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Johnson, Christine; Johnson, Ray Lee – 1988
The Valued Youth Partnership of San Antonio (VYP) has been dramatically successful in improving educational opportunities for the highest risk students. In school districts with dropout rates of over 40%, the highest risk students over a 4-year period averaged dropout rates of 2.5%. This booklet provides program results for VYP for the period 1984…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
Bernal, Helen H.; And Others – 1977
The major thrust of this study in the Edgewood Independent School District's Experimental Schools Program in San Antonio, Texas, was the utilization of a conceptual model to understand and predict the factors affecting change in the project. Three treatments in the instructional program were selected for study: best paced mathematics, cultural…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Change Agents, Change Strategies, Educational Change
Jones, Earl – 1976
A five-year program, part of the Experimental Schools Program in the Edgewood Independent School District, in San Antonio, Texas, was designed to improve the school performance of its predominantly bilingual Mexican American primary grade students by improving the attitudes of beginning students. Program changes to reverse students' anticipated…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Educational Change, Federal Programs
Welch, Richard O. – 1977
A five-year bilingual, bicultural program, part of the Experimental Schools Program, employed by the Edgewood Independent School District, San Antonio, Texas, was designed to enhance the affective characteristics of the predominantly Mexican American student population, to train teachers to avoid socioeconomic and cultural biases, and to improve…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Behavior, Bilingual Education, Comparative Analysis
Cervantes, Robert A.; Jones, Earl – 1977
A communication skills program, initiated in the Edgewood Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas, in 1974, as part of the Experimental Schools Program, was conducted as part of a locally designed and implemented effort to improve the academic achievement of its largely Mexican American student body. Coinciding with the initiation of the…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Bilingualism, Classroom Environment, Communication Skills
Cervantes, Robert A.; Bernal, Helen Hazuda – 1977
A bilingual, bicultural program in the Edgewood Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas, part of the Experimental Schools Program, was designed to reverse "negative self concept, motivation, and attitudes" of its Mexican American students, and by so doing, improve their academic achievement. Efforts were employed to: (1)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Behavior, Bilingual Education, Cognitive Development
Peer reviewedFrontera, Lucy S.; Horowitz, Rosalind – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 1995
In a low-income south Texas school with primarily Mexican American students, teacher assessments of fourth-grade students' content reading ability and work habits predicted student success for that school year, as measured by grades and achievement scores. Teacher input can be critical in the early identification of students at risk of dropping…
Descriptors: Early Identification, Early Intervention, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary School Students
Potter, Francis J.; And Others – 1977
Designed and implemented to improve the academic achievement of a predominantly Mexican American student body, this project of the Edgewood Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas, part of the Experimental Schools Program, attempted to improve the affective and cognitive environment of the students through encouraging the use of Spanish,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Classroom Environment, Cultural Activities, Cultural Awareness
Munoz, Adolfo H.; Jones, Earl – 1972
A historical baseline report on the Edgewood Independent School District of San Antonio, Texas, was prepared by external evaluators to give direction to the coming evaluation of a National Institute of Education (NIE) Experimental Schools (ES) Program, designed to raise pupil achievement through improved administration and instruction, coupled…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Support, Disadvantaged Schools, Educational Assessment
Jones, Earl, Ed.; Davis, Peter B., Ed. – 1977
The Edgewood Independent School District (San Antonio, Texas), using a mini-system of one high school, one middle school, and four elementary schools, conducted an Experimental Schools Program from 1972-1977 to test a local decision making, long-term innovative program to effect substantial changes in the affective and cognitive characteristics of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Behavior, Bilingual Education, Cognitive Development
Development Associates, Inc., Arlington, VA. – 1977
Prepared to assist professional educators and researchers who want greater detail on certain aspects of the evaluation of the five-year Experimental Schools Program conducted by the Edgewood Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas, this supplement to the Final Report on the Edgewood School Plan is composed of abstracts that give the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Behavior, Bilingual Education, Communication Skills
