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Download full textInstitute for Educational Leadership, 2021
In order to create a greater abundance of effective and affordable pathways for low-income learners, the Institute for Educational Leadership (IEL) created Minds That Move Us (MTMU). MTMU challenges the bright minds of communities around the country to design innovative education and training models that create social equity and economic mobility…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Instructional Leadership, Educational Innovation, Low Income Students
Crane, Jonathan, Ed. – 2000
In recent years, social programs for the poor have lost the support of the American public. This book describes some of the very best programs and documents their benefits, demonstrating that we can, in fact, make substantial progress in the fight against educational failure, family dissolution, violent crime, substance abuse, unemployment, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Children
Children's Defense Fund, Washington, DC. – 2003
In view of the pending reauthorization of Head Start in 2003, this paper presents information on the effectiveness of Head Start, alternatives to Head Start, program funding, performance standards, and other issues germane to its reauthorization. Topics considered in the question-and-answer format of the report are: (1) Head Start benefits for…
Descriptors: Accountability, Agency Cooperation, Disadvantaged Youth, Enrollment
Business Week, 1989
Examines the problem of preparing an educated workforce for the late twentieth century. Discusses the failure of the educational system to meet contemporary demands, collaboration between business and schools, and ways that business can promote educational reform. Briefly describes numerous successful programs. (FMW)
Descriptors: Business Responsibility, Cooperative Programs, Education Work Relationship, Educational Change
Frazier, Gloria G.; Sickles, Robert N. – 1993
As part of the Directory of Innovations Series, this volume provides information about programs and practices for educational improvement and school restructuring. It provides brief overviews of about 150 high school or district-wide programs with descriptions of the following: (1) goals; (2) location; (3) demographics; (4) how it works; (5) how…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Innovation, Educational Objectives, Educational Practices
Connolly, Frances T.; Figgures, Cleo – 1984
A brief description of programs providing school-age care in the Philadelphia School District is provided (the text of a 1984 School Age Child Care Conference presentation). Appended to the speech text is a technical summary of the 1982-83 program evaluation of one such program: the Child Care Program. Descriptive material provided in the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Development, Class Activities, Day Care
