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Gonzalez, Katie; Bernstein, Sara; Malone, Lizabeth; Larson, Addison – Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2021
COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization and a public health emergency by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control in March 2020 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2020). In the following months, families in the U.S. experienced financial hardships such as job and income loss, increasing food insecurity, and loss of…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Preschool Education, COVID-19
Bernstein, Sara; Bush, Charles; Aikens, Nikki; Moiduddin, Emily; Harding, Jessica F.; Malone, Lizabeth; Tarullo, Louisa; Cannon, Judy; Filipczak, Kai; Lukashanets, Serge – Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2019
Head Start is a national program that promotes school readiness by enhancing the social and cognitive development of children through the provision of educational, health, nutritional, social, and other services to enrolled children and families. The Head Start program provides comprehensive child development services to economically disadvantaged…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Preschool Children, Economically Disadvantaged, Teacher Characteristics
Coombs Richardson, Rita; Vafa, Sherry; Litton, Freddie – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2017
By providing early access to education, early childhood and community-based programs are helping to close the achievement gap prevalent among children from impoverished homes.
Descriptors: Poverty, Access to Education, Achievement Gap, School Community Relationship
Moiduddin, Emily; Bush, Charles; Manley, Mikia; Aikens, Nikki; Tarullo, Louisa; Malone, Lizabeth; Lukashanets, Serge – Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2017
This report includes key information on the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey 2014-2018 (FACES 2014) study design and a set of data tables presents descriptive statistics for the characteristics of classrooms, teachers, centers, and programs serving Head Start children and families in spring 2015. Data are drawn from the spring 2015…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Preschool Children, Economically Disadvantaged, Teacher Characteristics
Kelchen, Robert; Goldrick-Rab, Sara – Institute for Research on Poverty, 2013
The persistently low college enrollment and completion rates of youth from poor families are partly attributable to their uncertainty about whether college is affordable. In the current system, concrete information about college costs arrives at the end of high school and is only available to those who complete a complex application. Evidence…
Descriptors: Grants, Federal Aid, Federal Programs, Feasibility Studies
Baker, Courtney N.; Kupersmidt, Janis B.; Voegler-Lee, Mary Ellen; Arnold, David H.; Willoughby, Michael T. – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2010
Preschools provide a promising setting in which to conduct preventive interventions for childhood problems, but classroom programs can only be effective if teachers are willing and able to implement them. This study is one of the first to investigate predictors of the frequency of teacher participation in a classroom-based, randomized controlled…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Early Intervention, Job Satisfaction, Self Efficacy
What Works Clearinghouse, 2008
"Job Corps," a federally funded education and job training program for economically disadvantaged youth, offers remedial education, GED (General Educational Development) preparation, vocational training, job placement assistance, and other supports. "Job Corps" participants typically reside in a "Job Corps" center…
Descriptors: Job Training, Federal Programs, Youth Programs, Program Effectiveness
Rose, Elizabeth – History of Education Quarterly, 2009
Head Start, the federal program that provides preschool education, health, and social services for children from poor families, is one of the United States' most popular government programs. Created in 1965, it has endured as a symbol of commitment to children, serving just fewer than one million children a year in neighborhood sites across the…
Descriptors: Nursery Schools, Poverty, Preschool Education, Economically Disadvantaged
Darrow, Catherine L. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2009
The objective of this report is to review studies that report language and literacy outcomes associated with preschool curriculum-based interventions. Results from studies reporting on interventions targeting preschool children from low-income families were included regardless of the specific type of program. Although the majority of preschool…
Descriptors: Preschool Curriculum, Preschool Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth
Duffield, Barbara; Lovell, Phillip – National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth, 2008
While the economic downturn has appropriately become the top priority of policy makers, one element of the crisis has gone largely unnoticed: its impact on children and youth. Largely due to the economic and housing crises, many school districts across the country report increases in the number of homeless students in the classroom. "The Economic…
Descriptors: Public Agencies, Disadvantaged Youth, Homeless People, Economic Impact
Federal Aid Planner: A Guide for School District Administrators, 1972
What school administrators should know about new Federal guidelines on spending Title I money. Covers the extent of parent participation, publicizing the programs, attaining comparability, teacher bonuses, selecting target schools, assessing children's needs, evaluation, and pitfalls to avoid. (Author)
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Finance, Evaluation
Job Corps, 2008
This paper presents the recommendations made by the Advisory Committee on Job Corps to the Secretary of Labor pertaining to the review, development and implementation of policies, legislation and regulations for the Job Corps program. This document represents the culmination of an intensive and comprehensive nine-month process undertaken by the…
Descriptors: Job Training, Labor, Federal Programs, Program Effectiveness
Corporation for Public/Private Ventures, Philadelphia, PA. – 1980
This volume is one of the products of the knowledge development activities mounted in conjunction with research, evaluation, and development activities funded under the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977. Based on the Ventures in Community Improvement (VICI) "enhanced" job training/job placement approach, which used…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth
Copenhaver, Christina; Boelke, Joanne – 1968
This selective bibliography covers library services and materials for the culturally, educationally, or economically deprived in the United States and Canada. It includes 365 references to journal and newspaper articles, reports, books, bibliographies, theses, and pamphlets published from 1960 to Fall, 1968, with emphasis on materials dated 1965…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Conferences, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth
Kennedy, Mary M.; And Others – 1986
This paper presents excerpts from the introductory and summary chapters of an interim report published in January 1986, the first of three reports to be produced as part of the National Assessment of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 (ECIA) Chapter 1. The interim report, which is intended to provide an analytic and…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged