Education Improvement Project: The First Five Years.

Overview & Synopsis

Contents of this report focus on the history and activities of the Education Improvement Project (EIP), a branch of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Through innovative and coordinated programs, the Project seeks to improve education for the disadvantaged. Reports include the Education Improvement Projects of Nashville, Durham, Atlanta, Huntsville, and New Orleans; the EIP's reading program, now terminated, which was a project sponsored jointly by Atlanta University and EIP and funded by the Ford Foundation; the Rural EIP, which involves a consortium of educational institutions, organizations, and collaborating agencies, and which currently includes a program in one rural center in Florida, another in Georgia, and another in Tennessee; Project Opportunity, for the preparation of academically able but disadvantaged secondary school students for higher education; and, on the College Education Achievement Project and College Preparatory Center Program. (JM)