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California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1992
This paper describes six strategies for California teachers to consider in teaching the state's history-social science curriculum to educationally disadvantaged students. The six strategies are: (1) enriching history through literature; (2) connecting history with other learnings; (3) connecting history to personal experience; (4) adapting to…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Curriculum Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Secondary Education
Fanshel, David; And Others – 1992
This book reports on a study of the urban poor in New York City focusing on the effectiveness of a model of service for this population. The project studied 160 families who were clients of the Lower East Side Family Union, an agency that aims to prevent foster care placement and to help clients mobilize their own coping capacities and to make…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Blacks, Chinese Americans, Client Characteristics (Human Services)
Driessen, Geert, Ed.; Jungbluth, Paul, Ed. – 1994
This collection presents a cross section of research into the theme of equal opportunities in education in the Netherlands. The majority of articles are on the Dutch situation, which resembles that of other countries in many respects. Contributions include: (1) "Educational Inequality Research in the Netherlands. Conditions, Constraints and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
Download full textNew York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Research, Evaluation, and Assessment. – 1993
This report describes the development, introduction, and evaluation of the SuperStart comprehensive prekindergarten program adopted by the New York City Public Schools in 1990. By 1991, SuperStart offered 299 classes in 188 schools, providing a developmentally appropriate learning environment to foster cognitive, social, emotional, and physical…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Curriculum Evaluation, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Disadvantaged Youth
Mizell, M. Hayes; And Others – 1994
This paper reviews the evolution of the Program for Disadvantaged Youth since 1988, describes its accomplishments and lessons learned, and suggests new directions for the Program to build on its experiences. The Program for Disadvantaged Youth rejects many of the stereotypes about the needs and abilities of young adolescents, many of which are the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administration, Adolescents, Disadvantaged Youth
Morse, Ann – 1993
Realities of a multilingual, multiethnic workforce and the services available in the current employment and training system are discussed in this report, which outlines the main Federal programs that provide employment and training for the foreign-born. Also highlighted are issues raised by participants in the Immigrant Policy Project's regional…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Employment, Ethnic Groups, Federal Programs
Commission on Chapter 1, Baltimore, MD. – 1992
This document presents the following eight-component framework of the Commission on Chapter 1 for restructuring the Chapter 1 program: (1) have states set clear, high standards for all students; (2) devise new systems for schools to assess progress toward standards; (3) inform parents about how well their children are progressing toward standards…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Advisory Committees, Agency Role, Children
Westat, Inc., Rockville, MD. – 1994
This report summarizes the 1991-92 State Performance Reports for the Chapter 1 Local Education Agency (LEA) program and the Chapter 1 State Agency Neglected or Delinquent Program. As the largest single investment in elementary and secondary education by the Federal government, Chapter 1 provides funding to about 90 percent of school districts…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Compensatory Education
Quin Rivers Agency for Community Action, Inc., Providence Forge, VA. – 1989
This project, conducted under the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act, Public Law 98-24, provided outreach to 49 Charles City County (Virginia) economically and educationally disadvantaged handicapped youth, aged 16 through 21. Various services were provided to facilitate their entrance into vocational education, employment, or other…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Guidance, Disabilities, Disadvantaged Youth
Success for All: Multi-Year Effects of a Schoolwide Elementary Restructuring Program. Report No. 18.
Madden, Nancy A.; And Others – 1991
This document presents the effects of variations of a schoolwide restructuring program, Success for All, on student reading achievement and other outcomes in elementary schools serving large numbers of disadvantaged students. Success for All includes the following elements: (1) research-based preschool and kindergarten programs; (2) beginning and…
Descriptors: Children, Comparative Analysis, Disadvantaged Youth, Educationally Disadvantaged
Means, Barbara, Ed.; Knapp, Michael S., Ed. – 1991
This document comprises six papers that discuss teaching advanced skills to educationally disadvantaged students. An introductory paper, "Models for Teaching Advanced Skills to Educationally Disadvantaged Children" (B. Means and M. S. Knapp), synthesizes the themes that characterize the collection of papers as a whole, and discusses general issues…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Children, Compensatory Education, Curriculum Development
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1991
This document comprises a bill introduced in the U.S. Senate to make demonstration grants to eligible entities to improve the educational performance of at-risk students. The proposed legislation, which, if enacted, is to be called the "Link-up for Learning Demonstration Grant Act," is also intended to foster planning, coordination, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Compensatory Education, Demonstration Programs
California State Dept. of Education. Sacramento. Office of Special Programs. – 1990
Contributions of participants in a three-day invitational symposium for representatives of the 21 California high schools which were most successful in sending Black and Hispanic students to the University of California and the California State University are compiled in this document. The publication addresses two major goals of the California…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Academic Education, Academic Persistence, Accountability
Educational Planning and Research, Boston, MA. – 1978
The Title I Early Childhood Component of Boston's Elementary Enrichment Program (1977-78) was intended to provide children (including the hearing impaired) with enriched educational experiences that would contribute to socialization skills and general readiness for school and later life experiences. The Component was also intended to provide…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education, Emotional Development
Peterson, Charlene M.; And Others – 1987
From September through November 1986, the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) conducted a follow-up survey of Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) 8% program participants in the 1985-86 school year. The DPI is responsible for administering half of the JTPA 8% Education Coordination and Grants for economically disadvantaged youth, ages…
Descriptors: Career Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
