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Direct linkWeaver, Wendy Smyth – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to determine if the implementation of a Response to Intervention framework had a positive impact on student reading achievement in urban elementary schools. This was a causal-comparative study that examined the reading performance of a sample of kindergarten through grade three students who experienced the Response to…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Reading Achievement, Urban Schools, Elementary School Students
Brady, Elaine – 1984
Of 596 service delivery areas (SDAs) administering the Job Training Partnership Act, 583 participated in a telephone survey regarding private industry council (PIC) and SDA activities. It was found that the number of local jurisdictions responsible for administering federally funded employment and training programs increased by 26 percent.…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Dropouts, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Programs
Download full textHigman, Howard; And Others – 1965
A 1965 summer training program for 90 VISTA volunteers at Monte Vista, Colorado, is described and evaluated in this report. The program was designed to prepare VISTA trainees to work in poverty areas by providing individual helping services and by planning and organizing community action. The trainees lived and worked in Monte Vista, a small…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Community Services, Economically Disadvantaged, Federal Programs
Wright, R. Dean; Wright, Susan E. – 1993
This summary report provides a brief overview of the definitions, methodologies, and findings related to the census of homeless persons conducted in Iowa in 1992. Definitions provided by the McKinney Act and the Department of Education, and the definition used for the Iowa study are included. Questionnaires were administered to school personnel,…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Children, Community Programs, Demography
Brown, Roscoe C., Jr. – 1969
This evaluation is focused on the actual operation and results of five decentralized projects. The following criteria were used in the selection of the specific projects examined: the projects would represent different categories of programs, different geographical areas of New York City, and different allocations in amount of the total budget.…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Cultural Enrichment, Decentralization, Diagnostic Teaching
Bottom, Christine; Stromsdorfer, Ernst W. – 1980
A study examined the attitudes of youths from low income and disadvantaged households toward themselves, school, and work. A random sample of 7547 youths (about evenly divided between male and female) aged 14 to 20 from eight sites were surveyed concerning their opinions of themselves, their perceptions of their current jobs (if employed), their…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Adolescents, Adults, Black Youth
Scheflen, Kenneth C.; Brandewie, Robert J. – 1973
The document evaluates the impact of the Veterans' Education and Training Service (VETS) program on G.I. Bill utilization rates. The VETS program is designed to increase enrollments of educationally and economically disadvantaged veterans in Veterans' Administration education and training programs. Statistical data on veterans and descriptive data…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Programs
Pyecha, J. N.; And Others – 1975
The document is comprised of the appendixes to Volume 3 ("Descriptive Study of the Talent Search Program") of a four-volume Research Triangle Institute final report titled, "A Study of the National Upward Bound and Talent Search Programs." The 14 appendixes comprising the document are: a list of Talent Search advisory council…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Counseling Services, Data Collection, Disadvantaged Youth
Peer reviewedFitchen, Janet M. – Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development, 1991
Explores the economic and demographic factors fueling rural homelessness, based on field research in scattered rural communities. Data were collected by interviewing low-income families and local service providers and from community agency and school records. Suggests strategies for preventing and responding to homelessness that would be…
Descriptors: Crisis Intervention, Economically Disadvantaged, Family Relationship, Federal Programs
Wolf, Abraham – 1971
This is a final progress report on a two-year project that developed a basic and clerical skills training system for women from AFDC (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) households that included the establishment of a company employing former trainees. The following were important components: comprehensive education; a day-care facility;…
Descriptors: Day Care, Day Care Centers, Economically Disadvantaged, Entry Workers
Conrad, Rowan W. – 1976
This third document in a three-volume summative evaluation report submitted to the National Institute of Education presents a portion of the internal evaluation conducted by the Mountain-Plains program, a residential, family-based education program developed to improve the economic potential and lifestyle of selected student families in a…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Career Education, Child Care, Child Rearing
Moss, Marc; Jacob, Robin; Boulay, Beth; Horst, Megan; Poulos, Jennifer – US Department of Education, 2006
In October 2003, the US Department of Education contracted with Abt Associates to design and conduct the Reading First Implementation Evaluation. This report focuses on the following questions: (1) How is the Reading First program implemented in districts and schools? and (2) How does reading instruction differ in Reading First schools and…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Program Implementation, Program Evaluation, Reading Programs
