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Download full textMann, Dale – 1985
The conference summarized here brought together participants from 12 public school districts and 34 observers from government agencies, foundations and community organizations. The attendees addressed the concern that the reform agenda of American public schooling is insufficiently sensitive to needy children who have dropped out of school or who…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Conferences, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Characteristics
Vaughan, David – 1979
New Mexico is discussed in this fifth volume of a nine-volume, six-state study of the impact of school finance reform on minorities and the poor. The report gives a demographic summary of the state and presents the history of its school financing efforts from 1847 to the present, with special emphasis on the 1974 finance reform law. To assess the…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education, Equalization Aid
Montoya, Renee Marie; Whiteneck, Gale G. – 1979
As volume six of a nine-volume, six-state study of the impact of school finance reform on minorities and the poor, this report examines the history, status, and effects of finance reforms in Colorado. The authors chronicle Colorado's school financing methods since 1936 and discuss the Colorado School Finance Act of 1973. They then describe…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education, Equalization Aid
Hymes, Dell H.; And Others – 1981
Student acquisition of reading and language arts skills was monitored ethnographically in a study of several schools in a largely black setting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Fundamental to this extensive study was the development and maintenance of cooperative relationships with the urban schools being investigated. The ethnographic monitoring…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Black Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Research
Syracuse Research Corp., Syracuse, NY. – 1981
At a June, 1981, meeting, representatives of Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) organizations and vocational education organizations arrived at the following conclusions regarding the issues in collaboration that warrant attention in the reauthorization process of the CETA and the Vocational Education Act: (1) the coincidence of…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Cooperative Planning, Cooperative Programs, Coordination
Smurthwaite, Ann; And Others – 1977
Examined is the success of Monash's Early Leavers' Scheme in terms of the performance, characteristics, and experience of successful applicants, and the manner in which the scheme has operated. The first section of the report provides background information on the establishment of the Scheme (to provide a modification to entry requirements for…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission Criteria, College Admission, College Applicants
Wright, Mary J. – 1979
This followup study, one of a series of documents assessing the University of Western Ontario Preschool Project, examines the long range effects of the Project on the performance of children from low income families after entering the public schools. This study summarizes data accumulated by the end of the academic year 1977-78 and describes…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary School Students
Bonnet, Deborah G.; And Others – 1978
A study was conducted of Indiana's Summer Programs for the Education and Development of Youth (SPEDY) to describe the program themselves and to study the programs' effect on participants' short-term career education attitudes, knowledge, and skills. SPEDY is a training for public-sector work program operated each summer for about ten weeks for…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Career Planning, Disadvantaged Youth
Kenkel, William F. – 1980
A longitudinal study conducted in six southern states dealt with four population categories (poor youth, rural youth, black youth, and females) frequently neglected in status aspiration, career goal, and life plans research. The term "life plans" included educational and occupational aspirations as well as expectations of age at…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Aspiration, Child Rearing
Fishbein, Ronald L.; Wilmer, Mary Ann – 1979
The differences between Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I program evaluation and minimum competency testing (MCT) are compared. Title I programs are characterized as follows: the objective is to supplement school experiences for economically educational programs emphasize reading and mathematics; supplementary instruction is provided by…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Differences
Belkin, Allen; Dries, Cindy – 1978
The goals of the Oswego County (New York) Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) Youth Employment and Training Program (YETP) was to improve job-readiness posture and self-concept of unemployed youth and in-school youth. Two types of classroom training supported the major learning activity, which was work experience. These activities…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attitude Measures, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged
FOX, DAVID J.; SCHWARZ, PEGGY M. – 1967
THIS REPORT IS AN EVALUATION OF A PROGRAM WHICH PAIRED STUDENTS FROM TWO "SLOW" SECOND-GRADE CLASSES IN A HARLEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WITH STUDENTS IN TWO HIGH ACHIEVEMENT FIFTH-GRADE CLASSES. THESE PUPILS LUNCHED TOGETHER WEEKLY AND PLAYED TOGETHER AFTERWARD. ONCE A WEEK THEY MET FOR DIRECTED CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES. ALSO THEY WENT ON SCHOOL…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Attendance, Control Groups
ROBY, WALLACE – 1966
THIS EVALUATION BY THE CONNECTICUT DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION OF THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT TITLE I PROJECTS CAUTIONS ABOUT MAKING GENERALIZATIONS ABOUT THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PROJECTS WHICH HAVE BEEN IN OPERATION FOR ONLY A BRIEF PERIOD. THE REPORT NOTES, HOWEVER, THAT SUCH AN EVALUATION CAN BE USEFUL IN ESTABLISHING BASELINE DATA AND…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Basic Skills, Community Action, Compensatory Education
MCCABE, ALICE R.; AND OTHERS – 1967
REPORTED IS AN INTENSIVE 2-YEAR DEMONSTRATION PROJECT CONDUCTED IN EAST HARLEM BY NEW YORK'S COMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY TO EXAMINE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF INTELLECTUALLY SUPERIOR DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES, AND TO TEST THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A DEMONSTRATION SERVICE PROGRAM EMPLOYING GROUP METHODS IN ENCOURAGING THE ACADEMIC AND SOCIAL…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academically Gifted, Blacks, Control Groups
ROBY, WALLACE – 1967
THIS REPORT SUMMARIZES EVALUATION OF PROGRAMS FOR DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN AND YOUTH FUNDED UNDER CONNECTICUT PUBLIC ACT 523 IN SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN TOWNS NOT SERVED BY TITLE I OF THE 1965 ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT. IN GENERAL, THE PROGRAMS ATTEMPTED TO IMPROVE THE STUDENTS' READING, LANGUAGE ARTS, AND BASIC SKILLS AND TO CHANGE THEIR…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Ancillary Services, Attitude Change, Basic Skills
