities, hard choices, and creative challenges. Change will require continued commitment to welfare, educational reform, and economic development. Governors can improve the status of private citizens and private businesses. The Family Support Act of 1988 signaled major changes in…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Programs, Early Parenthood
Download full textUrban Agenda Issue Brief, 2000
The Experience Corps Program, which was initiated in 1996 in New York's South Bronx, connects retirees with children in elementary schools. The Experience Corps' volunteers, who are mostly lifelong residents of the South Bronx, work a minimum of 15 hours each week throughout the school year as mentors, tutors, and special assistants. Since 1997,…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Community Programs, Elementary School Students, High Risk Students
Van Horn, Barbara; Kassab, Cathy; Grinder, Elisabeth – 2002
Pennsylvania's family literacy programs were subjected to a statewide evaluation in 1999-2000. Data were collected through focus groups with parents, a survey of staff in community agencies and organizations, and analyses of program data and the findings of selected assessments administered to adults and children involved in the program.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills
