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Barnett, Joshua H.; Wills, Kellie C.; Kirby, Peggy C. – National Institute for Excellence in Teaching, 2014
TAP™: The System for Teacher and Student Advancement was launched in 1999 as a comprehensive educator effectiveness model to offer career advancement and leadership opportunities for educators, a fair and transparent evaluation process linked to job-embedded professional development and performance-based compensation, which culminate in improved…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Models, Teacher Leadership, Promotion (Occupational)
Laney, Kahliah – Center for an Urban Future, 2013
With middle-income jobs in decline, entrepreneurship offers an increasingly promising pathway out of poverty; but few low-income New Yorkers are currently taking this route to economic self-sufficiency. This report provides the most comprehensive examination of low-income entrepreneurship in New York. The report documents current self-employment…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Low Income Groups, Self Employment, Barriers
Golann, Joanne Wang; Hughes, Katherine L. – James Irvine Foundation, 2008
This report from the Community College Research Center sheds light on the current policies and practices that shape "dual enrollment" efforts in California. The report, funded by The James Irvine Foundation, demonstrates the feasibility of using dual enrollment programs to enhance college and career pathways for low-income youth who are…
Descriptors: Models, College Credits, Dual Enrollment, High School Students
Barnett, Melissa A. – Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 2008
Economic disadvantage is associated with multiple risks to early socioemotional development. This article reviews research regarding family stress frameworks to model the pathways from economic disadvantage to negative child outcomes via family processes. Future research in this area should expand definitions of family and household to incorporate…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Family (Sociological Unit), Anxiety, Models
Burton, Linda – Family Relations, 2007
This article presents an emergent conceptual model of childhood adultification and economic disadvantage derived from 5 longitudinal ethnographies of children and adolescents growing up in low-income families. Childhood adultification involves contextual, social, and developmental processes in which youth are prematurely, and often…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Low Income Groups, Children, Family Environment
Coleman, Laurence – Gifted Child Today, 2006
The purpose of this article is to summarize what is generally known about talent development and schooling by stating some propositions about the way such programs are structured. This article sets the stage for a series of stories of programs that attempt to address the challenge of talent development in diverse low-income populations. The…
Descriptors: Talent Development, Economically Disadvantaged, Low Income Groups, School Organization

Halle, Tamara G.; Kurtz-Costes, Beth; Mahoney, Joseph L. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1997
Achievement-related beliefs and behaviors of parents of 41 economically disadvantaged African American youth and the relations among parental factors and children's academic self-concept and achievement were studied. Significant and positive relations between parental belief and behavior measures are discussed in light of models of family…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Patterns, Beliefs, Black Students

Trent, Stanley C. – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1997
Describes the first-year implementation of an inclusive education model for students with learning disabilities in an urban elementary school in which the student population is primarily African American and poor. Presents the program's activities and constraints along with case studies discussing the outcomes of two children. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Black Students, Case Studies, Disadvantaged Youth, Diversity (Student)
Mincy, Ronald B. – 1988
Most economists agree that the difficulties of targeting minimum wage increases to low-income families make such increases ineffective tools for reducing poverty. This paper provides estimates of the impact of minimum wage increases on the poverty gap and the number of poor families, and shows which factors are barriers to decreasing poverty…
Descriptors: Economic Change, Economic Factors, Economic Research, Economically Disadvantaged
Slinski, Margaret D. – 1990
The Master Teacher in Family Life model, developed by the University of Massachusetts Cooperative Extension, is intended to provide natural leaders within poor communities with information that will enable them to improve the quality of life in their neighborhoods. Building on strengths from within the community, the program trains leaders to: (1)…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Community Coordination, Community Development, Economically Disadvantaged
Vermont Univ., Burlington. Extension Service. – 1972
The purpose of this project was to design and test a model by which two agencies might work together as a means of each agency more effectively serving rural families in disadvantaged situations. This publication presents an evaluation not of client behavior in detail as such, but of the model as an educational process with particular attention to…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Coordination, Counseling Services, Economically Disadvantaged

Wyers, Norman L. – Journal of Education for Social Work, 1980
The findings of a national survey intended to determine the extent to which income maintenance studies are available in graduate or undergraduate social work programs are reviewed. The legitimization of income maintenance as a field of study is advocated and an educational model for the curriculum is presented. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Agency Role, Attitude Change, Counselor Attitudes, Curriculum Development
Koebel, C. Theodore; Price, Michael L. – 1988
This report is the result of an experimental effort by the Population Studies Program at the University of Louisville. The program investigated the feasibility of estimating the percentage of Kentucky residents in poverty at the county level based on a variety of income, employment, demographic, and public assistance data available annually for…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Demography, Economically Disadvantaged, Low Income Groups

Cunningham, James Virgil; Tidwell, Romeria – School Counselor, 1990
Describes cognitive-developmental counseling model designed to promote high school seniors' social readiness for college through process of "psychological education." Notes that program is specifically designed to encourage and support psychological growth of prospective college students from low socioeconomic status backgrounds. (NB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Restructuring, College Bound Students, College Preparation

Chatman, Elfreda A. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1986
Reports on a study of the awareness, use, and diffusion of job information in a low-income population as a test of diffusion theory. A review of the literature is included and major models are reexamined with information rather than technology as the innovation. Implications for librarians are discussed. (EM)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Diffusion (Communication), Economically Disadvantaged, Information Seeking
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