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The Changing Nature of U.S. Urban Policy Evaluation: The Case of the Urban Development Action Grant.
Peer reviewedBarnekov, Timothy; Hart, Douglas – Urban Studies, 1993
Assesses, using the Urban Development Action Grant as a case study, why the evaluation of American urban economic initiatives has declined. The authors conclude that this decline occurred because of such evaluation's perceived lack of utility for policymakers and ineffectiveness in actually informing either policy or practice. The problems…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Economic Change, Economic Progress, Evaluation Problems
Download full textBoll, Jay – 1989
This case study documents the experiences of a Peace Corps volunteer who worked as a Youth Development volunteer with disadvantaged institutionalized youth in Honduras. Youth Development volunteers provide direct services in the areas of vocational education, recreational programming, informal education, and counseling. Many are assigned to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Case Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
