Describes several successful programs for raising the achievement of disadvantaged students. Holds that since instructionally effective schools do exist, and they have known features which provide useful operational guidelines, it is possible to achieve further advances in successful pedagogy for poor children. (GC)

Examines how children with special needs can best be identified and categorized without "labeling" them and discusses proven procedures or strategies for use with children who need special or diverse reading instruction. (GC)

Recommendations for increasing participation of functionally illiterate adults in community education programs include decentralization of educational sites, availability of transportation and child care, and instruction stressing functional literacy and teaching reading and computation as tools for solving students' personal and social problems.…

This paper outlines strategies being pursued at Rutgers University for making future vocational education teachers more responsive to disadvantaged students. Methods of affecting changes in teachers' attitudes and teaching techniques are discussed. The mastery approach is described as a teaching method especially effective with disadvantaged…