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Download full textPhiladelphia School District, PA. Office of Research and Evaluation. – 1976
This volume contains abstracts of the evaluation reports of projects funded under Title I ESEA during the 1975-76 school year. It is intended to provide the reader with a brief but comprehensive overview of the degree to which project goals were attained. Each abstract contains current management information, as well as information on observed…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Annual Reports, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth
Loveridge, Robert L.; Carapella, Ruth – 1979
This paper reports factors influencing developmental growth of disadvantaged 3- to 5-year-old preschool children in a Title I program at Euclid School, St. Louis, Missouri. A Preschool Academy was designed to serve 45 preschool pupils in an area served by two neighboring elementary schools. Pupils were divided into three groups and each group…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Cognitive Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Parent Influence
Clancy, Walter B. – 1978
A study was conducted to investigate the vocational education needs of disadvantaged and delinquent youth who have left school and come into negative contact with the criminal justice system. Specifically the objectives were (1) to identify the capacities and realistic vocational ambitions of the study population; (2) to assist these juveniles in…
Descriptors: Blacks, Counseling, Delinquency, Disadvantaged Youth
Harris, Susan L.; And Others – 1979
This paper reports on technical assistance provided to 21 exemplary Title I projects participating in a special dissemination strategy to improve educational services for disadvantaged students. The dissemination strategy is outlined, and descriptions are given of the participating projects. The types of technical assistance and support services,…
Descriptors: Ancillary Services, Compensatory Education, Delivery Systems, Demonstration Programs
CARTWRIGHT, WALTER J.; STEGLICH, W.G. – 1965
WITH THE COMPLETION OF THE FIRST GRADE BY THE FIRST HEAD START CLASS IN LUBBOCK, TEXAS, THIS STUDY WAS UNDERTAKEN TO PRESENT DATA ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE HEAD START PROGRAM IN IMPROVING DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN'S CHANCES FOR SCHOOL SUCCESS. TWO HUNDRED AND NINETY-FIVE URBAN AREA HEAD START CHILDREN FROM NEGRO, ANGLO-AMERICAN, AND…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Ethnic Groups
EGERTON, JOHN – 1968
THIS ARTICLE REPORTS ON THE STATUS OF COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY PROGRAM TO ADMIT "HIGH RISK" DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS. DATA WERE GATHERED FROM 159 PREDOMINANTLY WHITE INSTITUTIONS, 84 OF WHICH REPORTED SOME INVOLVEMENT IN PROGRAMS FOR HIGH RISK STUDENTS. DISCUSSED ARE SUCH ISSUES AS THE EXTENT OF THE COLLEGES' COMMITMENT, THE RATIONALE BEHIND THE…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, College Admission, College Programs, Disadvantaged Youth
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1975
This report points out that although Follow Through, an experimental program designed to find more effective approaches to teaching young children from low-income families, achieved differences in outcome between Follow Through and non-Follow Through children, problems in its initial design and implementation will limit reaching statistically…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education, Experimental Programs, Federal Programs
Doerr, William Anthony – 1976
This research project investigated the differences in reading achievement levels between students enrolled in Title I compensatory education programs and other students in the same school. Both groups also were compared to similar students in a school which did not receive Title I benefits. The evaluation process was based on an analysis of…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education
Simmons, Wilber D. – 1970
This study surveyed the extent of Special Educational Opportunity Programs (SEOP) for disadvantaged students among higher education institutions in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin, in an initial attempt to establish baseline data on the nature and range of SEOP activities. From the results of a questionnaire administered to both…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Colleges, Counseling Services, Disadvantaged Youth
Fox, David J.; And Others – 1967
Individualized and intensive daily therapy was provided to 870 New York City pupils with severe speech handicaps in this summer program funded by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title I. The evaluation focuses on pupil's progress in correction of speech problems, the effectiveness of the clinical methods, the reactions of the staff and…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Federal Programs, Parent Attitudes, Program Effectiveness
Weis, Susan F. – 1974
A three-phase program evaluation effort employing comparison groups and a pre-post test design indicate formative guidelines for programs revision and summative results indicative of the effectiveness of a demonstration associate degree program for hospitality education. Program effectiveness is defined in terms of the program's enrollment of…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Comparative Analysis, Demonstration Programs, Economically Disadvantaged
Mathews, Virginia H. – 1972
At an institute at the University of Oklahoma, some 85 people from Arkansas, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma discussed ways to improve cross-cultural and user developed library services to all types of disadvantaged persons. The participants were librarians and representatives of the minorities, the culturally different, and the poor.…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Disadvantaged, Institutes (Training Programs), Librarians
System Development Corp., Falls Church, VA. – 1970
To identify and assess the impact of the Urban Concentrated Employment Program (CEP) on 14 selected cities, each community was divided into the three major areas of potential impact--the general community, employers, and participants in the program. Data were obtained from interviews and mailed questionnaires. Several operational factors limited…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Employment Programs, Job Training, Labor Force Development
Norton, Robert E.; And Others – 1971
The Oklahoma exemplary program located at Tulsa was designed to provide occupational orientation and vocational training for disadvantaged and previously unserved students from Grade 5 through 12 in a comprehensive urban school system. To evaluate the program, data were collected about the: (1) contest or goals and objectives of the program in…
Descriptors: Career Exploration, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Administration
Levine, Louis; Norton, John Herbert – 1969
Despite the success of some antipoverty programs, it is not evident that conditions in poverty areas have improved; in fact, some indicators show that living conditions in the slums are worsening. One of the biggest difficulties is a lack of data on the nature of, and solutions to, the problems of these areas. Frequently revised data at least as…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Disadvantaged Environment, Information Needs
