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Download full textWessman, Alden E. – 1969
Project ABC is a precollege talent search program that provides academically able, motivated disadvantaged youth with scholarships to private secondary schools, after an intensive summer transitional program. In an evaluation study of 82 disadvantaged boys, predominantly Negroes, who entered in the program in 1965, it was found that (1) the boys'…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academically Gifted, Black Students, College Preparation
Browning, Philip L.; And Others – 1969
The report of the Title VI Program in Oregon presents an overview of the summer 1969 activities which consisted of 24 projects designed for the areas of trainable and educable mentally handicapped, speech handicapped, deaf, visually handicapped, deaf-blind, and emotionally disturbed. The bulk of the text presents summary abstracts of each project…
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Education, Handicapped Children, Hearing Impairments, Mild Mental Retardation
Smith, Kathleen; And Others – 1973
During the summer of 1971, the Administration of Atlanta Public Schools used Emergency School Assistance Program funds to utilize a summer camp as a living-working community which would be an integral part of a four-week fourth quarter, problem-solving course dealing with desegregation problems. The objective of this group was to serve as a model…
Descriptors: Culture Contact, Desegregation Methods, Educational Administration, Educational Planning
Hollingshead, Maybelle – 1971
The Open Classroom Institute started June 7, 1971, with a 1-week teacher training workshop followed by a 7-week innovative summer program in various curriculum areas for American Indian students in grades 1 through 3 at Concho School, Concho, Oklahoma. This publication is a statistical descriptive report covering the period June 7 - July 30, 1971.…
Descriptors: American Indians, Curriculum Enrichment, Educational Environment, Educational Objectives
Cox, Derek M. – 1970
Instituted as part of "Avenues Unlimited" (The Tower Hamlets Youth Project), a community development approach to youth services was attempted in the cosmopolitan inner city slum district of Spitalfields, East London. Efforts began in 1966 with a clean up campaign, a neighborhood club for parents and youth, and other activities by the…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Community Development, Consultants, Disadvantaged
Diablo Valley Education Project, Orinda, CA. – 1972
A five-week summer workshop offered inservice training to twenty-eight intermediate and high school social studies and English teachers. Participants examined the concepts of conflict, power and authority, identity, and interdependence through content and team working sessions, ranging from games to lectures, and independent study in an effort to…
Descriptors: Concept Teaching, Conflict Resolution, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development
McDaniel, John W. – 1973
This Final Report summarizes five years of development of cooperative summer and school-year programs between the Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC) and community colleges. NYC Goes to Community College is a combined work and study program for economically disadvantaged youth, cooperatively conducted by local sponsors of Neighborhood Youth Corps and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Compensatory Education, Cooperative Education, Cooperative Programs
Ahlstrom, Clyde J., Comp. – 1968
The 1968 annual evaluation of Kansas' Title I (Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965) State Migrant Program is presented in this report. The program was in operation in 9 school districts for 6 weeks during the summer and consisted of 931 children from preschool to 7th grade. The program's objectives were (1) to improve the child's…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Annual Reports, Community Involvement, Curriculum
Marans, Robert W.; And Others – 1972
This report presents the results of a study of approximately 2400 young people who, for 8 weeks in the summer of 1971, participated in the first part of a three-year Youth Conservation Corps Pilot Program. The main objective of the study is to evaluate the impact of the program on the young people in regard to environmental education, social…
Descriptors: Conservation Education, Ecology, Environment, Environmental Education
Ellis, Ronald S. – 1975
Evaluated was the Summer Education Program for Neurologically and Physically Handicapped Children, designed to improve the performance of 145 children (6-16 years old) in the following areas--gross motor skills, swimming, fine motor skills, socialization with nonhandicapped peers, and independent daily living skills. The program included the…
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities
Fiore, Carole D. – 1998
This book provides a theoretical basis for summer library reading programs, and provides hands-on knowledge about what really works in summer library programs, culled from the experience of librarians across the country. The book contains an introduction--"What Are Summer Library Reading Programs"--and five chapters. Chapter 1--"The…
Descriptors: Copyrights, Elementary Secondary Education, Libraries, Library Extension
Kahn, Bernard – 2002
This document presents an evaluation report and parent handbook of for a federally supported 6-week residential summer program for children and adults with developmental disabilities developed by the Hebrew Academy for Special Children (Brooklyn, New York). It also includes the program's parent handbook. Evaluation focused on three groups of camp…
Descriptors: Adults, Curriculum Design, Developmental Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Cheney, Christine; Demchak, MaryAnn – 1999
A 2-year followup evaluation was conducted with 1 male and 19 female rural Nevada regular and special education teachers and related service workers who had participated in two summer institutes on teaching practices for students with severe, multiple disabilities and students with emotional disturbances. Telephone interviews sought to determine…
Descriptors: Collegiality, Inservice Teacher Education, Institutes (Training Programs), Low Incidence Disabilities
Zyskowski, Gloria; Curry, Janice; Patrick, Ertha; Washington, Wanda – 1999
In 1998-99, Title I provided funding to 50 schools in the Austin Independent School District (AISD), Texas (43 elementary, 5 middle, and 2 high schools) with 60% or more students from low-income families. This report contains several analyses of the impact of Title I funds on student achievement. Students at non-Title I schools and at district…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth
Kirby, Laura – Horizons, 2002
A British summer adventure education program aims to re-engage high risk secondary students into society. A qualitative evaluation found that although the participants had fun, there was not enough focus on transferring skills to daily life. Because of the many factors affecting the experience, any difference made in the lives of the youths was…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adventure Education, Foreign Countries, High Risk Students
