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Download full textGeneral Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1992
This report presents information concerning jobs funded through the College Work-Study (CWS) program, a program that provides part-time employment to students needing financial assistance to help defray the costs of attending a postsecondary educational institution. Almost 95 percent of the students' CWS earnings for the 12-month period ending…
Descriptors: College Students, Employment Opportunities, Financial Needs, Higher Education
Burn, Barbara B.; And Others – 1990
This book reports on part of the results of an international research effort to analyze the structures and impacts of study abroad programs offered by higher education institutions in France, West Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. This volume, the first of two, presents the analysis of the structure and dynamics of study…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, College Credits, Developed Nations, Expenditure per Student
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1989
A study was conducted of a representative sample of 5,467 adult Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) participants who exited the program between July 1, 1985, and June 30, 1986 to determine the occupations in which male and female participants were trained and subsequently placed. Job skill level was classified as higher, moderate, or lower-level…
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Employment Programs, Federal Programs, Females
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Support Programs. – 1987
This document presents the distribution of Chapter 1 funds in North Carolina during academic year 1985-86, and analyzes the effects Chapter 1 programs have on student's academic performance. Included among the findings are the following: (1) 125,355 students, or nine percent of the students in North Carolina's 1,378 schools, participated in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Compensatory Education, Educational Improvement
Connolly, Bruce; LaGuardia, Cheryl – 1983
This interlibrary loan (ILL) cost study was conducted at Union College Library in Schenectady, New York, in order to provide immediate feedback about ILL as well as to serve as a potential management tool for library and college administrators. This report describes the financial statistics of a 3-year period of use of ILL services at this small,…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Cost Effectiveness, Higher Education, Input Output Analysis
Hughes, Dana; And Others – 1986
This databook describes the status of maternal and child health in America; the nation's progress in reducing infant mortality, low birthweight babies, and the percentage of pregnant women who receive late or no prenatal care; patterns of teenage and out-of-wedlock childbearing; and the extent to which certain safety net programs, such as Aid to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Birth Weight, Early Parenthood, Federal Programs
Opperman, Prudence Ward; And Others – 1980
This evaluation report describes the implementation and results of the 1979-80 Transitional Class Program. Although the program no longer exists as a centrally-coordinated effort, it serves as a final summary of the program's two years of operation by comparing the results from one year (1978-1979) to the next (1979-1980), and provides guidance to…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Comparative Analysis, Compensatory Education, Learning Problems
Langlois, Margaret – 1979
Through the Title I/Impact Aid programs, special reading and math services were provided for 2,385 students in grades one through nine. Three levels of the Metropolitan Achievement Tests were used as objective pre and post test measures. Pupil activities in reading varied according to diagnosed needs, grade level, and demonstrated task mastery.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged
Tilis, Howard S.; And Others – 1979
The District 6 program for Pupils with Special Educational Needs (PSEN) was designed to provide (1) supplementary reading instruction to English speakers, and (2) bilingual instruction and reading skills, including English as a Second Language (ESL), to Spanish and Greek speakers. A total of 3,856 kindergarten through third grade children and 227…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Diagnostic Teaching, Elementary Education
Portland School District No. 1, OR. – 1978
A brief program description, recommendations to the sponsor, and an evaluation report are presented for a 6-day summer workshop to train public school teachers and administrators (K-12) to use community resource people in career awareness and exploration programs. Activities reported include large- and small-group training sessions, community site…
Descriptors: Career Education, Community Resources, Cooperative Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
Gittelman, Rachel; And Others – 1980
A study was conducted to investigate the effects of methylphenidate given in conjunction with reading remediation to children with pure reading disorders. A total of 66 children receiving motivated reading remediation were randomly assigned to either a placebo or a methylphenidate treatment group. A battery of reading, academic, and psychological…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Drug Therapy, Drug Use, Elementary Education
Detroit Public Schools, MI. Dept. of Research and Evaluation. – 1980
In 1975 the City of Detroit Public Schools were ordered by the United States District Court to improve educational services in order to eliminate vestiges of past discrimination. To this end, the school system obtained Emergency School Aid Act and State monies to fund four educational components: reading and communication skills, inservice…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Desegregation Effects, Educational Improvement, Educational Quality
Ellison, John; And Others – 1980
A study comparing the degree of satisfaction with the Indiana Division of Instructional Media's administration of the ESEA Title IV-B program during the 1979-80 school year reveals that both the public and nonpublic school systems showed a high level of satisfaction with the division's IV-B activities. Two separate questionnaires were designed and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Federal Programs, Participant Satisfaction, Private Schools
Banilower, Eric R.; Rosenberg, Sharyn L.; Weiss, Iris R. – Horizon Research, Inc. (NJ1), 2006
In the spring and summer of 1995, the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded the first cohort of eight projects in a new initiative, the Local Systemic Change through Teacher Enhancement (LSC) program. Eighteen additional projects were funded in 1996, 20 in 1997, 12 in 1998, 13 in 1999, 9 in 2000, 7 in 2001, and 1 in 2002 for a total of 88…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Science Instruction, Educational Improvement, School Districts
James-Burdumy, Susanne; Dynarski, Mark; Moore, Mary; Deke, John; Mansfield, Wendy; Pistorino, Carol; Warner, Elizabeth – US Department of Education, 2005
The 21st Century Community Learning Centers program has supported after-school programs since 1998. Research on the effects of after-school programs has been inconclusive, leading to an ongoing debate about the effects of after-school programs. To examine the implementation of the 21st Century Community Learning Centers after-school program and…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students
