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Teaching and Learning Research Corp., New York, NY. – 1970
The purpose of the Benjamin Franklin Urban League Street Academy Program is to help students stay in school, help dropouts to return to school, or help students enter the job market. The program was evaluated in three categories: East Side Cluster Service, summer enrichment, and educational programs. The major evaluation objectives were to…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention
Frazier, William Donald – 1966
This study was conducted to compare the effectiveness of two types of vocational education programs in improving students' social and vocational adjustment and success. In a comparison between dropout rehabilitation and high school vocational graduates, 92 graduates of the Oklahoma City Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA) Youth Program…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Comparative Analysis, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Programs
Bureau of Elementary and Secondary Education (DHEW/OE), Washington, DC. – 1968
Details are enumerated for 150 ESEA Title I projects being conducted across the nation through the 1968-69 school year to improve education for disadvantaged children. Basic information for each project includes type of project, place, starting date, cost, staff size and composition, participants (grade level if children, relationship if adult),…
Descriptors: Comprehensive Programs, Cultural Enrichment, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Programs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1991
This document reports on a proposal from the Job Corps community that would create 50 new centers around the country by the year 2000 and increase participation by 50 percent. Testimony includes statements and prepared statements, letters, and supplemental materials from a former Secretary of Education; delegates and representatives to Congress;…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Dropout Programs, Dropouts, Economically Disadvantaged
Bawden, William T. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1919
The two years under review constitute a period of unprecedented progress in vocational education, since it is probably conservative to say that the tangible results accomplished equal those of any decade preceding. There are important factors in this development. To mention a few, they include: (1) Most important of all has been the culmination of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Vocational Education, Educational Trends