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Peer reviewedSwanson, Mary Catherine – Educational Leadership, 1989
Project AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination) is a four-year elective high school program that prepares underachieving, disadvantaged students to attend college. The program is now implemented in 58 secondary schools in San Diego County, California. (TE)
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, College Preparation, Compensatory Education, Developmental Studies Programs
Download full textLombardi, John – 1979
Four types of developmental education programs have been designed to help students overcome or compensate for: (1) deficiencies in grades or subjects required for admission to a senior institution or to colleges and transfer programs (Pre-Transfer); (2) deficiencies in reading, writing, speech, arithmetic, study habits, motivation, and other…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Community Colleges, Compensatory Education, Developmental Programs
Hartford Public Schools, CT. – 1984
Higher Horizons 100 (HH 100) is a compensatory program in the Hartford, Connecticut public schools designed to provide underachieving and undermotivated secondary school students with an integrated program of academic, cultural, and counseling services. HH 100 services were designed to develop and improve the basic skills of language and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Attendance
Joplin, Alan L.; Brown, Amy, Ed. – 1981
Developmental reading programs in traditionally black colleges and universities were compared with their white counterparts for 1979-80. Major areas of analysis were as follows: institutional characteristics, enrollment and retention, faculty status, program design, instructional delivery, course credit, and funding. A total of 113 two-year and…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Black Colleges, College Faculty, College Students
Bitterlin, Gretchen – 1981
This three-part report describes the Bridging Program at San Diego Mesa College (SDMC), a basic skills program to prepare students functioning at the 7th grade level or below and to thus provide a bridge between developmental education and adult basic education (ABE). Part I begins with a review of the program's background and a list of its…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Compensatory Education
Smith, Kurt B., Ed. – Connections, 1980
Programs serving underprepared college students at urban colleges and universities are examined in this bulletin. Pace University of New York City operates a one-year program for students who do not meet school requirements for admission in order to help them complete four years of college. Another program for students who cannot be admitted into…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Black Students, College Preparation, College Students
California State Postsecondary Education Commission, Sacramento. – 1989
This five-part report presents a statewide framework for assessing the impact of intersegmental programs designed to enhance student preparation for college, particularly those students who are historically underrepresented in postsecondary education. The first part of the report explains the origins of the study and the organization of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, College Admission, College Bound Students
