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Newton, Xiaoxia A.; Jang, Heeju; Nunes, Nicci; Stone, Elisa – Issues in Teacher Education, 2010
Recruiting, preparing, and retaining high quality secondary mathematics and science teachers are three of the most critical problems in the nation's urban schools that serve a vast majority of children from socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds. Although the factors contributing to these problems are complex, one area that has caught…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Urban Schools, Disadvantaged Youth, Experimental Programs
Taylor, George – AV Guide: The Learning Media Magazine, 1972
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Radio, Experimental Programs
South-Western City School District, Grove City, OH. – 1967
Reported is an evaluation of a pilot study carried out by the South-Western City School District (Ohio) for the design of a full-scale demonstration tutorial program, under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title III. The specific aim of the program is the prevention of educational deprivation during the first five years of life. The use…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Evaluation, Experimental Programs, Federal Aid
Youngstown Public Schools. – 1970
This report of the Youngstown (Ohio) Public Schools concerns the operation of their Motivation Center program, funded by Title I of ESEA. The purpose of the Motivation Center is to establish a working and learning environment in which the emphasis will be on building and improving the pupil's self-image. It is specifically designed to provide…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Experimental Programs, Individualized Instruction, Motivation Techniques
Massachusetts State Board of Education, Woburn. Div. of Research and Development. – 1969
This preliminary report examines eight vocational and technical education programs for disadvantaged youth both in the state of Massachusetts and in other states. After reviewing the literature, the staff selected schools to be sampled in this present exploratory survey and developed and evaluated a comprehensive data form. The study showed that…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Research, Experimental Programs
Spicker, Howard H. – 1969
The purpose of this paper is to identify some variations among experimental programs and discuss the manner in which such variations seem to affect a program's success. To accomplish this purpose an in-depth analysis of a few major preschool intervention studies is made in terms of four pertinent variables: (1) Curriculum Model (2) Home…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Disadvantaged Youth, Experimental Programs, Intervention
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Dusewicz, Russell A. – Education, 1972
Study to determine how early in the disadvantaged child's life intervention should take place in order to maximize the effectiveness of supplementary programs. (CB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education, Enrichment
Cribb, Herschel – Opportunity, 1971
Descriptors: Black Students, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Experimental Programs
Belenky, Robert – 1971
Tangential pieces and parts of work experiences of a psychologist-educator-researcher are put together in this collection to let the reader into the real world of education and experimental projects. The book is a loosely structured compilation of information taken from a personal journal, reports, and tape-recorded interviews of the people dealt…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Community Support, Counseling, Disadvantaged Youth
Phipps. Lloyd J.; And Others – Agricultural Education Magazine, 1971
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Programs, Experimental Programs
Flint, David L.; Hick, Thomas L. – 1981
When total scores on the California Preschool Social Competency Scale (CPSCS) of disadvantaged children attending New York State experimental prekindergarten programs in 1975-76 were replaced by factor scores derived through principal component analysis, exposure time had no significant relationship to three components of the scale:…
Descriptors: Ability, Disadvantaged Youth, Experimental Programs, Factor Analysis
Leeb, David – 1971
At Mercer County Community College (New Jersey) an experimental learning resources center and a new curriculum in the social sciences were developed having primary objectives of: (1) keeping more minority-group students in school, (2) reducing their withdrawal rate, (3) developing assessment techniques accommodating inner-city populations, (4)…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Evaluation, Experimental Programs, Experimental Teaching
Fleming, Douglas – Opportunity, 1972
Project Broad Jump is a New York-based education program for some 600 youngsters from urban areas, in the third through tenth grades. The basic concept of the program is that academic opportunities are not accessible to many inner-city youth, whereas Head Start and Follow Through help pre-third graders, and Upward Bound helps high school students.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Experimental Programs
Doyle, Wayne J.; Schwartz, Henrietta S.
This paper describes an attempt to deal with the issue of dissatisfaction in the traditional approach to doing research and evaluation at the Ford Training and Placement Program for professional personnel in the inner-city schools of a large metropolitan area. The paper discusses a) the kinds of questions that need to be examined in this program,…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Programs, Educational Research, Evaluation Methods
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Griffin, Patricia C. – Child Welfare, 1973
A project carried out by a group of graduate social work students in a facility within a mainly black low-income area offers evidence of the effectiveness of innovative techniques, and discloses problems facing black and white staff members. (Author/ST)
Descriptors: Black Community, Caseworker Approach, Community Services, Disadvantaged Youth
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