The effect of an enriched program on twenty-six low achievers at Ravenswood High School

This study sought to determine and report some of the factors related to the failure of a selected group of black students at Ravenswood High School to achieve satisfactory progress in a special sophomore core program that was designed to enhance their learning. Specific questions to be answered were: 1. What effect did the program have on the reading levels of the students? 2. What changes occurred in the attendance patterns of the students? 3. Was there a decrease in reported behavioral problems for each student? 4. Did the students in this study pass more units during the first semester of the 1972-1973 school year than in the last semester of the 1971-1972 school year? 5. Did the grade point average of the students in this study increase after their first semester in the core program? 6. What are some of the causes that lie behind the students' underachievement?