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Peer reviewedHoran, Mary D.; And Others – Education and Urban Society, 1980
The New York State Experimental Prekindergarten Program, which operates in 52 school districts, is designed to reduce potential educational deficits of economically disadvantaged children. This article reports on the program's effects on cognitive functioning of children in their kindergarten years and discusses implications for educational…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged
Bell, Nathan – 1986
About 60 percent of Binghamton's pupil population come from low income families; close to 1,000 pupils are provided remediation under Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act. This program provides educationally and economically needy people with ways to succeed. The program's attributes for success are as follow: (1) clear…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedGriffin, Donald J. – Business Education Forum, 1979
Describes an experimental mass lecture presentation method at Cayuga County Community College, Auburn, New York, to prepare accounting students for the type of instruction in four-year institutions. Although some students chose not to enroll in the mass lecture accounting section, those who participated made better progress and were favorable…
Descriptors: Accounting, Business Education, Community Colleges, Course Organization
Eastwood, Kenneth W. – 1991
In 1984 the State of New York mandated participation in the Comprehensive School Improvement Program (CSIP) for elementary schools that ranked in the bottom 9 percent on statewide student competency exams. To discern the overall effectiveness of the program and identify why it appeared to succeed in some schools and fail in others, the changes in…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Improvement, Effective Schools Research, Elementary Education
Malanowski, Rose M.; And Others – 1986
This paper presents a case study of the development of the Professional Analysis Team (PAT) program structured after the Quality Circle program used in industry. Modifications and innovations of the Quality Circle program are examined, and essential characteristics are outlined. The PAT program, designed to enable education professionals to use…
Descriptors: Brainstorming, Case Studies, Communication Problems, Convergent Thinking
Download full textFord, Edmund A. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1961
The latest available statistics for 1958-59 indicate there were 8,084 small schools and that they had enrolled in them 1,650,000 pupils. It is a matter of conjecture how much these figures will be reduced in the next 10 years, but there is considerable doubt that the reduction will be a truly significant one. In any event the current figures are…
Descriptors: Educational History, Rural Schools, High Schools, Small Schools
