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Perez, Salvador – ProQuest LLC, 2017
An initiative to coordinate early learning programs across a major city in the Midwestern United States was undertaken in 2013. The opinions of teachers regarding effects on instruction and children were not included in the development and implementation of the program. This omission is important because multiple scholars have pointed to the…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Preschool Teachers, Urban Schools, Public Schools
Comey, Jennifer; Scott, Molly M.; Popkin, Susan J.; Falkenburger, Elsa – Urban Institute, 2012
The U.S. Department of Education's Promise Neighborhood Initiative (DCPNI) is one of the Obama administration's major antipoverty initiatives and a core strategy of the White House's Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative. It is intended to improve educational outcomes by creating a continuum of school readiness, academic services, and family and…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, School Readiness, Neighborhood Improvement, Neighborhoods
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Kallemeyn, Leanne M.; DeStefano, Lizanne – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2009
Using concepts from the evaluation literature, this case study describes the instrumental, conceptual, and political influence of the Head Start National Reporting System (NRS) and on-going child assessments in a local Head Start program. This study found that a local program intentionally aimed to limit the influence of the NRS. The NRS validated…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Early Childhood Education, Program Improvement, Disadvantaged Youth
Bridgeland, John M.; Milano, Jessica A. – Civic Enterprises, 2012
There are millions of youth ages 16 to 24 who are out of school and out of work. They cost the nation billions of dollars every year and over their lifetimes in lost productivity and increased social services. They also represent an opportunity for the nation to tap the talents of millions of potential leaders and productive workers at a time when…
Descriptors: Out of School Youth, Unemployment, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropouts
Miller, Susan – Council of Chief State School Officers, 2010
In late 1999, philanthropist Susie Buffett wanted to make the smartest possible investment to improve public education in her hometown of Omaha, Nebraska. She and her then-foundation president, Dan Pedersen, spoke with Superintendent John Mackiel regarding how he would choose to use private funds to enhance opportunities for Omaha's 46,000…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Private Sector, Program Development, Neighborhoods
Wright, Benjamin J. – Online Submission, 2008
This study examines the similarities and differences between the US and India in their approaches toward gifted education programs. Beginning with a look at the evolution of gifted education in America and the subsequent programs created under the Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Education Program, American efforts to promote gifted education…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Talent Identification, Foreign Countries, Program Development
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Pichler, Joseph A. – Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1972
The restructuring of the Job Corps and its integration with other manpower programs is described. (BH)
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Federal Programs, Poverty Programs
Burwick, Andrew; Bellotti, Jeanne; Nagatoshi, Charles – US Department of Health and Human Services, Head Start Bureau, 2004
Father involvement enhances children's well-being. A growing body of research supports this conclusion, showing that children with involved fathers exhibit greater school readiness, increased cognitive development, higher levels of empathy, and other positive characteristics (Administration for Children and Families 2004a). Research also indicates…
Descriptors: Fathers, Parent Participation, Early Childhood Education, Federal Programs
Corporation for Public/Private Ventures, Philadelphia, PA. – 1980
This volume is one of the products of the knowledge development activities mounted in conjunction with research, evaluation, and development activities funded under the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977. Based on the Ventures in Community Improvement (VICI) "enhanced" job training/job placement approach, which used…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1972
This report concerns the review by the General Accounting Office of the operation of the fiscal year 1970 programs, funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act and certain aspects of the 1971 programs of the Illinois State educational agency, and of the Chicago, Harrisburg, and Rockford local educational agencies. The local…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Needs
Attivo, Barbara J.; And Others – 1981
A study was conducted to examine methods through which Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) participants may be awarded credit for participation in CETA-sponsored programs in Pennsylvania. To accomplish this, CETA prime sponsors, CETA program operators, and a group of randomly selected potential program operators were surveyed. After…
Descriptors: College Credits, Credits, Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Programs
Dade County Board of Public Instruction, Miami, FL. – 1967
This document is the application for an Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title III, grant for planning a Demonstration School for educationally disadvantaged children in Dade County, Florida. The required statistical data are provided. The objectives of the project include evaluation of proposed sites in the target area, the development of…
Descriptors: Demonstration Centers, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Programs, Federal Programs
Bureau of Elementary and Secondary Education (DHEW/OE), Washington, DC. – 1965
Published in 1965, these guidelines outline the requirements for the fiscal and general administration of Title I projects, for project design and evaluation, and for reporting project activities. Exhibits of forms for reporting activities and administrative procedures at the state and local levels are included. (LB)
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Federal Programs
Sacramento City Unified School District, CA. – 1968
This report contains basic data and procedural information about the 1967-68 Title I programs in Sacramento (proposed projects and components, professional duties, facilities and instructional materials, and policy statements on integration and the participation of nonpublic school children). It also gives information on (1) the progress of…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Data, Desegregation Plans, Disadvantaged Youth
Buchanan, Garth N.; Vogt, Leona M. – 1972
The purpose of this paper is to specify the design for evaluating the second year Health Start Program. This design is used as the basis for the determination of the data to be collected and the comparisons that will be made using these data to provide information to answer the policy questions asked by the Office of Child Development (OCD). For…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data Collection, Delivery Systems, Disadvantaged Youth
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