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Download full textWotherspoon, Terry; Schissel, Bernard – 2000
This discussion paper examines discourses, studies, and practices associated with designating certain children and youth as "at-risk learners." Focusing primarily on children and youth in Canada, the paper contends that appropriate and effective responses to the problems of at-risk learners require a new approach that includes a better…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Cultural Differences, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedMorrison, James L. – Research in Higher Education, 1973
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Admission Criteria, Community Colleges, Disadvantaged Youth
Federal Aid Planner, 1973
By tapping the experiences of successful adult education programs, school districts can set up and operate an adult program of educational offerings that can be of practical value to the educationally disadvantaged. (Author)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Demonstration Programs, Educationally Disadvantaged, Federal Aid
Peer reviewedRitterband, Paul – Sociology of Education, 1973
With the growth of expenditure on education increasing more rapidly than available local tax resources, school will have to account for both input and output. This article discusses the pressures which arise if school is policy is excluded from public scrutiny and approval, which results in wasteful programs. (Author/JB)
Descriptors: Accountability, Board of Education Policy, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Policy
Peer reviewedCordasco, Francesco – Journal of Negro Education, 1973
With reference to the period between 1880-1920 this paper presents an overview of the American school in form and function as it presented itself to the immigrant child, and the response of the American school to the immigrant child. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Acculturation, Educational Change, Educational History, Educationally Disadvantaged
Peer reviewedSomervill, Mary Ann; Jacobs, John F. – Negro Educational Review, 1972
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, Dialect Studies, Educationally Disadvantaged
Sourian, Peter – Nation, 1973
Discusses the problems and progress of Open Admissions at City University of New York. (DM)
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, College Admission, Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged
Resnik, Henry S. – Saturday Review (New York 1952), 1972
A husband-wife teaching team defies the rules of failure by giving their students a chance to fight the system. (Editor)
Descriptors: Black Youth, Educational Environment, Educational Innovation, Educationally Disadvantaged
Murphy, Betty – Opportunity, 1972
Description of the Public Service Careers (PSC) program at Harvard Extension School for educationally disadvantaged adults. (DM)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Career Ladders, Career Opportunities
Oakland, Thomas – J Negro Educ, 1970
Relates two strategies of compensatory education to the origins of educational deficits. (JM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Environment
Konopnicki, Jan – Int Rev Educ, 1969
The reasons for a child's failure to learn in school are complex and stem from various sources--broken homes, parental indifference, and irresponsible parental behavior. (CK)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Educational Problems, Educationally Disadvantaged
Peer reviewedZdep, Stanley M. – Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Educationally Disadvantaged
Berke, Joel S. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1971
Describes the failure to raise adequate school revenues through equitable means and the inability to allocate resources in an effective and equitable manner. (Author)
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Finance, Educationally Disadvantaged, Equal Education
Peer reviewedJohnson, Sabina Thorne – College English, 1972
Describes a remedial English program at the University of California, Berkeley. (RY)
Descriptors: Course Content, Diagnostic Teaching, Educationally Disadvantaged, English Education
Young, Whitney M., Jr. – Kappa Delta Pi Rec, 1970
Speech presented at the 27th Biennial Kappa Delta Pi Convention. (EJS)
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Objectives, Educationally Disadvantaged
