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Grantee Submission, 2019
The foster youth education program strives to increase graduation rates by improving academic performance and encouraging student retention through an innovative collaboration between tutors, social workers, and schools to provide individualized support. The pilot program was funded by U.S. Department of Education Innovation Funds, which evolving…
Descriptors: Foster Care, Graduation Rate, Academic Persistence, Program Evaluation
Blatchford, Peter; Russell, Anthony; Webster, Rob – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
Over the last decade, teaching assistants (TAs) have become an established part of everyday classroom life. TAs are often used by schools to help low-attaining pupils and those with special educational needs. Yet despite the huge rise in the number of TAs working in UK classrooms, very little is known about their impact on pupils. This key and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Aides, Program Effectiveness, Observation
Tims, Frank M. – 1982
The need for evaluation of drug abuse treatment programs has been generally recognized and mandated by law since 1976. To learn to what extent such evaluations are actually performed and to obtain information about those evaluations, drug abuse treatment programs receiving federal funds in 1979 were surveyed. Questionnaires were sent to a random…
Descriptors: Clinics, Drug Abuse, Drug Rehabilitation, Evaluation Methods
Betsinger, Alicia M.; King, Christoper T. – 1999
This project report presents findings on the implementation and progress of the On the Right Track program during the second year of a four-year grant period. The project, which began in July of 1997, is designed to assess and document the magnitude, severity, and secondary conditions of disabilities for persons with disabilities in Texas, to…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Health Promotion, Incidence
Green, Karen Reed; Baker, Andrea – 1986
This is a progress report for a project attempting to gather and share information about effective dropout prevention strategies in action at the middle school and high school levels around the Northwest region of the United States. Introductory material reviews current views of the dropout problem, recent reports which address the issue of…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Curriculum Design, Dropout Prevention, Educational Methods
Travers, Jeffrey; And Others – 1981
This report summarizes findings from an ethnographic study of the Child and Family Resource Program (CFRP), a Head Start demonstration program providing child development and family support services to low-income families with young children. Designed to describe program operations from the perspective of staff and client families, the study was…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Employed Women
Syropoulos, Michael – 1980
This report presents 1979-80 evaluation findings of the Non-Public Schools Learning Resource Center, in Detroit, Michigan. The center, funded by Title I, provided diagnostic/prescriptive-learning techniques to 1,400 students (in 27 non-public schools) who had learning difficulties in mathematics and reading. The first section of the report…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Diagnostic Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education, Eligibility
Williams, Barbara I., Ed.; And Others – 1986
This volume of research papers presents ideas, information, and consensus statements on compensatory education effectiveness by some of the country's leading education researchers. Section one presents a summary of proceedings of the meeting at which the researchers submitted their papers to the Conference Panel and staff of the National…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Assessment
Askins, B. E.; Yarbrough, D. W. – 1984
Initiated in the 1981-82 school year, this three-year project was designed to organize and operate a bilingual education cooperative to provide financial and technical assistance to three school districts in their efforts to provide higher quality bilingual instructional services to approximately 190 Mexican American students. The three project…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Demonstration Programs, English (Second Language)
Oxley, Diana; And Others – 1988
A 3.5-year study of dropout prevention programs in New York City public schools shows that current programs have been effective in increasing professional and public awareness of the dropout problem and providing needed support to some students. However, the categorical approach of most programs is inadequate, providing special services to only a…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropouts, Educational Environment
Hubbell, Ruth; And Others – 1987
This volume, second of two, presents results of the formative evaluation of 14 Head Start programs that received grants for the purpose of demonstrating a variety of approaches to improving transition between Head Start programs and elementary schools. The evaluation was designed to obtain data on project implementation, successes, and obstacles.…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Compensatory Education, Day Care, Demonstration Programs
Wilson, Thomas A. – 1980
This paper, written by the director of the Documentation and Technical Assistance Project (DTA), reviews lessons learned from this project for enhancing problem solving capacities of urban schools, and assesses some of the reasons that the project was terminated ahead of schedule by the National Institute of Education. In the first chapter the…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Utilization
Reid, Jennifer; And Others – Interchange, 1996
This report describes a research project that studied: the speech and language needs of Scottish children and young people with special educational needs, collaboration among parents and professionals, and the perceived effectiveness of different ways of providing speech and language therapy. Data were obtained from a series of mailed…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Language Impairments
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn. Office of Educational Assessment. – 1987
During 1985-86, its first year, the Comprehensive School Improvement and Planning process (CSIP) operated in 156 of 392 New York City schools identified by the State Education Department's Comprehensive Assessment Report (CAR) as most in need of improvement. CSIP offers a holistic approach to school improvement and planning, and is designed to…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Educational Facilities Improvement, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Educational Evaluation. – 1982
Results of an evaluation of the 1981-82 Public Law 89-313 program, "Supplementary Services for Previously Non-Public-School Institutionalized Students," are presented in this report. The program was operated by the Division of Special Education of the New York City public schools and served 527 students (6-21 years old) in 227 schools,…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Community Schools, Disabilities, Educational Facilities
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