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Download full textTurner, Jeannine – 1996
The City of Austin (Texas) provided funds for a supplementary educational activity to involve at-risk minority high school students in water quality issues. The program encourages at-risk students to remain in school by providing an interesting and authentic activity to use in the development of academic skills. Program activities included testing…
Descriptors: Databases, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Programs, Financial Support
Turner, Jeannine – 1994
The City of Austin (Texas) provided funds for a supplementary educational activity to involve at-risk minority high school students in water quality issues. The program attempts to provide an interesting and authentic activity that also develops academic skills. Principal activities were testing river water for pollutants and the tutoring of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, High Risk Students, High School Students, High Schools
QED: Final Report on the NSF Grant to the Science Academy of Austin, 1994. Publication Number 94.04.
Turner, Jeannine – 1996
The Science Academy of Austin, part of the Austin Independent School District (Texas), was given a 4-year National Science Foundation (NSF) grant beginning in 1990-91 to link public and private sectors to create a "thinking curriculum." This evaluation report covers the fourth, and last, year of the grant's implementation. The new…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education, Financial Support
