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Direct linkLadd, Helen F. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2012
Current U.S. policy initiatives to improve the U.S. education system, including No Child Left Behind, test-based evaluation of teachers, and the promotion of competition are misguided because they either deny or set to the side a basic body of evidence documenting that students from disadvantaged households on average perform less well in school…
Descriptors: Evidence, Federal Legislation, Disadvantaged, Educational Attainment
Download full textLadd, Helen F. – Sanford School of Public Policy, 2011
Current U.S. policy initiatives to improve the U.S. education system, including No Child Left Behind, test-based evaluation of teachers and the promotion of competition, are misguided because they either deny or set to the side a basic body of evidence documenting that students from disadvantaged households on average perform less well in school…
Descriptors: Evidence, Educational Attainment, Disadvantaged, Federal Legislation
Walker, Karen – Education Partnerships, Inc., 2007
How many people reading this brief believes they could financially survive in a household of four people on $19,784 a year? Yet, this was the official poverty threshold as determined by the federal government for 2005. During this same year, 17% of children under 18 lived below the poverty line, of which 14% were white, 11% Asian, 28% Hispanic and…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Poverty, Low Income Groups, Social Indicators
CHANDLER, MARVIN; AND OTHERS – 1966
A COMMUNITY PROFILE OF ROCHESTER, N.Y. CITES HISTORY, PRESENT COMMUNITY CHARACTERISTICS, AND CURRENT IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS AS THEY RELATE TO CULTURAL DEPRIVATION AND AN ANTI-POVERTY PROGRAM. TO DETERMINE WHAT EFFECTS HISTORICAL, ECONOMIC, POLITICAL, ECOLOGICAL, AND SOCIAL FORCES HAVE UPON HEAD START CHILDREN, MATCHED GROUPS OF EIGHT HEAD START…
Descriptors: Church Responsibility, Community Action, Community Attitudes, Community Study
Balbernie, Robin – Zero to Three (J), 2004
As part of a commitment to eliminate child poverty, the British government has established Sure Start programs across the country. Sure Start programs are very similar to U.S. Early Head Start initiatives; their stated aim is to improve the health and well-being of disadvantaged families and children before and from birth. The article describes…
Descriptors: Health Services, Mental Health Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Mental Health
Opportunities Industrialization Center, Inc., Seattle, WA. – 1968
The goals of the Opportunities Industrialization Center organization in Seattle include providing hope for impoverished and hard-core unemployed in the form of job preparation by providing adult education, pre-vocational training, skills training, counseling, job development, placement and followup. Another primary goal of OIC is providing and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Guidance, Counseling Services, Disadvantaged
