A two-part questionnaire is presented. The first part is intended to elicit information from the school principal about his school and the students in it. The second part has to do with compensatory reading programs. (CK)

Title I, which provides federal assistance for compensatory education, is up for revision and extension during the second session of the 95th Congress. (Author/MLF)

This article examines ways in which Australian preschools for less advantaged minority groups of children (particularly Aboriginals) might be made more effective by incorporating policies and practices from Piaget's theories. (SB)

This article asks "How literate do workers need to be?" and suggests such measures as the widespread use of technical materials written in "plain language" and employers' offering job-related reading programs. (JB)

The effects of the highly structured Distar language program and the semistructured Schiach program were compared on two groups of socially disadvantaged children in a day nursery. (Both programs attempt to assist young, learning-delayed children.) There were no major statistically significant differences between the two groups. (SK)

Describes a program at the Juvenile Achievement Center in Waco, Texas, that serves students rejected in regular school programs because of overt behavior problems, social maladjustment, academic deficiencies, and poor self-concepts. (Author/JF)

Describes the failure of compensatory education programs from the past through the present, the premises upon which such programs are based, and the real reasons for the failure of such programs. (AN)

A paper presented at conference of National Association for the Teaching of English (Exeter, England, 1970). (Editor/RD)

The author, a Boston-based attorney and the co-director of the Center for Law and Education, presents testimony about students with disabilities, shares some thoughts generally about whether the requirements of NCLB are working for these particular students, and identifies areas of concern and areas in need of improvement. Specifically, she…

This report describes a preventively oriented intervention program with 13 inner city toddlers identified as slow in early social and verbal development. Program components featured a committed human relationship, enrichment, modeling and shaping, and also a behavior modification sub-program unit. Program children evidenced significant…