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Ridley, Peg – 1982
Management of the California Demonstration Program in Reading, a project designed to give educationally disadvantaged students at the junior high and middle school level a second chance to learn basic reading and math skills, is described. Material is divided into 18 sections covering program goals, instructional strategies, personnel,…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Classroom Environment, Compensatory Education, Educational Needs
Download full textGaffney, Michael J.; Schember, Daniel M. – 1982
Drawing selectively on data from a study of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) that included questionnaires sent to 2,000 randomly selected local Title I directors, structured interviews and document reviews in 100 representative Title I districts, and indepth studies in 40 specially selected Title I districts, this…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Block Grants, Compensatory Education, Educational Equity (Finance)
Apling, Richard – 1982
Using data from a study of local practices under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), this paper focuses on budget-related decisions in districts that experienced either level funding or significant budget cuts from 1978 to 1982. Following a general discussion of the allocation of Title I funds, the author examines the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Budgeting, Compensatory Education, Curriculum
Sreedhar, M. V. – 1985
Even though enrollment in elementary schools and national literacy rates have increased greatly in India since its independence in 1949, the number of dropouts and illiterate individuals will also continue to increase unless the needs of the socially disadvantaged are identified and met. The majority of the dropouts and the illiterates belong to…
Descriptors: Bias, Caste, Educational Needs, Educationally Disadvantaged
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. Div. of Vocational Education. – 1983
This curriculum guide, one of 15 volumes written for field test use with educationally disadvantaged industrial education students needing additional instruction in the basic skill areas, deals with helping students to develop basic reading and writing skills while studying electronics. Addressed in the individual units of the guide are the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives, Check Lists, Content Area Reading
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. Div. of Vocational Education. – 1983
This curriculum guide, one of 15 volumes written for field test use with educationally disadvantaged industrial education students needing additional instruction in the basic skill areas, deals with helping students develop basic verbal and visual communication skills while studying electronics. Addressed in the individual units of the guide are…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives, Check Lists, Communication Skills
Martel, Laurence D.; Richman, Joel – 1985
The relationship between a standard measure of self-concept and withdrawal from college was studied with students at private New York colleges who were admitted through the Higher Education Opportunity Programs (HEOP). HEOP students are educationally and financially disadvantaged. The objective of the study was to promote policy formation and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Ancillary School Services, Change Strategies, College Attendance
Read, Sherry – 1982
The TRIO/Special Services program at the University of Minnesota's General College (GC) is described, and 1981-1982 program evaluation results are examined. Federally-supported TRIO programs (also including Education Opportunity Centers, Talent Search, and Upward Bound programs) provide support services for disadvantaged college students. The GC's…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Academic Persistence, Ancillary School Services, Career Counseling
Fowler, Clifford F. – 1981
The report examines and documents the part played by certain local and regional committees in the operation of the Priority Country Area Program (PCAP) in South-West and Central Queensland prior to 1980. Two original studies are described: one concerned with the Local Advisory Committees (LACs) in South-West Priority Country Area and the other…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Community Involvement, Cultural Activities, Educationally Disadvantaged
Behrens, Neville; And Others – 1978
Commencing in 1976, a three-phase descriptive study of southern Tasmania's Huon Valley assessed provision of educational services and outcomes of education in terms of opportunities for young people. Sources of information included: review of existing sources; a follow-up study of three groups of area school leavers (1973, 1975, and 1976);…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Access to Education, Community Change, Community Involvement
Purkey, Stewart C.; Smith, Marshall S. – 1982
The authors reviewed research on effective schools, literature on the implementation of educational innovation, and current theories of school organization. A synthesis of findings from this research indicates that differences among schools do have an effect on student achievement. Specifically, it is the school's culture that is responsible for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Environment
Murnane, Richard J. – 1984
This essay reviews research pertaining to the relative merits and drawbacks of expanding family choice in public education. A primary objective is to identify and explore tensions among competing objectives in the design of expanded choice systems. After an introductory section on goals and definitions, the second section explores how more family…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Catholic Schools, Competitive Selection, Compulsory Education
Reynolds, Dorothy F. – 1984
The performance of the Peninsula Academies of Electronics and Computer Technology was assessed for the program's third year of operation in two host schools in the Sequoia Union High School District. Data were collected for approximately 190 Academy students and for a comparison group of non-Academy students. Academies students missed fewer days…
Descriptors: Attendance, Career Education, Comparative Analysis, Computer Science
Lally, J. Ronald; Honig, Alice S. – 1977
This final report of the Family Development Research Program contains a description of the program's comprehensive family service approach to promoting child development and the longitudinal findings on program effectiveness. The program offered comprehensive services to 108 families which were low in both income and education. Services included:…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Development, Child Development Centers, Delivery Systems
Perryman, Bruce C.; Flores, Thomas R. – 1975
This document contains two of the three supplements which accompany chapter 1 of "Mountain-Plains Handbook: The Design and Operation of a Residential, Family Oriented Career Education Model" (CE 014 630). The first supplement contained in this document includes the following materials: articles of incorporation and bylaws; statement of…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrator Guides, Board of Education Policy, Career Education
