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Delgado Community Coll., New Orleans, LA. – 1989
Recognizing the need for better preparation of high school students in mathematics, science, and technology, Delgado Community College and the Orleans Parish School System entered into an agreement for the provision of a summer enrichment program for minority students in grades 7 through 9 who had exhibited average or above average abilities in…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Community Colleges, Enrichment Activities, Junior High School Students
Beck, Clark E. – 1989
The College of Engineering and Computer Science at Wright State University implemented its first summer pre-engineering program in 1988 to increase the number of minority students from the area who graduate from high school with sufficient interest and academic preparation to successfully pursue engineering or some other science- or…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, College Bound Students, College Preparation, College School Cooperation
Download full textBerney, Tomi D.; Simon, Monique S. – 1990
The 1989 Summer Bilingual Program, funded for its third year by tax levy, served 2,365 limited-English-proficient high school students at 14 sites in Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens. Designed for the substantial number of students who are over-age for their grade, the program offered the English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) and bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, English (Second Language), Graduation Requirements, High School Students
Stea, David – 1988
During the 2.5 years the project was in operation, the International Center for Culture and Environment (Santa Fe, New Mexico) provided courses concerned with aspects of intercultural communication related to environmental design and planning to students and practitioners from 15 U.S. states and 15 foreign countries. Courses were provided in three…
Descriptors: Architecture, Building Design, Community Involvement, Course Content
Stone, Deborah – 1990
The Strive Toward Excellence Program (STEP) of the University of Akron (Ohio) is a pre-college preparatory program designed to encourage, motivate, and prepare minority and economically disadvantaged students to acquire a strong secondary education and to attend and successfully complete college. Students are selected while enrolled in the sixth…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, College Preparation, Developmental Studies Programs, Economically Disadvantaged
Nguyen, Thuha; And Others – 1987
This is the first of two volumes of a report summarizing participation and achievement information from the 1984-85 school year of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act (ECIA) Chapter 1 Migrant Education Program. This volume presents participation information provided by state educational agencies. This school year was the first for…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment, Migrant Children, Migrant Education
Lamb, Donald K.; Roeber, Jane A., Ed. – 1990
"Readlicious: Carry-outs Available" is a theme that can be adapted to a variety of emphases since libraries are filled with materials relating to food in many ways, and library collections feed hungry minds and imaginations in countless fashions. This manual is a smorgasbord of planning ideas contributed by many Wisconsin librarians, and…
Descriptors: Childrens Games, Community Involvement, Creative Activities, Food
Opuni, Kwame A.; And Others – 1990
The 1990 Beating the Odds (BTO) Summer School was an intensive instructional, counseling, and guidance program sponsored by the Houston (Texas) Independent School District for a group of at-risk students in grades 5-9. The program was designed to provide a supportive and nurturing learning environment in which the academic and sociopsychological…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrichment Activities
Annis, Linda F. – 1987
A study skills course offered through Project Start, a summer program for high-risk incoming college freshmen at Ball State University, Indiana, is described. While primarily designed for students who were denied regular admission because of low high-school rank and low Scholastic Aptitude Test scores, the program also allows previously…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, High Risk Students, Higher Education, Learning Motivation
Black, Janet K.; And Others – 1984
A southwestern university sponsored a two-week, half-day summer institute designed to help teachers become aware of recent writing research and implement writing within their classrooms based on the research findings. During the first week, teachers were encouraged to pay more attention to the communication perspective with less attention on…
Descriptors: Coherence, Higher Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Summer Programs
Youth Programs: Practical Lessons from Research and Program Experience, 1988
This issue features articles on basic skills enrichment for summer job programs and on the recent revisions to the Job Training Partnership Act's (JTPA's) performance standards system. "Basic Skills and Summer Enrichment: An Interview with Gordon Berlin" focuses on the summer enrichment movement in general and the Summer Training and…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Education, Disadvantaged, Employment Potential
Austin Independent School District, TX. Office of Research and Evaluation. – 1983
The Austin (TX) Independent School District presents its second report to the Texas Education Agency concerning the Summer School Pilot 1983. It contains a final report summary, a teacher checklist, and an observation followup. The report summary includes the following major findings: (1) retainees who attended summer school and those who did not…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Check Lists, Classroom Observation Techniques, Elementary Education
Garcia, Marilyn; Grady, Karen – 1984
A high intensity language training (HILT) summer program in English as a second language and Spanish as a second language offered to second through eighth grade students in the North Monterey County Unified School District (California) during the summers of 1982 and 1983 is described. The program funding, design, admission, development, and…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, English (Second Language), Federal Aid, FLES
Austin Independent School District, TX. Office of Research and Evaluation. – 1982
This technical report documents staff and parent reactions to the 1982 Austin (TX) Independent School District summer school for retainees, provides data on fall teachers' assessment of retainee skills, and describes the nature of the long-term comparison group. A summary of this information plus appendices detailing the purpose, procedures, and…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Educational Assessment, Elementary Education, Grade Repetition
Gardiol, Rita – 1989
An intensive summer training course in Mandarin Chinese designed to help currently employed language teachers introduce exploratory Mandarin Chinese courses to their schools is described. Training current staff eliminated three common barriers to exploratory program introduction: needs for (1) additional teaching staff; (2) additional funds; and…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Instructional Materials, Introductory Courses, Language Teachers
