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Center for Research on the Education of Disadvantaged Students (CDS)


ED Program Office: OERI/At-Risk Institute

Award Number: R117R90002

ED Agency Contact: Harold Himmelfarb

Start Date: 1/1/1989

End Date: 11/301994

Total Award: $8,485,600

Center Director: McPartland, James M.

Note: Jomills H. Braddock II served as director of CDS from 1989 - 1992; James M. McPartland served as Center director from 1993-94.

Institution: Johns Hopkins University, 3505 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218

PHONE: (410) 5168800

FAX: (410) 516-8890

Center Description: The proposed mission of the Center was to significantly improve the education of disadvantaged students at each level of schooling through new knowledge and practices. The working definition of "educationally disadvantaged" students are students who are not succeeding or are underachieving in school due to insufficient educational experiences in at least one of the three domains of school, family, and community. The thrust of the Center's programs was its use of scientific designs, measures, and methods to provide clear tests of the true impact of new educational approaches and to provide empirical evidence on how to improve the education of disadvantaged students under different school conditions. The Center also supported an Institutional Activities Program and a Dissemination Program.

The Center supported the following projects:

  1. Success for All (ID 7111)
  2. Schoolwide Projects (ID 7112)
  3. Tutoring (ID 7113)
  4. Effective Preschool and Kindergarten (ID 7114)
  5. Summer School (ID 7115)
  6. Promotion and Retention Policies (ID 7116)
  7. A Test of School District Strategies for Eliminating Educational Disadvantage (ID 7117)
  8. Integration of Family Support and Mental Health Services Within the Elementary School (ID 8107)
  9. Effective Programs Clearinghouse (ID 8108)
  10. Preventing Early Reading Failure (ID 8109)
  11. Longitudinal Study of Elementary School Effectiveness for Disadvantaged Children (ID 8110)
  12. Syntheses of Research and New Perspectives on Critical Issues of Middle Grades and High School Programs for Disadvantaged Students (ID 7119)
  13. Survey Analyses of Effective Middle Grades and High Schools for Disadvantaged Students (ID 7120)
  14. Experiments in Middle and High Schools (ID 7121)
  15. Education and Achievement of African American Males (ID 8112)
  16. Effective Middle Schools for Disadvantaged Students: Theory, Evidence, and Practice (ID 13501)
  17. Career Magnet High Schools for Disadvantaged Students: Evaluation of a High School Health Professions Program (ID 13502)
  18. Using Cooperative Learning Methods for Basic Skills Instruction in Inner City High Schools (ID 13503)
  19. Cooperative Learning in Bilingual Education (ID 7123)
  20. Community Learning Centers and Literacy Development Among Language Minority Students (ID 7124 )
  21. Cooperative Learning and American Indians (ID 7125)
  22. The Adaptation of Immigrant Children in the American Educational System (ID 7126)
  23. Middle Grades Studies of Language Minority and Limited English Proficient Students (ID 8111)
  24. School and Family Connections (ID 7129)
  25. School and Community Connections (ID 7130)
  26. Findings and Implications of the Research on Effective Schooling for Disadvantaged Students (ID 13504)

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Last updated August 20, 1997(sjl)