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Leland, L. – 1975
This document contains one of twenty-two curriculum units developed by the Mountain-Plains Career Education Model IV, a residential, family-based education program developed to improve the economic potential and lifestyle of selected student families in a six-state area. A part of the family core curriculum, this unit on home management includes…
Descriptors: Career Education, Clothing, Core Curriculum, Demonstration Programs
Portland Public Schools, OR. Area III Office. – 1974
Developed by the total staff at Vocational Village (Portland, Oregon), this handbook presents the following: (1) information about Vocational Village, a unique alternative high school which offers a program dedicated to helping economically and educationally disadvantaged youth between the ages of fourteen and twenty-one become independent,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Innovation, Educationally Disadvantaged
Agency for International Development (Dept. of State), Washington, DC. – 1979
Morocco's three non-formal educational programs for "the hard core poor female adolescent school drop-out" differ in the kind and effectiveness of training offered. The Foyers Feminins program, although it claims to emphasize crafts and literacy, is in fact, definitely geared towards the teaching of handicrafts. The Ouvroir Centers…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Education, Adults, Comparative Analysis
Download full textRowh, Mark C. – 1980
Needs of off-campus students in Southern West Virginia, and specifically students enrolled at Bluefield State College, are considered. The computer college has several off-campus locations, including one 60 miles away, and it serves a population that tends to have low educational attainment levels. One environmental factor that influences student…
Descriptors: College Students, Commuter Colleges, Commuting Students, Economically Disadvantaged
Youth Unemployment: The Outlook and Some Policy Strategies. Budget Issue Paper for Fiscal Year 1979.
Iden, George; And Others – 1978
Nearly one-half of all unemployed persons in the U.S. today are between the ages of sixteen and twenty-four even though that age group accounts for only one-fourth of the total labor force. Unemployment among sixteen- to nineteen-year-olds is currently more than fifteen percent, and among twenty- to twenty-four-year-olds it exceeds ten percent.…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Demography, Educationally Disadvantaged, Employment Opportunities
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
Nash, Charles R. – 1978
The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia has established a policy that a graduate of a Georgia high school should be given the opportunity to attempt a college education in the University System. The Special Studies Program was organized to facilitate this ideal. The fundamental objectives of the program are to: (1) provide greater…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Basic Skills
Association of Coll. and Research Libraries, Chicago, IL. Junior Coll. Libraries Section. – 1978
This assessment package was designed to facilitate the identification and appraisal of the learning resources and services that are provided to handicapped and other disadvantaged students at two-year colleges. The instrument helps evaluate services available to the following student populations: blind and partially sighted students; deaf and…
Descriptors: Blindness, Check Lists, Community Colleges, Deafness
Portland Community Coll., OR. – 1978
Three Oregon community colleges collaborated to develop a model program to meet the learning needs of educationally disadvantaged students. The model consists of several Outcome Objectives, or goals for the program. The discussion of each objective includes background information relevant to the specific goal and a description of the methods used…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Compensatory Education, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Testing
Lewis, L. L.; And Others – 1978
A student and school staff needs assessment was conducted to determine the career education needs of South Carolina students in the elementary, middle/junior high schools, and senior high schools. The special needs of handicapped and other educationally disadvantaged students were also considered. The needs assessment procedure was structured on…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Career Awareness, Career Education, Decision Making Skills
Eppley, George, Ed. – 1979
A rationale is presented for the establishment of a comprehensive skills center designed to provide low-cost, vocational training that would enable the unskilled and unemployed population of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, to fill area manpower needs. The report first compares the present composition of the county work force with the manpower needs of…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, College Role, Community Colleges, Economically Disadvantaged
Streit, Fred; Spack, Eliot G. – 1979
The following Title I and Impact Aid programs carried out in Bronx, New York's Community School District 10 are evaluated in this report: (1) a reading program providing remedial instruction to students in grades K-9; (2) a non public school component providing remedial reading and mathematics instruction to eligible students in grades 1-8 at…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Attitudes, Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged
Ploetz, Greta N. – 1977
Educationally, economically, or psychologically disadvantaged women suffer from even more social and economic injustices than do other women. Although a woman's ability to provide for herself rises with her educational level, approximately half of all American women lack a high school diploma. Family relationships, religious tradition, school…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Cultural Differences, Demography
DELAVAN, FRANK E.; ENGLAND, MORRISON C. – 1966
THE SACRAMENTO CITY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT DEVELOPED THREE PROJECTS UNDER THE TITLE "PROGRAMS AND SERVICES FOR THE EDUCATIONALLY DEPRIVED" WHICH WERE FUNDED UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT OF 1965 AND THE CALIFORNIA MCATEER ACT OF 1965. IMPLEMENTED DURING THE SPRING SEMESTER, 1966, THESE THREE PROJECTS WERE (1)…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Audiovisual Centers, Class Average, Compensatory Education
MACK, LYNN; AND OTHERS – 1967
AS A CONTINUATION OF A 1966 PROJECT, THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY EXTENSION ASSOCIATION (NUEA), UNDER A GRANT FROM THE U.S. OFFICE OF EDUCATION (USOE), CONDUCTED 20 REGIONAL ADULT BASIC EDUCATION TRAINING INSTITUTES IN THE SUMMER OF 1967. THREE EDUCATIONAL EXPERIMENTS WERE CARRIED OVER--AN ACCELERATED NATIONAL PROGRAM FOR PREPARATION OF TEACHERS FOR…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Educational Finance, Educational Technology, Educationally Disadvantaged
