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Villavicencio, Adriana; Klevan, Sarah; Guidry, Brandon; Wulach, Suzanne – Research Alliance for New York City Schools, 2014
In 2011, the New York City Mayor's Office, the Open Society Foundations, Bloomberg Philanthropies, and over 20 local agencies launched the Young Men's Initiative (YMI), a citywide effort to improve outcomes for Black and Latino young men in the areas of education, health, employment, and criminal justice. YMI is one of the single largest…
Descriptors: African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Males, Racial Differences
Villavicencio, Adriana; Klevan, Sarah; Guidry, Brandon; Wulach, Suzanne – Research Alliance for New York City Schools, 2014
This appendix describes the data collection and analytic processes used to develop the findings in the report "Promising Opportunities for Black and Latino Young Men." A central challenge was creating an analytic framework that could be uniformly applied to all schools, despite the individualized nature of their Expanded Success…
Descriptors: African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Males, Racial Differences
Villavicencio, Adriana; Klevan, Sarah; Guidry, Brandon; Wulach, Suzanne – Research Alliance for New York City Schools, 2014
In 2011, the New York City Mayor's Office, the Open Society Foundations, Bloomberg Philanthropies, and over 20 local agencies launched the Young Men's Initiative (YMI), a citywide effort to improve outcomes for Black and Latino young men in the areas of education, health, employment, and criminal justice. YMI is one of the single largest…
Descriptors: African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Males, Racial Differences
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St. John, Edward P.; Masten, Charles L. – Journal of Student Financial Aid, 1990
It is argued that public investment in student financial aid should be evaluated based on tax revenue returns resulting from the expenditure. A model for estimating tax revenue returns from gains in educational attainment attributable to student aid is developed, and impact of aid on access and persistence is examined. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Access to Education, Economic Impact, Federal Programs
Jackson, Shirley A. – 1991
It is noted that the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and libraries have a mutual mission: the collection and dissemination of information in formats that are useful to the information needs of the public. This report discusses the NCES' mission statement in these terms and describes its broad-based data gathering program, which…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Data Collection, Databases, Elementary Secondary Education