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Borman, Geoffrey D. – Center on Education Policy, 2009
Since the 1960s, there have been continuing federal efforts to bring reform to scale in high-poverty elementary and secondary schools across the U.S. This paper traces the evolution of these efforts and discusses their impacts on achievement outcomes. Drawing on evidence from meta-analyses of the Title I evaluation literature and the Comprehensive…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Educational Change, Poverty Programs, Disadvantaged
Greenberg, Mark – 1993
Noting the while there may be much support for the principle that families on welfare should have access to 2 years of education and training and then be expected to work, this paper contends that it will be extremely difficult, perhaps impossible, to design a coherent and constructive program within the probable federal budget constraints. In…
Descriptors: Employment, Family Programs, Federal Legislation, Low Income Groups
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Ream, John W.; Wagner, Brenda G; Knorr, Robin C. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2001
Focuses on the development and implementation of a customer service call center training program, implemented by Metropolitan Community Colleges (Missouri) to assist welfare recipients overcome the obstacles facing them in the workplace. Discusses components of the program, and its effects on both the consumer and the corporate community. (AUTH/NB)
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Community Colleges, Continuing Education, Job Skills
Morris-Bilotti, Sharon – 1992
This question-and-answer format paper looks at some of the basic issues surrounding the chronically poor and initiatives and services designed to break the poverty cycle. A first section explores some of the myths and realities surrounding the characteristics of the chronically poor population and notes that this population is comprised of…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Blacks, Children, Corporate Support
Quay, Lorene C. – 1993
This research review focuses on the effects of early intervention on the preschool children of low-income families, examining studies of intervention programs begun in the 1960s through the present. It then relates this analysis to the new Georgia Prekindergarten Program. The interventions reviewed are grouped into four hierarchical categories…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Disadvantaged Environment, Environmental Influences, Family Programs