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Testing, Counseling and Supportive Services for Disadvantaged Youth.
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Gordon, Jesse E. – 1969
Since the passage of the Manpower Development and Training Act of 1962 (MDTA), the Department of Labor has funded over $30 million worth of experimental and demonstration (E and D) projects in an effort to discover some new directions for dealing with the unemployment problems of disadvantaged youth. To evaluate the effectiveness of these and…
Descriptors: Counseling, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Innovation
Follow Through: Lessons Learned from Its Evaluation and Need to Improve Its Administration. Report to the Congress by the Comptroller General of the United States.
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Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1975
This report points out that although Follow Through, an experimental program designed to find more effective approaches to teaching young children from low-income families, achieved differences in outcome between Follow Through and non-Follow Through children, problems in its initial design and implementation will limit reaching statistically…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education, Experimental Programs, Federal Programs