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Download full textOffice of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC. Office of Planning, Budgeting, and Evaluation. – 1977
This study has two major purposes: 1)to report on the numbers of economically and or educationally disadvantaged elementary school students who do and do not receive compensatory services under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, and 2)to report on the benefits students derive from such services during more than one school year.…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Education
Brimer, M. A. – 1971
The stated purpose of this paper is to review some of the critical issues that arise in the planning and conduct of the evaluation of action programmes amongst the socially and educationally disadvantaged, and to suggest the means that might be adopted to overcome the inherent difficulties. The discussion first focuses on the characteristics of…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Programs, Educationally Disadvantaged
McIntyre, Catherine; And Others – 1977
An evaluation was conducted of the effectiveness of the 12 LULAC [League of United Latin American Citizens] National Education Service Centers, Inc. (LNESC), which assist Hispanic and other educationally deprived students in pursuing post-secondary education. The evaluation focused on three LNESC objectives: (1) to increase the number of persons…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Admission, Community Organizations, Economically Disadvantaged
Nolan, Nelda M.; Gross, John G. – 1972
The report evaluates the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) in Missouri by comparing the dietary adequacy and nutrition knowledge of 200 program families representative of urban, small town and rural areas with that of 200 similarly representative non-program families. Data were gathered by personal interviews taken in March,…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Control Groups, Data Analysis, Demography
Brock, Thomas; Matus-Grossman, Lisa; Hamilton, Gayle – 2002
This paper reports on the state of welfare after the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) passed by Congress in 1996. The National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies (NEWWS) is a federally initiated study that explores the questions of what works best and for whom. NEWWS evaluated seven areas across the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Community Colleges, Economically Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged
Community Colleges as Primary Skill Developers and Labor Market Intermediaries: Fresno City College.
Melendez, Edwin; Suarez, Carlos – 2001
This document describes the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program, which California instituted in response to the 1996 federal welfare-to-work legislation. The CalWORKs program also has the mandate to develop employment opportunities for welfare students. Community colleges are required to spend their CalWORKs…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Community Colleges, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Legislation
Melendez, Edwin; Suarez, Carlos – 2001
This paper describes the Essential Skills Program at the Community College of Denver (CCD), which functions as an education broker and a labor market intermediary that coordinates the services offered by CCD with the needs of a number of Department of Social Service clients. The Essential Skills Program (ESP) supplements the services offered by…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Daily Living Skills
Melendez, Edwin; de Montrichard, Alexandra – 2001
This paper reviews the changes in federal requirements for welfare recipients and the response by California's community colleges, in particular Los Angeles City College (LACC) and Los Angeles Trade Technical College (LATTC), to welfare-to-work legislation. In 1985, the California Legislature enacted GAIN (Greater Avenues for Independence) as its…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Community Colleges, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Legislation
Gall-Clayton, Nancy; Chandler, Betsy, Ed. – 1988
This report tells the stories of dozens of low-income families from all parts of Kentucky. It is a personal report, compiled after 4 months of travel and interviews. The report also makes recommendations for improvements in programs designed to serve impoverished families. The introduction discusses the seeming paradoxes of poverty and generosity,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Change Strategies, Educational Benefits, Educationally Disadvantaged
Mathur, Anita – 2002
In August, 1997, the California State Legislature created CalWORKs as California's version of federal welfare reform, known nationally as the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant. Cal WORKs provides that each eligible adult recipient may receive up to 60 months of assistance during their lifetime. All adult recipients must…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Community Colleges, Economically Disadvantaged
New York State Education Dept., Albany. – 1975
This report is considered to constitute the first attempt to present a comparative analysis on university level programs of educational opportunities. The following topics are included in the analysis: enrollment and retention, demographic characteristics, academic background, major subject area, supportive services, academic progress, student…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Records, Ancillary Services, College Programs
Stanford Research Inst., Menlo Park, CA. Educational Policy Research Center. – 1974
Presented is a two-part study which represents a broadly based effort to assess the consequences of federal compensatory funds being targeted toward elementary students showing low achievement rather than only to those who were first low income and then low achieving. Part 1 deals with the technical issues of suitability, feasibility, and cost…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Cost Effectiveness, Cost Estimates, Criterion Referenced Tests
