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McLevy, Catherine – Literacy Discussion, 1975
Descriptors: Case Studies, Developing Nations, Dropout Programs, Educationally Disadvantaged
Peer reviewedBrunner, Catherine – Educational Horizons, 1971
Describes the experimental project of the Baltimore City Public Schools to prevent development of learning disabilities and to reduce the number of school dropouts within the population identified as educationally disadvantaged. (Author/MB)
Descriptors: Early Admission, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Schools, Experimental Programs
Bell, Nathan – 1986
About 60 percent of Binghamton's pupil population come from low income families; close to 1,000 pupils are provided remediation under Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act. This program provides educationally and economically needy people with ways to succeed. The program's attributes for success are as follow: (1) clear…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Education
Download full textBowman, David L. – 1970
This is a summary of the second and third years' work on the research project on training teachers for the culturally disadvantaged, reported fully in SP 004 110, SP 004 111, and SP 004 112. The project was based on the hypotheses that students with academic difficulties could be made more academically successful, their grade-point averages could…
Descriptors: Educationally Disadvantaged, Experimental Programs, Low Ability Students, Relevance (Education)
Peer reviewedZdep, Stanley M. – Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Educationally Disadvantaged
SMALL, GEORGE D.
CURRENT EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS FOR DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN HAVE BEEN OF THREE TYPES--TRADITIONAL PATTERNS AND PRACTICES, TRADITIONAL PATTERNS WITH SOME CHANGE OR INNOVATIONS, AND INNOVATIVE PROGRAMS. A VARIETY OF INNOVATIVE PROGRAMS, BASED ON INQUIRY, DEVELOPMENT, DIFFUSION, UTILIZATION, AND EVALUATION, HAVE MOST SUCCESSFULLY MET THE REQUIREMENTS OF…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Cultural Influences, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth
Zdep, S. M. – 1970
A one-year experimental program that transported a total of 38 "volunteer" disadvantaged city children to schools in a nearby suburban community was evaluated in grades 1 and 2. Twenty-six of the 38 children were in a total of 12 different classes at these two grade levels. At the conclusion of the program, transported first graders…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitudes, Bus Transportation, Community Attitudes
PINNOCK, THEO. J.; AND OTHERS – 1966
AN EXPLORATORY STUDY ON VARIOUS ASPECTS OF FUNCTIONAL ILLITERACY, AND AN EXPERIMENTAL INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM WERE CONDUCTED. IN MACON COUNTY, ALABAMA THE SAMPLE SELECTION CONSISTED OF APPROXIMATELY 650 NEGRO AND 10 WHITE ILLITERATES FROM A SOUTHERN COMMUNITY. DATA WERE GATHERED THROUGH INTERVIEWS, QUESTIONNAIRES, TESTS, AND RATING TECHNIQUES. DATA…
Descriptors: Black Education, Educational Improvement, Educational Problems, Educationally Disadvantaged
Mecklenburger, James – Phi Delta Kappan, 1972
Description of America's first educational voucher experiment. (DN)
Descriptors: Educational Economics, Educational Finance, Educational Opportunities, Educational Vouchers
Gramlich, Edward M.; Koshel, Patricia P. – 1975
This book examines in detail the experiment in educational performance contracting conducted by the United States Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) during the 1970-71 school year. Major objectives of the OEO project were to find out whether a private educational firm could teach educationally disadvantaged children to read and write better than…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Educational Assessment, Educationally Disadvantaged
Saint Cloud Board of Education, Minn. – 1968
Evaluations of 2 experimental programs developed by the St. Cloud, Minnesota, school system with funds from Title III, Elementary and Secondary Education Act are given in this report. Section 1 describes the Junior High Development Center, a program designed to help students who had very low basic education skills and showed signs of becoming…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Problems, Compensatory Education, Dropout Prevention
This is a report on the first year's operation of a major job-readiness and job placement program in an "urban fringe" area near the San Francisco Bay. It includes contractor's categories and full information on types and numbers of placements. Also included are narratives of successful programatic breakthroughs and descriptions of areas which…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged, Employment Programs
Von Harrison, Grant; Cohen, Arthur M. – 1969
The increasing use of upper-grade students as tutors for younger children has been viewed as a means of reducing the achievement gap that exists among culturally-disadvantaged children. However, research has indicated that the potential of such a tutorial arrangement is linked closely to the tutoring techniques used, and unless student tutors are…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary School Students, Experimental Programs
Thielman, Jeff – Momentum, 2002
Describes an educational foundation that offers financial support to those wishing to institute a San Miguel/Nativity or Cristo Rey model school. Reports that these schools must strive to reduce dropout rates, increase number of students prepared for college, and increase number of students receiving Catholic education. (NB)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Catholic Educators, Catholic Schools, Demonstration Programs
National Council of Jewish Women, New York, NY. Research Inst. for Innovation in Education. – 1982
This report describes the administrative structure, activities, and research projects of the Research Institute for Innovation in Education. The institute was established in 1968 as a cooperative project of the National Council of Jewish Women (USA) and the School of Education of the Hebrew University (Israel) with the goal of undertaking research…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Education Work Relationship, Educational Research
