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Faratro, Tommasina – Institute for Justice and Opportunity, 2020
This report details the scope of [City University of New York's] CUNY's policies and programs for students impacted by the criminal legal system and explores opportunities for CUNY to better support those students. As an engine for upward social mobility, CUNY is well positioned to promote the educational and professional advancement of students…
Descriptors: Legal Problems, Court Litigation, College Students, Higher Education
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Laut, Jeffrey; Bartolini, Tiziana; Porfiri, Maurizio – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2015
Attracting K-12 students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is viewed as a critical element for benefiting both the economy and society. This paper describes an outreach program, conducted in a Brooklyn, New York, USA, public middle school, aimed at educating students in mechatronics, biology, and…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, STEM Education, Student Interests, Science Interests
Lodato, Francis J. – 1975
Presented is an evaluation of a program serving 373 disadvantaged mentally retarded children in New York City to provide services in the areas of health, physical and emotional, education, social and recreational needs. Reported are findings indicating that 94% of the Ss had 60% of or more of their unmet needs satisfied and that 65% of the Ss had…
Descriptors: Community Services, Delivery Systems, Disadvantaged Youth, Exceptional Child Research
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Freed, Benjamin; Kirstein, Mark – Optometric Education, 1995
A mobile eye care service is offered to homebound elderly residents of New York City (New York) by the State University of New York's College of Optometry. Fourth-year students are required to participate, learning techniques with hand-held equipment to examine a population with a high rate of ocular disease who might otherwise not receive…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Clinical Experience, Field Experience Programs, Higher Education
Rubin, Barbara – Aging and Work: A Journal on Age, Work and Retirement, 1978
Instead of increasing institutionalization of the elderly, the author suggests increasing life enhancing programs with preventive health care. She discusses various health and social services in New York City, including outreach projects, day care programs for the elderly, and the value of senior center-hospital cooperative services. (MF)
Descriptors: Adult Day Care, Community Health Services, Health Needs, Health Programs
Farber, Anne; Rogler, Lloyd H. – 1981
Unitas, a therapeutic community outreach program serving Hispanic and black children in the South Bronx, New York, is described in this ethnographic study. The first chapter of this monograph describes the organizational structure of Unitas including the ordering of the program's activities and the composition of the staff, teenage workers, and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Black Youth, Children, Elementary Secondary Education