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Improving Public Speaking Skills in the Seventh Grade Compensatory Education Student through Enhanced Instruction and Opportunity for Practice.
Wilson, Nan Kelly – 1989
This practicum addressed the problem of seventh grade compensatory education students' not having adequate instruction, opportunity, or experience to prepare for success in any level of eighth grade English. Overall goals for the practicum were to give instruction in public speaking, to provide opportunities for students to engage in public…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, English Curriculum, Grade 7, Junior High Schools
METRO Achievement Program: Summer 1988. External Evaluation Report.
Thompson, Denise R. – 1989
This document comprises an evaluation of the 1988 METRO Achievement Program, a summer educational program to help develop the academic potential of primarily Black and Hispanic girls entering the seventh and eighth grades in Chicago. The 5-week program included the following components: (1) mathematics, science, and communication skills classes;…
Descriptors: Black Students, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Females
Basic Skills Study Report. Agenda Item 4.
California Community Colleges, Sacramento. Office of the Chancellor. – 1979
A discussion of the nature and scope of basic skills training introduces a series of recommendations for the improved effectiveness of this training based on a survey of California community colleges. The first sections of this report discuss issues of community college responsibility for basic skills training, its priority as an institutional…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Role, Community Colleges, Compensatory Education