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Direct linkInverness Research Associates, 2007
The people at Inverness Research Associates spent 12 years studying Community Science Workshops (CSW) in California and in six other states. They gathered statistics on the scale, scope, and cost-efficiency of CSW services to youth. They observed youth at work in the shops--taking apart computers, repairing bikes, growing plants, and so on--and…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Science Activities, Workshops, Nontraditional Students
Download full textChang, Hedy Nai-Lin – 1990
This report provides an in-depth review of the "newcomer program phenomenon" and is designed to promote discussion of how schools can best educate and safeguard the rights of immigrant children. Through telephone interviews and site visits, the report presents data on the characteristic features of existing newcomer programs, the…
Descriptors: Cultural Literacy, Educational Planning, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1972
The purpose of the demonstration programs in intensive reading and mathematics instruction for low-achieving students was essentially to enable school districts to establish and operate exemplary and innovative projects to improve the competence of junior high school students in reading and mathematics. Projects were limited to students in grades…
Descriptors: Accountability, Compensatory Education, Cost Effectiveness, Economically Disadvantaged
National Committee for Children and Youth, Washington, DC. – 1967
The national problem resulting from the inability of large numbers of youth to meet educational requirements for military enlistment was described in the 1966 report (see VT 005 531). Part I of this report contains an analysis of the efforts of the National Committee for Children and Youth (NCCY) to help this youthful population in Baltimore,…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Educational Needs, Educationally Disadvantaged, Employment Services
Tushnet, Naida C. – 1991
This monograph introduces a conference addressing the educational issues of the edge cities of the urban Pacific Southwest. Edge cities on the outside of urban cores (edge cities) are currently facing many of the problems formerly experienced only in urban areas. Of the 30 fastest-growing cities of over 100,000 residents in the country, 19 are…
Descriptors: Business Responsibility, Demography, Educational Change, Educational Policy
Pritchard, May Long – 1982
This paper is one in a series of research papers related to the state role in youth employment and training. It describes seven state-sponsored youth employment and training programs, representing a varied range of approaches that states have undertaken to address their youth employment problems. The first section of this paper provides capsule…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged
