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Lucie Cerna; Luka Boeskens; Cecilia Mezzanotte; Samo Varsik; Ides Nicaise – OECD Publishing, 2024
The "OECD Review of Resourcing Schools to Address Educational Disadvantage in Ireland" provides an independent analysis meant to support Irish authorities in identifying ways to strengthen the resources and supports provided to students at risk of educational disadvantage in both DEIS and non-DEIS schools. The report serves three…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Resources, Educationally Disadvantaged, At Risk Students
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Mohite, Prerana – Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 1980
Evaluates three programs designed to prepare young children from educationally disadvantaged homes for school. (DB)
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, Foreign Countries
Ernst & Young Management Consultants, Canberra (Australia). – 1990
This report presents findings of an evaluation of Australia's Adult Literacy Action Campaign (ALAC) to determine whether ALAC was promoting the development of communication, literacy, and numeracy skills and skills to facilitate greater and enriched participation in society. Chapter 1 sets out the methodology and approach, which included a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Case Studies, Educationally Disadvantaged
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Convergence, 1974
Reporting on the second year of Sweden's experimental adult education program inititated in 1970, the article discusses the program's progress in reaching adults with inadequate education who, for geographic, economic, social, and psychological reasons, did not participate in adult education. (MW)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Educationally Disadvantaged, Foreign Countries
Richardson, Robin – Multicultural Teaching, 1997
Criticizes England's School Improvement Ideology (SCIMPI) campaign. It argues that SCIMPI underplays the basics of school improvement, ignores school practices that damage racial relations, place more emphasis on individual schools rather than the school system, and has clandestinely embedded within it destructive improvement practices that can…
Descriptors: Criticism, Educational Improvement, Educational Planning, Educational Practices
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
National Council of Jewish Women, New York, NY. Research Inst. for Innovation in Education. – 1982
This report describes the administrative structure, activities, and research projects of the Research Institute for Innovation in Education. The institute was established in 1968 as a cooperative project of the National Council of Jewish Women (USA) and the School of Education of the Hebrew University (Israel) with the goal of undertaking research…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Education Work Relationship, Educational Research
Wolfson, J. G. E. – Programmed Learning and Educational Technology, 1986
Describes a computer-based education project in which PLATO terminals were used to facilitate education of disadvantaged South African adult Blacks. South Africa's socioeconomic and political background, problems of adult learners, reasons for using a computer-based solution, and project funding are discussed, and project observations and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Blacks, Case Studies, Computer Assisted Instruction
Anderson, Stephen E. – 1987
Designed to assist providers of community-based employment training programs in the assessment of their efforts, this manual provides a conceptual framework and practical advice for planning and carrying out locally directed evaluations. After section I explains the purpose of the manual, section II presents a planning guide that establishes…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Community Services, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Briody, P. M. – 1980
The itinerant secondary remedial resource teacher service, designed to identify and help isolated country students in Queensland who are experiencing learning difficulties and to assist teachers in classrooms, program development, and resource strategy for exceptional learners, was evaluated seven months after project initiation in 1979. Data for…
Descriptors: Educationally Disadvantaged, Foreign Countries, Itinerant Teachers, Outreach Programs
Nevo, David; Friedman, Etel – 1992
The relationship among various characteristics of evaluation studies and their overall quality was studied using all of the evaluation studies (N=366) conducted in Israel over 30 years on special projects for disadvantaged students at the elementary school level. The following variables were defined to describe each study: (1) evaluation…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Definitions, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Assessment
Hatton, Elizabeth – 1994
This report evaluates school-based initiatives aimed at eliminating educational disadvantages at a small, rural state primary school in Meiki, New South Wales (Australia). Meiki is a small impoverished community of approximately 850 Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people. The community has a history of racial tension that directly affects the school…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Discipline, Early Intervention, Educationally Disadvantaged
Puhl, Carol A. – 1989
A South African project investigated effective methods of English language instruction for educationally disadvantaged black gold mine workers. Four instructors taught eight 3-week intensive classes, four by traditional language teaching methods and four by methods used at the Institute for Language Teaching of the University of Stellenbosch…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Blacks, Cognitive Development, Educationally Disadvantaged
Further Education Unit, London (England). – 1988
A study examined the views and experiences of a wide range of British individuals and organizations with a stake in the success of efforts to extend information technology programs to groups who have been traditionally underrepresented in them. A variety of research methods were used, including in-depth interviews, workshops, questionnaires, and a…
Descriptors: College Programs, Counseling Services, Curriculum Development, Dropouts
Fowler, Clifford F.; Peters, Joanne – 1983
Begun in 1978 to bring manual arts experience to children in Queensland's "disadvantaged country areas," the Mobile Manual Arts Unit by the end of the 1980 school year had visited 16 separate locations, involving 25 different schools. A total of 727 students had participated (out of a target population of 992 pupils) and a total of 259…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Distance, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education
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