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Gallagher, Megan – Urban Institute, 2015
Schools and youth-serving organizations often struggle to better meet the needs of low-income students and to connect them to resources that can stabilize their lives and strengthen their academic competencies. Assisted-housing providers, including housing authorities, are in a unique position to support educators, low-income students, and their…
Descriptors: Public Housing, Urban Schools, Partnerships in Education, Low Income Groups
Henderson, Anne T. – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University (NJ1), 2010
The program profiles presented in this paper provide background for the research report "Building Local Leadership for Change: A National Scan of Parent Leadership Training Programs." The full report describes four types of parent leadership training programs identified in the scan and gives examples of each. These four types are: (1)…
Descriptors: Parents, Leadership Training, Adult Programs, Adult Education
Nerden, Joseph T.; And Others – 1973
An evaluation team obtained data during a three-day on-site visit to the Bridgeport (Conn.) Career Education project regarding personnel, school-community activities and support, learning activities and projects, curriculum and materials, teacher attitudes, and other factors. Evaluative data were obtained from suggested instruments, from…
Descriptors: Career Education, Curriculum Evaluation, Personnel Evaluation, Program Administration
Alamprese, Judith A. – 1993
Connecticut's Adult Performance Program (CAPP), which was initiated in 1986, is a mix of policies, training, and technical assistance activities based on the following elements: specification of expected competency-based program outcomes; development of an assessment and instructional model to facilitate achievement of the program outcomes;…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Agency Cooperation, Basic Skills, Competency Based Education
Connecticut State Dept. of Income Maintenance, Hartford. – 1992
The Job Connection, which meets the requirements stipulated in the Family Support Act of 1988, is structured to ensure that needy families with children obtain the education, training, and employment needed to help them avoid long-term welfare dependence. The Job Connection program is administered through Connecticut's Department of Income…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Vocational Education, Basic Skills, Employment Services
Mahan, Thomas W. – 1968
The final technical report summarizes the development, operations, and effectiveness of Project Concern, Hartford's program of suburban school placement for inner-city children. This approach to educational improvement through busing disadvantaged students to neighboring towns was funded in part by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bus Transportation, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropouts