This nonannotated bibliography for upper elementary education is divided into broad area topics including: (1) child development; (2) improvement or enhancement of elementary curriculum; (3) literature on educating the disadvantaged youth; (4) films, filmstrips, and tapes; and (5) general reference materials. The bibliography is produced by the…

The annotated bibliography contains approximately 90 citations (1972-1976) on early childhood programs for handicapped and disadvantaged children. Entries are arranged by accession number and usually include the following information: title, author, source, date, pagination, availability (including Educational Resources Information Center number…

This bibliography contains 105 citations from professional journals covering the period 1964-1974. Articles are arranged alphabetically by author with an annotation defining purposes and conclusions for each. (MJ)

This 38-item annotated bibliography lists publications of organizations and periodicals alphabetically by author. Topics include instructor and student manuals for studying visual language, visual literacy and remedial and developmental reading, films, audiovisual instruction, various aspects of visual literacy in the classroom, photography and…

This bibliography of materials on home school cooperation was compiled to meet the literature needs of the project on Ways to Improve Education in Desegregated Schools (WIEDS), of the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory in Austin, Texas. It covers a range of areas including parents as volunteers, citizen participation in decision making,…

Dropouts are considered to deviate from the following norms: maintaining certain levels of performance in school work; submitting to the requirements of classroom and school management; abiding by the moral codes of schools; conforming to peer group expectations; and seeking to move into the cultural mainstream of middle class white America. The…

Twelve annotations from the ERIC system are intended to give the practicing educator easy access to recent and useful information on the needs assessment process. (MLF)

This second updated search of the ERIC system, "Dissertation Abstracts," and the journal literature yielded 76 documents which present guidance and counseling practices for particular use with minority and other disadvantaged elementary and secondary school students. (CJ)

This listing of sources pertaining to various aspects of visual communication and their instructional implications contains dissertations, journal articles, books, papers and projects. Eighty-two entries through 1972 are organized in seven sections: (1) the process of communication, (2) research design, (3) screen education/ visual literacy:…

This annotated bibliography focuses upon works suitable for use with disadvantaged children. Books, stories, poems, films, and recordings are listed separately for preschool children and for age groups 5 to 8, 9 to 11, and 12 to 14. A concluding section lists other useful resources for adults working with children. (AA)

This booklet contains descriptions of resources available on the delivery of special education, vocational education, and vocational rehabilitation services to handicapped youth at the secondary and postsecondary levels. The materials were gathered at 1976 and 1979 "National Forum on Pathways to Employment" meetings sponsored by the President's…

This volume contains abstracts of the evaluation reports of projects funded under Title I ESEA during the 1975-76 school year. It is intended to provide the reader with a brief but comprehensive overview of the degree to which project goals were attained. Each abstract contains current management information, as well as information on observed…

Perhaps the most intriguing problem in American education today is teaching the children of the poor to read. Children in urban communities usually speak a different dialect of the English language. They bring to school a language containing all of the components of the informal standard dialects (syntax, structures, form, style and lexicon), a…

This annotated bibliography is the third volume of a three-volume report of a national study whose primary objectives were to quantify resource utilization patterns of vocational education programs effectively serving special needs populations and to develop a methodology for estimating resources required to successfully serve these populations.…

The annotated bibliography on Gifted--Handicapped/Disadvantaged/Underachievers contains approximately 65 abstracts and associated indexing information for documents or journal articles published from 1957 to 1976 and selected from the computer files of the Council for Exceptional Children's Information Services and the Education Resources…