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Ford Foundation, New York, NY. – 1984
The Ford Foundation's City High School Recognition Program (conducted in l982-83), was designed to find, document, and recognize the overall progress made in recent years by inner city high schools that previously had been failing. Through a blend of $l,000 recognition awards and $20,000 project grants, the program sought to reinforce the most…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Educational Improvement, High Schools, Improvement Programs
Peer reviewedCampeau, Peggie L. – Journal of Educational Equity and Leadership, 1983
Describes an assessment procedure used by the American Institutes of Research in a management-oriented evaluation of the Women's Educational Equity Act Program (WEEAP). Also summarizes findings of the assessment and recommendations in the context of WEEAP's legislative mandate and equity issues. (GC)
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Evaluation Methods, Federal Programs, Information Dissemination
Charles R. Drew Postgraduate Medical School, Los Angeles, CA. – 1981
The articles in this booklet were developed as part of the Infant/Parent Education Project, operated by the Pediatric Department of the Charles R. Drew Postgraduate Medical School (Los Angeles, CA) and funded by the Bureau for the Education of the Handicapped. Under the project, a model program was developed to serve handicapped minority infants…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Community Characteristics, Cultural Differences, Demonstration Programs
Download full textPottmeyer, Denise L., Comp. – 1999
This report provides an overview of projects funded under Section 353 of the Adult Education Act (1991) that support Ohio's efforts to develop individual growth and leadership in the field of adult basic and literacy education (ABLE) and program improvement. The programs profiled are grouped in the following categories: resource centers; ABLE…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy, Demonstration Programs
Murray, Saundra R.; And Others – 1982
This final report for the PUSH-EXCEL project was designed to provide readers with an idea of the major actors and events that shaped the project's history and implementation, and to describe results of a 3-year evaluation of its impact (Chapter 1). Chapter 2 describes the original impetus for PUSH-EXCEL as arising from the Reverend Jesse Jackson's…
Descriptors: Activism, Black Education, Demonstration Programs, Educational Improvement
Biester, Thomas W.; And Others – 1983
This report presents the results of a New Jersey school district field test of a comprehensive administrator training program. The program's main objectives were to develop a knowledge-utilization approach to the improvement of instruction and student achievement in basic skills, and to develop and test strategies for installing and disseminating…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Role, Basic Skills, Board of Education Role
