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Download full textCombes, Josette – 1992
This report examines how parent involvement in running day care centers in France has increased in recent years, and investigates the role that the Association des Collectifs Enfants Parents Professionnels (ACEPP) has played in making this form of child care more acceptable. After a discussion of the historical development and current choices of…
Descriptors: Day Care Centers, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education, Economically Disadvantaged
Office of Policy and Planning (ED), Washington, DC. – 1993
It is time to revise the Chapter 1 program to prepare disadvantaged children to meet the challenges of the National Education Goals. The Chapter 1 program must be aligned with larger reforms to develop higher standards for student performance and greater accountability. The gap in achievement between disadvantaged and other students means that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Accountability, Compensatory Education
Passow, A. Harry – 1992
It is more than a quarter century since Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965, the first major Federal legislation authorizing funds for compensatory education for the disadvantaged, came into effect. In 1981, Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act (ECIA) replaced Title I. Some Federal funding…
Descriptors: Accountability, Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Context Effect
Bruno, Paula – 1993
This report assesses the Acquisition of Learning by Facilitating Academics (Project ALFA), which is designed to assist the academic progress of Haitian students at Lafayette High School in Brooklyn, New York. Project ALFA served a total of 62 students of limited English proficiency who had attended an English-speaking school system for less than 5…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Objectives, Educationally Disadvantaged
Hill, Jim; Rezabek, Dale – 1990
Greater Avenues for Independence (GAIN), California's welfare reform program, provides education, job services, and support services to welfare recipients to promote self-sufficiency and eliminate welfare dependency. In 1989, a survey was conducted of all California community colleges to gather information on GAIN participants, services, and…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Colleges, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Finance
Friedlander, Daniel; And Others – 1986
This report presents findings of a three-year evaluation of West Virginia's Community Work Experience Program (CWEP), which requires public service in exchange for welfare payments by able-bodied recipients of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). Overall findings indicate that the state has succeeded in its principal objective:…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Education, Cost Effectiveness, Demonstration Programs
Swartz, Katherine – 1987
Between 1979 and 1983 the noninstitutionalized Medicaid population grew by 210,000 people, or one percent. In comparison, because of a severe economic recession, there was a 37 percent increase in the number of people in poverty during the same period. The Medicaid population growth rate is relatively small for the following reasons: (1) Congress…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Children, Demography, Economic Change
City Univ. of New York, Flushing, NY. Queens Coll. – 1984
Operation Success is a pilot project funded by the New York State Education Department to provide support services to high school dropouts and potential dropouts. It offers programs, including employment programs, intended to develop skills, self-awareness and self-direction, enourage career goals, and develop appropriate attitudes toward the…
Descriptors: Attendance, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
Hoff, Wilbur; And Others – 1968
Through the use of group interviews in which individuals were stimulated to interact on key questions, 100 applicants over the age of 45 and with incomes below the poverty standard were selected for training in two different 11-week training sessions. There were no requirements of education or experience. The first phase of the program was in a…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Allied Health Occupations Education, Attendants, Community Health Services
Wingel, William J. – 1976
This practicum report presents a detailed account of a project by an elementary school principal in designing, implementing, and evaluating a comprehensive improvement program to alleviate problems which have occurred as a result of the transitional state of the neighborhood at the Clara Barton Public School, in the school district of…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Change Strategies, Community Characteristics, Community Involvement
An Evaluation of Project for Increased Achievement and a New Outlook. State Urban Education Program.
New York Univ., NY. Center for Field Research and School Services. – 1973
The intent of this project was to improve the quality of the high school experience for a selected group of "high risk" freshmen by providing them with services beyond those normally made available. At each of six high schools, the guidance counselors together with the counselors of each school's feeder schools, selected a group of 250…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention, Economically Disadvantaged
Honig, Alice S. – 1972
This paper describes the Family Development Research Program, a program combining quality infant day care services with a home visitation component. Particular emphasis in this paper is on the day care center curriculum. Primary goals of the program are: (1) the design and maintenance of optimal environments which nourish an infant's development…
Descriptors: Age Groups, Curriculum Development, Day Care, Early Childhood Education
Roman, Elliott M. – 1994
The Alternative Learning Methodologies through Academics Project (Project ALMA) was an Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title VII-funded project in its fourth year of operation in two high schools in Queens and the Bronx (New York). The program served 436 Spanish-speaking students, most of whom were of limited English proficiency.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Counseling, Dropout Prevention, Economically Disadvantaged
South Carolina State Council on Vocational and Technical Education, Columbia. – 1993
This biennial report provides an evaluation of the South Carolina vocational education program delivery system assisted under the Carl D. Perkins Act and the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). It focuses on the adequacy and effectiveness of the delivery system in achieving the purposes of the two acts. These findings of the State Council on…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Coordination, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Cooperation
Westat, Inc., Rockville, MD. – 1993
This report gathers papers prepared for a design conference for the evaluation of the Federal Talent Search Program, an early intervention program to identify gifted and talented financially needy students and connect them with discretionary grants for higher education. An introductory paper synthesizes major conference themes. These include: (1)…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Early Intervention, Economically Disadvantaged, Federal Programs
