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Download full textGEWIRTZ, MARVIN H.; AND OTHERS – 1966
A 7-WEEK SUMMER INSTITUTE COURSE FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS, SUPERVISORS, AND ADMINISTRATORS WHO WORK WITH DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN WAS EVALUATED BY QUESTIONNAIRE. THE PURPOSE OF THE EVALUATION WAS TO (1) MEASURE THE IMMEDIATE IMPACT OF THE COURSE ON THE PARTICIPANTS, (2) OBTAIN A SELF-ESTIMATE OF THE PARTICIPANTS' ATTITUDES, (3) EXPLORE…
Descriptors: Administrators, Disadvantaged Youth, Evaluation, Inservice Teacher Education
McNamara, Robert J. – 1967
This analysis of the Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC) In-School Enrollee was based on a probability sampling of all the nation's youths enrolled in the program. 3,618 were studied. A comparative group of 1,143 similar line poverty youngsters in the same schools, but not in the Neighborhood Youth Corps, were also analyzed in areas where parallelisms…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Disadvantaged Youth, Federal Programs, High School Students
Arizona State Dept. of Public Instruction, Phoenix. – 1966
THE FIRST SECTION OF THIS REPORT DESCRIBES HOW TITLE I ACTIVITIES WERE INITIATED IN ARIZONA AND THE VICISSITUDES OF COORDINATING THEM WITH OTHER PROJECTS FUNDED UNDER THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT AND OTHER FEDERAL ACTS. MAJOR ADMINISTRATIVE PROBLEMS INCLUDED (1) UNDERSTAFFING WHICH HINDERED THE STATE IN PROCESSING PROPOSALS, (2)…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Annual Reports, Community Action, Compensatory Education
McNamara, Robert J. – 1968
Factors such as jobs, counseling, family backgrounds and relationships, adult associations, school personnel influence, and general poverty characteristics were analyzed within the Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC) and comparative groups of youths. Focus was placed on how these elements influenced their adjustment to self and school. Although 84% of…
Descriptors: Attendance, Comparative Analysis, Disadvantaged Youth, Federal Programs
Cobb, Herman; Hunter, Earl – 1971
The effectiveness of the Nichols Avenue Follow-Through Program, in Washington, D.C., and the extent to which it provides for improving opportunities for children of low-income families to learn and achieve up to and above national norms in the areas of reading and mathematics were evaluated. The program goals were to assure that: (1) by the end of…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education, Federal Programs, Grade 1
Nowicki, Stephen, Jr.; Barnes, Jarvis – 1970
In summer of 1970, the Atlanta Public Schools received funds for a camp project involving 380 junior high pupils, 95% Negroes and 5% Caucasians. Objectives included providing the opportunity for pupils to assume responsibility, develop self-reliance, and thereby increase self-respect; teaching the skills involved in outdoor recreation; teaching…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Black Youth, Camping, Disadvantaged Youth
