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PDF pending restorationNational Alliance of Business, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1986
Intended for use by local persons responsible for planning, managing, and evaluating Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) programs, this guide draws on the experiences that Private Industry Councils, Service Delivery Areas (SDAs), and local program operators have had providing tryout employment. (Tryout employment programs provide entry-level work…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Potential, Entry Workers, Job Skills
Download full textCongressional Caucus for Women's Issues, Washington, DC. Women's Research and Education Inst. – 1986
This publication presents proceedings of a conference on barriers to health care experienced by women and minorities in the United States. Welcoming remarks were offered by Representative Charles B. Rangel. Representatives Patricia Schroeder (Congressional Caucus on Women's Issues), Louis Stokes (Congressional Black Caucus), and Robert Garcia…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Females, Government Role, Health Care Costs
Christner, Catherine A. – 1987
Evaluation findings on the Education Consolidation Improvement Act Chapter 1 and Chapter 1 Migrant Programs of the Austin (Texas) Independent School District (AISD) are reported. Included in the text of the report are: program descriptions; reading component descriptions; program impact on student achievement, Texas Educational Assessment of…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Compensatory Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Assessment
Strand, Alex – 1980
In 1980, a project was conducted in Carteret County to: (1) establish linkages among human service delivery agencies, educational institutions, and employment and training programs; (2) use these linkages to facilitate the identification of disadvantaged and handicapped individuals who could benefit from vocational training; and (3) contact area…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Colleges, Community Coordination, Cooperative Programs
Peterson, James L. – 1985
The purpose of this report is to review sources of information that the Department of Education may want to draw on in its evaluation of the compensatory education program. Focus is placed primarily on information that can be used to describe children in poverty, to assess changes in the size and composition of this population, and to relate…
Descriptors: Children, Compensatory Education, Databases, Economic Factors
Applied Management Sciences, Inc., Silver Spring, MD. – 1979
The nature and extent of corrections made to their records by zero/low income applicants to the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant (BEOG) program was investigated. Behaviors of zero/low income applicants and the total pool of applicants were also compared. It was found that zero/low income applicants and all applicants who were rejected displayed…
Descriptors: College Students, Disclosure, Economically Disadvantaged, Eligibility
Boothby, Paula R.; Lacoste, Ronald J. – 1977
In the present decade, the United States has reaffirmed its commitment to the maximum development of all children. This commitment includes each of the estimated 2.5 million gifted children in the country. As part of this commitment, the Office of Education has formulated a new and broadened definition of giftedness. However, even with a broadened…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Cognitive Style, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged
Dimond, Paul R. – 1979
As part of a nine-volume, six-state study of the impact of school finance reform on minorities and the poor, this report describes the history of court litigation concerning finance reform. The report's first part traces school finance reform from roughly 1900 through 1971 and summarizes parallel reform efforts by racial and ethnic minorities and…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Change
Pate, Wayne, Ed. – 1980
These papers, prepared by graduate students at Texas Woman's University as part of an internship program, are presented in three sections: (1) overview and administration of federal programs; (2) Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act; and (3) some procedural considerations in the development of federal programs. The specific topics…
Descriptors: Children, Disabilities, Economically Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education
McNeil, Judy T.; And Others – 1981
The overall purpose of the national Head Start evaluation is to assess the impact, on the children and parents being served, of: (1) the educational services component of Head Start, and (2) a new demonstration program within Head Start, Basic Educational Skills. The evaluation deals with a total of 65 Head Start programs and their families. This…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Data Collection, Disadvantaged Youth
Cahill, Janet – 1976
The differential effectiveness of four compensatory education programs for economically disadvantaged children was assessed. Ninety-two children were assigned to one of the following remedial approaches: a child focused school based, a child focused home based, a mother-child home based, a mother only home based. A no treatment control group was…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Conventional Instruction, Economically Disadvantaged, Elementary Education
James, Bill – 1979
This report examines individualized instructional approaches to teaching, reviews of the literature in that field with specific reference to Upward Bound programs, and reports on a research study which investigated the relationship between an Activity Based Curriculum (ABC) and the academic performance of economically disadvantaged high school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Preparation, Compensatory Education, Curriculum Design
Daugherty, James C., Ed. – 1980
The findings from seven studies on the effects of the 1974-75 economic recession on the health care of low socioeconomic status individuals are summarized. The studies include: (1) an evaluation of the impact of adverse economic conditions on the health status of the poor; (2) the effects of unemployment and inflation on the utilization of…
Descriptors: Business Cycles, Economic Climate, Economically Disadvantaged, Financial Support
TUCKER, JAMES F. – 1966
THE NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH CORPS (NYC), A PART OF THE WORK-TRAINING PROGRAM AUTHORIZED BY THE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY ACT OF 1964, FIRST ENROLLED YOUTH DURING THE LATTER PART OF DECEMBER 1964. THIS REPORT COMPARES SOME OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE FIRST 50,000 ENROLLEES AND THEIR HOUSEHOLDS TO THE GENERAL CATEGORY OF POVERTY-STRICKEN HOUSEHOLDS…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Economically Disadvantaged, Federal Programs, High School Students
Zee, Paul; DeLeon, Marina – 1979
Preschool children from poor families in a black Memphis community, who had shown considerable nutritional progress since a food program was introduced in 1969, lost some of these gains during the 1974-1976 recession. These losses can be attributed to inflation and the high rate of unemployment among the blacks in this community. The unfavorable…
Descriptors: Blacks, Breakfast Programs, Economically Disadvantaged, Federal Programs
