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ERIC Number: ED133398
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1969-Aug-31
Pages: 226
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Multi-City Community College Educational Demonstration Project (New York City) Conducted at the State University of New York Urban Center in Brooklyn... March 1968 to August 31, 1969. Final Report.
State Univ. of New York, Brooklyn. Urban Center.
This document reports on the Family Education Project, an educational program operated at the State University of New York's Urban Center in Brooklyn, New York. A total of 43 families made up of 67 adults and 181 children were secured from the Bedford Stuyvesant Youth-In-Action Head Start Program to participate in the project. These families were selected on the basis of their motivation to participate in the project and because there was some indication that they would remain in the educational program for the entire year. The program included self-development courses and bi-weekly seminars for the adults, activities involving all members of the family, and special activities for the various age groups within the family. The main hypothesis of this study is that if Head Start children, siblings and their parents are involved in a program as a family, various benefits will be shared by all family members. The most important of these is improvement in the parent-child relationship in which the parent, who is himself actively engaged in course work, assists the child as an active learner. Some of the findings include the following: Head Start children whose parents are in the project made measurable progress during the time that their family was in the project. These children progressed at a faster rate as compared with the national norms in evaluating Head Start progress. (Author/AM)
Publication Type: Reports - Research
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Sponsor: Office of Economic Opportunity, Washington, DC.
Authoring Institution: State Univ. of New York, Brooklyn. Urban Center.
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