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Download full textKoralek, Robin; Johnson, Heidi; Ratcliffe, Caroline; Vericker, Tracy – Urban Institute (NJ1), 2010
This report presents the final results for the evaluation of the New Americans Centers (NACs) demonstration project in Arkansas and Iowa. It focuses on program operations and plans for program sustainability, while highlighting services provided through the demonstration projects in Arkansas and Iowa. It also documents outcomes for New Iowan…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Demonstration Programs, Job Training, Career Centers
Direct linkBloom, Dan; Sommo, Colleen – MDRC, 2005
A postsecondary credential is becoming a prerequisite for admission to the American middle class. Community colleges, with their open admissions, convenient locations, and relatively modest cost, serve as the gateway to postsecondary education for many low-income and disadvantaged students. Unfortunately, many students enter community college…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Special Programs, Academic Persistence, Open Enrollment
Dale, Jordan – Camping Magazine, 1992
A four-week program at Sunrise Lake Camp (Cold Spring, New York) helps immigrant Russian Jewish children to adjust to their new country. Program components include language enhancement activities, bilingual staff, scholarship assistance, cultural sensitivity training for staff, and cross-cultural education for immigrant and U.S.-born campers. (SV)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Camping, Cultural Education, Demonstration Programs
de la Puente, Manuel; Bendick, Marc, Jr. – 1983
This report reviews government programs in the United States that serve the educational, training, and employment needs of immigrant and refugee youth. An overview of European immigration to the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is followed by a presentation of the characteristics of post-1960 U.S. immigrants. Empirically…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Bilingual Education, Career Education, Demonstration Programs
Wakefield, Patricia, Comp. – 1984
This report describes the background, organization, design, evaluation, and recommendations of a demonstration project involving a model preschool for 3- to 4-year-old children learning English as a second language (ESL). The impetus for the project was the increase in the number of immigrant children in British Columbia. Objectives were to…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Demonstration Programs, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Gray, Ellen – 1983
Results from the evaluation of 11 demonstration programs designed to prevent child abuse are summarized in this working paper. The programs were of three types: perinatal programs; community-wide education, information, and referral projects; and culturally relevant parent education efforts. The four perinatal programs focused on extended…
Descriptors: American Indians, Asian Americans, Attachment Behavior, Blacks
Kato, Linda Yuriko – 2002
Immigration has made public housing populations increasingly diverse, a challenge met by administrators and staff at two housing developments participating in the Jobs-Plus Community Revitalization Initiative for Public Housing Families. Immigrants and refugees from Southeast Asia, East Africa, and Latin America have settled beside native-born…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Community Development, Community Support, Cultural Context
Glover-Smith, Alma J.; Bell, Bernadette S. – 1981
Written for teachers, coordinators, and supervisors, this manual describes the structural content of Project SELEP (Survival Skills in English Learning Experience Program). It indicates areas of concern in planning, establishing, and evaluating classes emphasizing survival skills for daily living appropriate for the foreign born adult in an…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Behavioral Objectives, Curriculum Development
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1984
This Congressional report presents and examines the Adult Education Act Amendments of 1984. The Adult Education Act Amendments of 1984 are designed to amend the Adult Education Act in order to simplify requirements for States and other recipients participating in Federal adult education programs and also to amend certain stipulations of the act…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Advisory Committees, American Indian Education
