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Haskins, Ron – Education Next, 2004
Project Head Start was created during the heady, idealistic days of the mid-1960s. The idea for Head Start, a preschool program for disadvantaged children, emerged from the observation that, on average, poor and minority children arrive at school already behind their peers in the intellectual skills and abilities required for academic achievement.…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth, School Readiness, Minority Group Children
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Perrin, Karen M.; Dorman, Karen A. – Journal of School Nursing, 2003
The purpose of this study was to explore the personal life stories of women who became mothers while still in their teen years. The focus was on themes that evolved as important in the lives of these women, including family support, partner support, mentor support, economic opportunity, resiliency, optimism, and spirituality. Each of the 22 women…
Descriptors: Mothers, Family (Sociological Unit), Social Support Groups, School Nurses
Walstad, William B. – 1994
In 1994, a national survey was conducted of high school students, the general public, and small business owners and managers to determine their attitudes regarding entrepreneurship. Telephone surveys were conducted with randomly generated samples of 600 members of the general public, 602 high school students, and 204 business owners and managers.…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Business Administration, Business Education, Career Education
Hazard Community Coll., KY. – 1987
A project was created to provide individualized and technical training specially designed for women who desired to become small business owners. Recruitment of eastern Kentucky women in the Hazard Community College five-county service area was done through direct mailing; posting of flyers; and newspaper, radio, and television publicity. In…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Business Administration, Craft Workers, Economic Opportunities
Kerka, Sandra – 1993
The spectrum of women-owned businesses ranges from full corporations to microenterprises. Women business owners share many characteristics and motivations of business owners generally; other factors are dissatisfaction with "glass ceiling" limits, desire for job flexibility, and age discrimination. Women entrepreneurs often face barriers…
Descriptors: Blacks, Career Education, Economic Opportunities, Entrepreneurship
Orfield, Gary; Ashkinaze, Carole – 1991
This book explores the consequences of conservative policy for black opportunity by identifying the economic and social costs of the long-term conservative experiment. The book grew out of a large project studying the changing patterns of opportunities for white and minority youths growing up in five of the nation's urban communities, but…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Black Achievement, Black Employment, Black Students
Rochin, Refugio I.; Soberanis, Pat – 1992
A recent report from Rand, a think tank in California, titled "The Trend in Inequality among Families, Individuals, and Workers in the United States" by Lynn A. Karoly confirms that the gap between the haves and have-nots is widening and that the middle class in the United States is shrinking. Latinos have been particularly hard hit.…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Economic Opportunities, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Level
McKee, Katharine; And Others – 1993
This pamphlet examines the development and activities of WomenVenture's business development program in the context of facilitation of self-employment as a means to women's economic self-sufficiency. The following topics are discussed: women in the work force, women in poverty, self-employment and low-income women, formation of the Women's…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Economic Opportunities, Educational Opportunities, Employed Women
Hunt, Susan, Ed. – 1984
Advice for schools, colleges, and universities to generate more revenue and noncash resources through entrepreneurial and business ventures is offered in this indexed handbook. In addition to nine case studies of campus-based enterprises, six articles present the process by which new sources of revenue can be identified. Legal and tax…
Descriptors: Capital, Case Studies, Compliance (Legal), Economic Opportunities
Horton, Diane, Comp. – 1989
This document is intended to help community educators decide whether to pursue an entrepreneurship program and how to organize the program. It includes a summary of various models and resources that exist. The first section reviews an 1988 survey conducted by the Center for Community Education and Economic Development, which showed a nationwide…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Business Administration Education, Community Development, Community Education
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Journal of Private Enterprise, 1986
Papers in these proceedings are grouped under the following headings: addresses, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship education, free market economics, public policy, and economic education. Papers include "Economic Freedom and Private Enterprise" (Murray L. Weidenbaum); "Marxism and the Free, Capitalist Society" (Tibor R. Machan); "Knowledge,…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Business Administration, Business Education, Economic Development
Taylor, Charlotte – 1986
The role of small business and entrepreneurship in today's economy is well documented. Entrepreneurship and small business ownership are an especially attractive option for women. Women have been seeking an escape from traditional, low-paying, dead-end jobs by choosing entrepreneurship at a rate five times faster than that of men. Women now own…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Business Education, Economic Development, Economic Opportunities
Miami-Dade Community Coll., FL. – 1987
The cooperative program described in this paper is aimed at black high school students and combines the efforts of the Urban League of Greater Miami, Dade County Public Schools, Miami-Dade Community College (M-DCC), and participating universities nationwide. The program goals are the following: (1) to raise the aspirations of students in targeted…
Descriptors: Black Students, College Preparation, College School Cooperation, Cooperative Programs
Parsons, Marie – 1984
The number of competing daily newspapers in American cities has dwindled until only about 50 cities boast two papers. Of the newspapers in those cities, 23 now maintain separate editorial operations but have joint printing, advertising, and circulation departments. The concept of joint operation is 50 years old, dating from the Depression years…
Descriptors: Competition, Cost Effectiveness, Economic Climate, Economic Factors
Minnesota State Dept. of Energy and Economic Development, St. Paul. – 1984
The texts of four speeches and seven workshop presentations comprise this report intended to be a resource for rural women seeking careers in business ownership and to assist Minnesota's legislature and others interested in helping them. Presentations provide practical, technical, and inspirational information by 18 women with experience and…
Descriptors: Business, Business Administration, Career Guidance, Career Planning
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