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Detroit Public Schools, MI. Dept. of Evaluation and Testing. – 1985
Described are aspects of the evaluation of the Detroit (Michigan) Public Schools' 1985 Chapter 1 Citywide Summer School program, a program implemented to improve the reading and mathematics skills of students from pre-kindergarten classes through grade 8. A random sample of 18 schools, including elementary and middle schools, was selected for…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Elementary Education, Mathematics Instruction, Program Evaluation
Download full textNew York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Research, Evaluation, and Assessment. – 1989
The 1989 New York City Pupils with Compensatory Educational Needs (PCEN) Summer Remediation Program met or exceeded each of its objectives. The program comprised basic skills and English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) courses, serving 12,785 students in 880 classes in the regular high schools and an unspecified number of students at 73 off-site…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, English (Second Language), High Schools
Donaldson, William S. – 1990
The 1990 Summer Academic Skills Achievement Program in Columbus (Ohio) provided 160 hours of instruction in reading comprehension and language mechanics skills needed for entry-level employment to 123 Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) clients. The program used a "whole language" approach to grammar and composition instruction and also…
Descriptors: Attendance, Black Students, Federal Programs, High Schools
Chicago Board of Education, IL. – 1965
This report lists the goals of the Head Start project and describes its organization and procedures. A brief introduction describes the need for preschool education in Chicago and past and present programs which have attempted to meet the need. The report describes the children's social and economic deprivation. More attention, however, is given…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Educational Needs, Information Dissemination, Parent Attitudes
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1978
This report provides background and data from an investigation of New York City's summer youth employment program. It concludes that the program was poorly planned and poorly administered by both the Department of Labor and the city. Although some of the worksites visited were providing useful work experience to enrolled youths, over half of the…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Programs, Federal Aid
Public/Private Ventures, Philadelphia, PA. – 1984
An independent evaluation of the Career Explorations program found it to be worthy of both continuation and replication. Career Explorations is a summer youth program operated by Hunter College (New York) in cooperation with The Coalition of 100 Black Women, and supported by The Commonwealth Fund. Its aim is to help minority New York City high…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Counseling, Cooperative Programs, Educational Opportunities
PDF pending restorationProcidano, Mary E.; Glenwick, David S. – 1985
This monograph is the third of a trilogy of studies on the Unitas Therapeutic Community, a program that attempts to strengthen the competencies of the Hispanic and Black youngsters living in the Longwood/Hunts Point section of the South Bronx, New York City. The program uses indigenous nonprofessionals as surrogate parents, uncles, and aunts for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Patterns, Black Youth, Developmental Psychology
Thompson, Denise R. – 1989
This document comprises an evaluation of the 1988 METRO Achievement Program, a summer educational program to help develop the academic potential of primarily Black and Hispanic girls entering the seventh and eighth grades in Chicago. The 5-week program included the following components: (1) mathematics, science, and communication skills classes;…
Descriptors: Black Students, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Females
