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The Effectiveness of a Technologically Facilitated Classroom-Based Early Reading Intervention: The Targeted Reading Intervention
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Steven J. Amendum; Lynne Vernon-Feagans; Marnie C. Ginsberg – Elementary School Journal, 2011
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a classroom-teacher-delivered reading intervention for struggling readers called the Targeted Reading Intervention (TRI), designed particularly for kindergarten and first-grade teachers and their struggling students in rural, low-wealth communities. The TRI was delivered via an innovative…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Special Needs Students, Early Reading, Intervention
An Analysis of the Impact of Intervention Programs on the Completion I Rate of Hispanic Students in High School
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Johnson, Jamey Raquel – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The United States Department of Education (2008) noted that the percentage of ethnic minority students in public education increased from 22 percent in 1972 to 43 percent in 2006. This increase largely reflected the growth of the Hispanic population, especially in the state of Texas. Richard (2003) reported that Hispanic students drop out of…
Descriptors: Expenditure per Student, Intervention, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Attainment
The Mission of Manpower Policy. Studies in Employment and Unemployment.
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Bakke, E. Wight – 1969
The rationale for present manpower programs and its utility for future manpower policy are discussed. The approach focuses attention on such questions as the following: Does the present de facto meaning of manpower policy, which is implicit in what is now being attempted in the so-called "manpower programs," exhaust the potential…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Federal Programs, Foreign Countries, History
Employers' Responses to Vouchered On-the-Job Training in the Portland WIN Program.
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Weidman, John C. – 1978
Portland, Oregon, employers approached by Work Incentive Program (WIN) clients were surveyed to determine their reactions to various components of the voucher on-the-job training (OJT) program, to identify the types of employing organizations that were likely to be receptive to vouchered OJT, to assess the actual functioning of the voucher system…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Vouchers, Employer Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship
The Impact of Work Tests on the Employment Behavior of Welfare Recipients.
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Evans, Robert, Jr.; And Others – 1976
A study was conducted to determine whether existing work tests affected the timing and quality of jobs found after a period during which a person both received welfare benefits and had to register with the Employment Service (ES) in connection with their receipt. Six measurable aspects of a work test applicable to individuals were identified:…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment, Employment Patterns
Meeting the Needs of Teachers of Disadvantaged Programs in Pennsylvania. [Final Report.] Vocational-Technical Education Research Report. September 1978, Volume 16, Number 15.
Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park. Div. of Occupational and Vocational Studies. – 1978
A study was conducted to determine the state of the art in vocational education programming for disadvantaged in Pennsylvania and the nation, and to develop materials to improve vocational programs for the disadvantaged. Project efforts focused on programs serving the academically/economically disadvantaged in regular classes, special classes, and…
Descriptors: Ancillary Services, Cooperative Programs, Curriculum Development, Economically Disadvantaged