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Hampton, Peter J. – Educational Forum, 1974
Discussed talent search programs and their objectives, such as finding disadvantaged students who, with developmental assistance and financial support, could profit from additional education and training, and then counsel these students and help them find academic admission and occupational placement. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Definitions, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Objectives, High School Students
Friedrich, Gerhard – College Board Review, 1970
College and high school teachers must cooperate in the development of the disadvantaged able student as well as give remedial attention to the culturally and socially deprived. (IR)
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Advanced Placement, Advanced Placement Programs, Curriculum
Callahan, Mary-Mack; Wolk, Ronald A., Ed. – 1999
This report presents principles and practices associated with establishing and maintaining effective community-based partnerships. Since 1993 a total of 25 private colleges and universities and nearly 30 community groups have participated in the College/Community Partnership Program, an effort to encourage private colleges and community groups to…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Higher Education, Low Income Groups

Hummel, Mary; Steele, Claude – Journal of Intergroup Relations, 1996
Describes the 21st Century Program at the University of Michigan, a program to address issues of academic achievement and student retention in higher education. The conceptual basis for this program comes from C. Steele's work that finds that there are disruptive pressures tied to racial stereotypes that in turn diminish academic performance. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Disadvantaged Youth, Ethnic Groups
PROJECT PATS: "Potentially Academically Talented Students." Final Technical Report, 10/1/80-6/30/82.
Pfeffer, J. S.; And Others – 1982
The final report describes a 2-year pilot project to identify and program for disadvantaged potentially gifted students in grades 5-8. Two goals of the program are stated: (1) to establish a working partnership among public and nonpublic schools and higher education; and (2) to integrate disadvantaged potentially gifted with nondisadvantaged…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education, Gifted Disadvantaged
Meehan, Merrill L.; Cowley, Kimberly S.; Whittaker, Denise – 2001
In 1999, Fairmont State College (West Virginia) received a Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) grant for a 5-year program designed to encourage college aspirations and preparation among disadvantaged rural youth. During the first 2 years, parents and students in nine counties were surveyed to determine their…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Administrator Attitudes, College Preparation, Disadvantaged Youth
Anapol, Malthon M., Ed. – MWCA Encoder, 1978
The four articles in this publication address the following topics: opportunities for developing a graduate program in international and intercultural communication in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area; the nature of bilingualism and biculturalism in an urban context and their implications for intercultural communication; a typology of…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingualism, Black Dialects, Black Youth
Lechuga, Vicente M. – 2000
This paper provides a basic understanding of the Pell Grant program and summarizes the evidence regarding its effectiveness. The Basic Educational Opportunities Program, known as the Pell Grant program, began in 1973 as a means of providing disadvantaged students access to a postsecondary education. The Pell Grant program has tried to keep up with…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Futures (of Society), Grants
Michael, Jacqueline R. – 1989
This document includes a report describing the Precollegiate Enrichment Program at West Georgia College and a handbook developed by the program. The program was designed to meet both financial and volunteer needs of college students and to encourage children, ages 10-12, to continue their education past high school. Twenty academically talented…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, College Students, Compensation (Remuneration), Disadvantaged Youth
Penfield, Elizabeth F. – 1979
A proficiency test became the exit requirement for the noncredit, basic English course at the University of New Orleans because the program was not working well. There were inconsistencies in grading, and students who managed to pass the course later foundered in the credit courses. Obviously, the teachers needed to cooperate to raise the goals of…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Standards, College Freshmen, Compensatory Education
Bracy, Randolph, Jr. – 1972
No program, regardless of its scope, is going to be a panacea in assessing and dealing with the needs of disadvantaged students. What has been done and what is being done in the field of compensatory higher education programs are only the beginning, but they are efforts in the right direction. Until American society recognizes the challenge to…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, College Admission, College Curriculum, College Desegregation
Braun, Kurt; And Others – 1977
Results are presented of a national workshop designed to improve educational and employment opportunities for handicapped and disadvantaged persons by providing a setting for fifteen university teams (one from each of the ten U.S. Office of Education regions and five at large) to develop specific plans of action for the creation or expansion of…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Legislation, Educational Planning
Dowler, Lloyd – 1978
This module on assessing the needs of disadvantaged students is one of a set of seven on vocational students and is part of a larger series of thirty-four modules constituting a core curriculum intended for use in the professional preparation of vocational educators in the areas of agricultural, business, home economics, and industrial education.…
Descriptors: Competency Based Teacher Education, Core Curriculum, Disadvantaged Youth, Federal Aid
Fenske, Robert H.; Geranios, Christine A.; Keller, Jonathan E.; Moore, David E. – 1997
This digest summarizes a larger document of the same title which examines early intervention programs providing services and resources to encourage low-income/minority youth to finish high school and enter college. It notes provisions of federal law which encourage such programs and the unifying mission of the National Early Intervention…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Attendance, College School Cooperation, Disadvantaged Youth
Kimeldorf, Martin – 1991
This book is a compilation of information about youth service in the State of Washington, a summary of the benefits and challenges to increasing youth service, and a summary of strategic options for supporting and enhancing youth service statewide. The report is divided into five sections. The first part describes many examples of youth…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Services, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth
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