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New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. – 1986
New Jersey's Public School Education Act of 1975 requires local school districts to provide students with "thorough and efficient" educational opportunity. This report describes State initiatives carried out as of April 1986 to help urban districts comply with the act's mandate in the face of the particularly complex and concentrated…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Descriptions, Program Implementation
New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. – 1987
This report describes New Jersey's continuing efforts to help urban school districts comply with the state's Public School Education Act of 1975 in view of the particularly complex problems which the urban districts face in complying with the act's mandate requiring all districts to provide their students with a "thorough and efficient"…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Descriptions, Program Implementation
Ingle, Judith K. – 1985
Since 1984, the Language Arts Lab at Irmo High School (Columbia, South Carolina) has provided: (1) remediation in reading and writing to students with low standardized test scores; and (2) assistance to other students in the areas of study skills, college entrance exam preparation, term papers, reading and reading assignments, grammar, and…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, High Schools, Language Arts, Language Skills
Download full textPorter, Al – 1988
This assessment of New Jersey's Mercer County Community College's (MCCC's) remedial program provides a program overview, results of a two-year follow-up of fall 1986 remedial students, and comparative data from previous years. The program overview examines policies and procedures concerning placement criteria, exit standards, program acceptance,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cohort Analysis, High Risk Students, Longitudinal Studies
Chapman, Bernadine S. – 1982
This report presents the Academic Retention and Talent Retrieval components of the Special Services Program at Northern Illinois University. The support structures are described in detail, including: CHANCE counseling, which assists students with academic and financial planning, personal growth, peer tutoring, and career counseling; and the Talent…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Counseling, College Students, Dropout Prevention
Indiana State Dept. of Education, Indianapolis. – 1985
The Indiana Basic Competency Skills Testing and Remediation Program manual states that the purpose of the testing program is to assist Indiana's educators with the implementation of remediation programs, and to assess overall educational programs. Procedures for administering the tests of reading, mathematics, and writing in grades 3 and 6 are…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Elementary Education, Grade 3, Grade 6
Philadelphia School District, PA. Office of Research and Evaluation. – 1978
Evaluation of 33 Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I projects, together with 14 summer components, in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania school system are summarized. After the summary, each of the projects are described separately. The project reports include identification and descriptive data followed by comments on observed activities,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Compensatory Education, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
Prince George's Community Coll., Largo, MD. – 1979
The advisement system at Prince George's Community College is designed to afford each student complete information and preparation for entry into appropriate courses. Student movement through the process is determined by whether the student is considered first-time, transfer, concurrent enrollment, a veteran, non-matriculated, handicapped,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Counseling Objectives, Counselor Role, Developmental Programs
Frye, Thomas M.; And Others – 1979
This document evaluates a five component title I program supported by Community School District 23, Brooklyn, New York. The five components were (1) Mathematics Program for third through eighth graders; (2) Reading Laboratories Program for third through eighth graders; (3) Early Childhood Program for Kindergarten through second graders; (4)…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Compliance (Legal), Early Childhood Education, Educationally Disadvantaged
Portsmouth School Dept., RI. – 1979
The sixth of eight related documents, this monograph describes the parent study group aspect of the Reading Instruction and Pupil Personnel Services (RIPPS) program. The document describes the background and rationale for this parenting program, designed to help parents understand their child and the role parents play in a child's development, and…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Conferences, Parent Influence
Miller, Maria – 1978
The benefits and the role of speech communication courses in developmental education programs are examined in this paper. The first section outlines the need for a package of developmental classes that includes a course in speech communication to prepare students for college-level courses. It describes a successful developmental program for…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Communication Skills, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development
Smith, Geoffrey – 1979
The document describes the basic skills programs in reading and mathematics of the High School in the Community (HSC) in New Haven, Connecticut. HSC, designed to provide a choice of learning environments within the public school system, serves students dissatisfied with their previous school experience. Each student, on entering HSC, is screened…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Schools, Cooperative Planning, Individualized Programs
Turner, W. E.; Bare, Janet – 1972
The Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I program described in this paper served 1550 educationally deprived pupils in 82 Kansas elementary and junior high schools during the 1971-1972 academic year. The primary goals of the reading program were to improve and upgrade word recognition and reading skills and to improve pupils' attitudes. The…
Descriptors: Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Education, Junior High Schools, Primary Education
Nelson, Jeffrey B. – American Education, 1978
The HIT (High Intensity Tutoring) program in two middle schools in Highland Park, Michigan, helps younger students come up to grade level in math and reading with special tutoring by older students, most of whom formerly needed tutoring themselves. (MF)
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Helping Relationship, Inner City, Low Achievement
Peer reviewedLazarick, Len – Community College Journal, 1997
Defines postsecondary remedial education and discusses the controversy surrounding it, including who will be responsible for paying its tuition, the amount of remediation that should be offered in two-year versus four-year colleges, and mounting pressures from state legislators and policymakers. (VWC)
Descriptors: College Students, Community Colleges, Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Trends
