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Augustine, Catherine H.; McCombs, Jennifer Sloan – State Education Standard, 2015
The Wallace Foundation is funding a multiyear demonstration project to determine whether voluntary, district summer learning programs can stem summer learning loss for low-income students. Six districts--Boston, Cincinnati, Dallas, Duval County (Florida), Pittsburgh, and Rochester, New York--were selected for the demonstration project and…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Low Income Groups, At Risk Students, Program Effectiveness
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Smilkstein, Gabriel – Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 1990
Community-based medical education is key to training physicians to work in needy fields such as outpatient care and health care for the medically underserved. Describes the disadvantages of traditional medical school curricula and presents sample community health curricula now being used. Suggests ways to increase medical students' awareness of…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Health Services, Curriculum Development, Demonstration Programs
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Andrews, Susan Ring; And Others – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1982
Reports the results of the Parent Child Development Center experiment begun in 1970 by the United States Office of Economic Opportunity. The goal of the project was to promote the development of children from low-income families, primarily by helping parents become more effective child-rearing agents. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Curriculum Development, Demonstration Programs, Early Childhood Education
Alabama Univ., Tuscaloosa. – 1970
This special demonstration project was designed to develop ways of reaching illiterate women and motivating them toward adult basic education goals through programs that support and strengthen family life. Volume I presents the following: Introduction and Purpose: Project Procedure; Program Accomplishments and Evaluation (Description of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Blacks, Community Programs