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Brindha Muniappan – Journal of Museum Education, 2025
Museum educators are well versed in employing multiple techniques for engaging museum visitors. Many use these skills and approaches to support marginalized and vulnerable populations, such as families with an incarcerated adult, families with food insecurity, or unhoused families. Determining how to carry out these beneficial intentions, however,…
Descriptors: Museums, Teaching Methods, Science Education, Children
Whinnery, Erin; Rafa, Alyssa; Wolff, Kate – Education Commission of the States, 2018
Creative Youth Development (CYD) is a long-standing practice that fuels students' potential by intentionally integrating creative skill-building, inquiry and expression with positive youth development principles. In CYD programs, young people create original work through arts experiences and apply their creative skills to solve problems. These…
Descriptors: Creativity, Skill Development, Program Descriptions, Disadvantaged Youth
Browne, Daniel; Syed, Sarosh; Mendels, Pamela – Wallace Foundation, 2013
These "Stories From the Field" describe five Wallace-funded programs working to expand learning and enrichment for disadvantaged children, so they can benefit from the types of opportunities their wealthier counterparts have access to, from homework help to swimming classes. The report details each program's approach, successes and…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Educational Opportunities, Educational Improvement, Homework
Barrueco, Sandra; Smith, Sheila; Stephens, Samuel A. – Journal of Applied Research on Children, 2016
This paper examines research that can inform policies aimed at building the capacity of early care and education programs to promote parent engagement in linguistically diverse families. The key questions addressed include: 1) What factors affect linguistically diverse families' access to early care and education programs?; 2) What do we know…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Child Care
Massachusetts 2020, 2012
Just a few years ago, Boston's Clarence Edwards Middle School was on the verge of being shut down. By 2009, a renaissance at the Edwards made it one of the highest performing and most desired middle schools in Boston, dramatically narrowing and even eliminating academic achievement gaps while delivering a far more well-rounded education to its…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Academic Achievement, Middle Schools, Urban Schools
Stelow, Shawn; Holland, Jenifer Gager; Jackson, Rebecca – Finance Project, 2012
In recent years policymakers have increasingly looked to Extended Learning Time (ELT) as a means of improving student outcomes. As a result, some school districts have increased academic time for students by adding time to the school day or days to the school year. In other communities, schools and community-based organizations have partnered to…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Summer Programs, School Schedules, Educational Resources
Pierson, Donald E.; Yurchak, Mary Jane H. – 1974
The Brookline Early Education Project (BEEP) has been initiated by the Public Schools of Brookline, Massachusetts to help parents provide an optimum learning environment for their children throughout the preschool years. Enrollment in BEEP begins at birth and the project provides educational and diagnostic services, including pediatric care. Each…
Descriptors: Black Community, Disadvantaged Environment, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Environment
Inverness Research Associates, 2007
This paper takes a descriptive look at Community Science Workshops (CSWs). This paper discusses what CSW is, how it arose and spread, how local CSWs are structured and led, and what programs and experiences they offer to youth. (Contains 2 footnotes.)
Descriptors: Community Programs, Science Activities, Workshops, Disadvantaged
National Education Association, Washington, DC. Association of Classroom Teachers. – 1968
Twenty-four local projects which are intended to serve as sources of ideas for professional group action are described in this pamphlet. The projects are reported within the framework of four areas of improving teaching. Under "professional development" projects are portrayed concerning the use of student tutors and the improvement of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Anthologies, Cross Age Teaching, Economically Disadvantaged
Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners, Boston. – 1979
These three collections of reports comprise the objectives, background information, project descriptions, and evaluations for public library programs funded through the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA) in Massachusetts during the fiscal years 1977, 1978, and 1979. The projects reflect the efforts being made by librarians to provide…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Federal Aid, Information Services, Library Cooperation

MacLean, John D., Jr.; French, Elaine H. – ERS Spectrum, 1999
Describes a collaborative program undertaken by a Massachusetts district to enhance preschool students' learning readiness when entering kindergarten. The program consisted of three elements: networking local and area programs and services; improving the quality of programs and services; and increasing access to family services. (11 references)…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Delivery Systems, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education
Women's Bureau (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1979
This paper describes a model providing a framework through which communities can work to meet the critical shortage of adequate quality child care facilities and services in rural as well as urban areas. This CETA program model, called the Fresh Start Approach, offers skills training and supportive services to economically disadvantaged women…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Economically Disadvantaged
Kerr, Frances M.; Russell, Valerie E. – 1968
A talent development project at Mount Holyoke College, part of A Better Chance (ABC)-Independent Schools Talent Search program, was offered during the summer of 1968 to 71 disadvantaged high school students from 13 states. Major aims of the program were to help these students with college potential to strengthen their academic skills and…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Disadvantaged Youth, English, Enrichment Activities
Sperazi, Laura; And Others – 1990
An evaluation of the second year of services of the Massachusetts Adult Education with Homeless Persons Project documented different program models evolving out of diversely defined partnerships between adult education organizations and shelters for homeless people. Site visits to all nine programs and subsequent profiles were supplemented with…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Coordination, Demography, Economically Disadvantaged
Moore, Andrew – National League of Cities Institute for Youth, Education and Families (NJ1), 2007
For young people who have dropped out of school, are out of work, or lack connections to family or other caring adults, there are often no easy answers. Their hopes for a better life are frequently no different than those harbored by their more advantaged peers, but their path to adulthood is rendered more difficult by tangled combinations of…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Young Adults, Outreach Programs, Partnerships in Education
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