Describes an innovative program developed at the University of California San Francisco and designed to address the shortage of underrepresented minorities and persons of disadvantaged backgrounds in the dental profession and to improve access to care for disadvantaged communities. The program involves exam preparation and learning skills courses,…

Records and observations from a summer Head Start program, conducted in Los Angeles by Delta Sigma Theta, are delineated in this book. It relates firsthand experiences of the participating personnel as they developed and implemented a Head Start program for some 300 children. The book is divided into three sections. Section I,…

This publication describes (1) the origin of the Follow Through program, (2) the present status of the Colorado Follow Through program, and (3) criteria for establishing other such programs. It contains a dozen photographs of children participating in Follow Through programs. (WD)

Durham Education Improvement Program (EIP) seeks to counteract early stimulation deprivation with a classroom experience based on the reinforcement principles of social learning theory. The EIP classroom emphasizes both warm, personal attention from the teacher and carefully structured, concrete environments that invite exploration, language, and…

Project AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination) is a four-year elective high school program that prepares underachieving, disadvantaged students to attend college. The program is now implemented in 58 secondary schools in San Diego County, California. (TE)

This document describes and evaluates a teen tutorial program conducted in Grove City, Ohio. Forty seventh grade pupils, two kindergarten classes, and parents of both groups were subjects of this project to create and demonstrate a strategy to help young disadvantaged teenagers develop an understanding of personal and family relationships before…

In 1972, the Nottinghamshire Education Committee surveyed all primary schools to identify those in areas of multiple social and educational disadvantage. A program, including increased funding, parent education, and in-service, was developed for these schools, to meet the Plowden Report's goal of "positive discrimination" for the…

This study hypothesized that mothers from a low socioeconomic area could be trained by teachers to implement an infant tutorial program using their 1- to 2-year-old children as subjects. The 20 mothers recruited were ADC recipients or met the OEO poverty definition. Mothers agreed to attend a 2 hour weekly class to learn teaching techniques to be…

Objectives of this program are to provide health services, foster emotional development, plan for educational growth as a developmental and purposeful process, and encourage parent participation. Children receive medical and dental examinations and care. Social workers serve as liaisons between school, home, and community for recruitment and…

In this report, the formation and use of a creative movement program by a group of Israeli educators as a means of promoting intellectual development in culturally disadvantaged children, mostly of North African and Asian origin, is described. The theoretical framework of the experiment, based on the work of Piaget and other educational…

This manual evaluates and describes an educational day care model after 1 year of development. The model was designed for 3- and 5-year-old disadvantaged youngsters who exhibit low scores on intelligence, linguistic, and perceptual tests. Model objectives were based on the following criteria: (1) effectiveness of the curriculum with children, (2)…

This booklet presents papers and discussion group reports from a workshop convened by the Council of Europe to investigate research problems concerned with compensatory education for the socioculturally disadvantaged at the preschool and primary levels. Researchers from 11 countries participated in the workshop. The papers and reports, written in…

To measure the effects of group programed instruction on aspects of reading in Head Start children, the Sullivan Associates Readiness in Language Arts series was used with approximately 15 children in each of five Head Start classes. An equal number served as controls. Pretests and posttest were Lee-Clark Readiness Test, Murphy-Durrell Analysis,…

This publication presents a collection of true stories that demonstrate the ways in which children's and parents' lives have been enriched as a result of their involvement with Project Head Start. The stories describe remarkable achievements, often made in the face of great disadvantages and difficult circumstances, which illustrate, through…

INCLUDED IN THIS DOCUMENT ARE PROGRESS REPORTS FROM THE OFFICE OF URBAN AFFAIRS ON (1) PROGRAMS FUNDED UNDER TITLES II-A AND I-B OF THE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY ACT (ELEMENTARY, SECONDARY, AND ADULT EDUCATION, AND YOUTH SERVICES), (2) ACTIVITIES OF THE HUMAN RELATIONS UNIT, (3) INSERVICE TRAINING PROGRAMS FUNDED UNDER THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY…