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Download full textNew York State Education Dept., Albany. Office of Higher and Professional Education. – 1974
This research study conducted by the Bureau of Higher Education Opportunity Programs and supported by the Bureau of Research in Higher and Professional Education attempted to gain a longitudinal perspective on the effectiveness of Higher Education Opportunity Programs (HEOP) established in 53 private institutions of higher education aimed to the…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Assessment
Melaragno, Ralph J.; And Others – 1978
The executive summary briefly restates the results of a 17-month excursion into the realm of compensatory education of older disadvantaged youth. During September 1976 through January 1978, System Development Corporation conducted a project to conceptualize models for compensatory educational intervention at the secondary and postsecondary levels,…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged
Word, U.G., Jr. – 1968
Findings are presented of a four-year study on reaching rural disadvantaged youth through an informal education program called the Arkansas Special Youth Project. The information provides a framework for expanding 4-H. Specific methods and techniques used in working with the disadvantaged are outlined and evaluated in terms of the resultant…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavioral Objectives, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth
West, Leonard J.; And Others – 1970
This report is an evaluation of the College Discovery and Development (CDD) Program Prong II, operated jointly by the New York City Board of Education and by the City University of New York. This compensatory education program prepares disadvantaged students for college entrance and for success in college. The major purpose of this evaluation is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Preparation, Compensatory Education, Economically Disadvantaged
Journal of Educational Opportunity, 1997
Study of Upward Bound programs, designed to help disadvantaged high school students attend and succeed in college, finds participants have higher educational expectations and college-preparatory achievement than do nonparticipants; Hispanic students and students with initially lower expectations benefit most; there is no impact on students' high…
Descriptors: College Preparation, Developmental Studies Programs, Economically Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged
Yarbrough, Stephen L. – 1984
The personal developmental levels of students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds were studied; and the hypothesis that students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds would be less mature than other students in the developmental levels of autonomy, purpose, and interpersonal relationships was assessed. The effects of participation in…
Descriptors: Career Development, College Freshmen, Course Evaluation, Developmental Tasks
Meldrum, Christina; Eaton, Susan E. – 1994
This report reviews school department data and interviews with officials and others involved in the Norfolk (Virginia) school resegregation plan designed to stem White flight and increase parental involvement. The report finds that all the basic assumptions the local community and the court had about the potential benefits of undoing the city's…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Court Litigation, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Planning
Farrow, Earl Vann; And Others – 1977
Rutgers Upward Bound program participants were recruited from 16 New Jersey high schools upon completion of the tenth grade. Students with potential for achieving success in a two- or four-year college were selected, despite lack of appropriate educational background. Subjects of this longitudinal study were 345 volunteers who participated in the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged, Economically Disadvantaged
Nyquist, Ewald B. – 1974
The status of the Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP) is reviewed in terms of enrollments, program financing and financial aid, academic programs, and measurement of outcomes. Separate documents report on the 1973-1974 activities for private-sector institutions funded under HEOP, for the City University Search for Education, Elevation and…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Admission Criteria, Correctional Education, Disadvantaged Youth
Jablonsky, Adelaide, Comp. – 1974
This annotated bibliography is the seventh in the Doctoral Research Series. It encompasses doctoral research on "Special Secondary School Programs for the Disadvantaged" reported in "Dissertation Abstracts International" from 1965 through June 1973. The citations are arranged in the following categories: College Preparatory…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, College Preparation, College Programs, Compensatory Education
Quebec Dept. of Education, Quebec. – 1973
The first section of the report (which is written in French) presents the ten recommendations of the commission which conducted the study to the Minister of Education, and the five principles on which the recommendations are based: (1) the adult's right to education, (2) the necessity of an integrated system of adult education, (3) the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Coordination, Disadvantaged
Hartford Public Schools, CT. – 1974
As originally developed, Projecto Exito, often referred to as the Bilingual Community School or simply as "Escuelita," was in name and in deed a comprehensive community-based approach to the problems of bilingual education, funded under Title VII of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act. Intended to serve Spanish and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Community Schools, Compensatory Education
Armon, Edward F., Ed.; And Others – 1972
The East Cleveland "Enriched and Extended School Year" program, funded by Title III of the 1965 Elementary Education Act, is an attempt to organize the educational activities of a school around the needs and learning patterns of its pupils. The major premise of the program states that children possess different rates and styles of…
Descriptors: Black Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity. – 1971
Two witnesses presented testimony: Dr. Michael Kirst, School of Education and Business Administration, Stanford University; and Dr. Stephen Bailey, chairman, Policy Institute, Syracuse University Research Corporation, and Regent of the State of New York. An article by Dr. Kirst, "Delivery System for Federal Aid to Disadvantaged Children:…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Finance
Bergenn, Victor W. – 1976
The primary objective of the College Discovery and Development Program (CDD), funded under the Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I, has been the discovery and development of the college potential of high school youth who are academically and financially disadvantaged. This program was designed to improve the reading and mathematics…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, Compensatory Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged
