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Arnold, Rita – 1978
Left handed people have had bad publicity throughout history, and the resulting myths and disadvantages of left handedness have often not been properly dealt with in the classroom. Our language itself maintains a bias against the left, and many other cultures have defined the left as disreputable. Today's life style also provides many physical…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Environment, Educational Environment, Educationally Disadvantaged
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Ornstein, Allan C. – Educational Research, 1982
Discusses the increasing concern with the need to study the problems of the poor, particularly Blacks, to remedy their plight. Reviews the research of many who have studied the culturally and educationally disadvantaged. (JOW)
Descriptors: Blacks, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Environment, Educationally Disadvantaged
Edgar, Donald – Educational Magazine, 1974
Suggests that the terms and methods used for research on cultural disadvantage rest upon shaky foundations and lead to the false conclusion that schools can do little or nothing to outweigh the disadvantages of a poor, culturally deprived home environment. [Available from Publications Branch, Education Department of Victoria, 234 Queensberry…
Descriptors: Accountability, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Environment, Economically Disadvantaged
Mann, Inez K., Ed. – 1969
Devoted to the "Disadvantaged," this issue of CAPS Capsule features an interview with Dr. Edmund Gordon, Director of the ERIC Clearinghouse on the Disadvantaged. In response to questions, Dr. Gordon discusses disadvantagedness, those behaviors characteristic of disadvantaged populations, problems involved in standardized objective testing of such…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Culture Conflict, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Environment
SHAFER, ROBERT E. – 1967
"ENGLISH AND THE DISADVANTAGED," EDITED BY EDWARD FAGAN (TE 000 504) IS THE PRODUCT OF A 1965 NDEA SUMMER INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY IN ENGLISH FOR DISADVANTAGED YOUTH. THE BOOK REPRESENTS AN EXCELLENT EXAMPLE OF WHAT CAN HAPPEN WHEN TEACHERS ARE ALLOWED TO WORK WITH A VARIETY OF UNIVERSITY SPECIALISTS TO DEVELOP NEW ATTITUDES, PLANS,…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Environment
Berdie, Ralph F. – 1967
This study compared the pre-college experiences reported by University freshmen receiving financial aid and those of students not identified as being on one of the financial aid programs. Information was collected through a pre-college experience inventory completed by freshmen. The average student not on financial aid had traveled more, was more…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, College Freshmen, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Environment
Oakland, Thomas – J Negro Educ, 1970
Relates two strategies of compensatory education to the origins of educational deficits. (JM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Environment
Mayer, Louisa – 2002
This paper discusses the disadvantaged state of women in South Africa, including statistics that illustrate effects of their lack of status on their health and well being. It then focuses on the role in South Africa of the community library and information services in empowering especially women. Barriers experienced in information delivery to…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Environment, Economically Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged
Reynolds, Richard J. – 1972
Piaget's notions about schema retention were examined using a sample of 384 disadvantaged four, five, and six year old children from a wide geographical area. The purpose was to examine the idea that schemas may be destroyed or modified by specific methods of interference using a retroactive inhibition model. Pictorial scenes were generated and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Conceptual Schemes
Ogletree, Earl J. – 1973
Volumes have been written on the socially disadvantaged. Two theories related to the disadvantaged have evolved: the first is the "deprivation theory" which stresses the importance of an enriched environment, during the early years, on the cognitive and emotional development of the child; the second is "the cumulative intellectual deficit theory,"…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Environment
FAGAN, EDWARD R., ED. – 1967
PART 1 OF THIS COLLECTION OF ARTICLES BY THE STAFF AND PARTICIPANTS OF AN NDEA SUMMER INSTITUTE IN ENGLISH FOR DISADVANTAGED YOUTH DESCRIBES ATTITUDES AND VIEWPOINTS ON THE PLACE OF ENGLISH IN THE DAILY LIVES OF STUDENTS AND CONTAINS ARTICLES ON "ENGLISH FOR WHAT" BY CHARLES WEINGARTNER, "ENGLISH TEACHING AND DROP-OUTS" AND…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Environment
Commission on Civil Rights, Washington, DC. – 1968
The California State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights held an open meeting in east Los Angeles in June 1967, to collect information about civil rights problems in the Mexican American community. The meeting dealt particularly with problems in education. Specific problems presented by parents, students, and community…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Environment, Educational Discrimination, Educationally Disadvantaged
Mackintosh, Helen K.; And Others – 1965
This brochure focuses on characteristics of severely disadvantaged young children as they come to school, and describes some of the things the visiting specialists found skillful teachers in 16 cities were doing to help children overcome their handicaps. The report shows: (1) How teachers arrange classrooms to stimulate curiosity and learning; (2)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Environment
Noar, Gertrude – 1967
A survey of current research on disadvantaged students (defined as children of unassimilated lowest class Negroes, Puerto Ricans, American Indians, Mexican Americans, and Caucasians) provides classroom teachers with concise and up-to-date summaries of educational research findings and their implications for teaching. Discussions presented cover…
Descriptors: American Indians, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Environment, Disadvantaged Schools
McIntyre, John – 2000
Indexes of socioeconomic status (SES) are widely used in school and higher education because of the known relationship of low educational participation and achievement by socioeconomically disadvantaged groups. Because an index of SES can predict which areas and social groups need to be "targeted" to improve educational participation,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Environment
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