Education laws and policies have moved toward promoting socio-emotional (SEL) skills, adopting numerous terminologies in their standards. However, the incremental change has left compensatory education practitioners who are committed to promoting SEL opportunities with little guidance when the programs' governing policies do not include language…

The commentaries on Downey and Condron found in this issue help advance an overdue conversation about schools and inequality. This paper considers two questions that are prompted by the comments from the authors' colleagues: (1) Would we make more progress reducing socio-economic and racial achievement gaps by reforming schools or by reforming the…

Educational contexts that support the complexity of in-service teacher learning around the purposeful use of technology are scarce. This qualitative case study describes a Literacy Enrichment Camp offered for traditionally marginalized elementary-aged children. Within camp, 5 teachers and 1 instructor prioritized their own and students'…

Out-of-school time (OST) programs like the Coastal Ecology science camp can positively influence science identities, particularly for youth from groups historically underserved and underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). OST STEM programming gives youth opportunities to learn science outside the formal classroom in…

Children and youth who reside in economically disadvantaged households and in low-resource, urban neighborhoods are more likely to lose ground in math and reading over the summer than their higher-income peers. Although summer learning programs are a promising strategy for narrowing this achievement gap, surveys indicate that only 25 to 36 percent…

During the summer of 1969, Vicore, Inc. simultaneously conducted four classes in reading improvement skills for disadvantaged youth employed as Summer Aids at the Naval Weapons Laboratory in Dahlgren, Virginia. (Author/EB)

This paper discusses the basic components of a quality summer compensatory program which includes (1) definite objectives, (2) planned, directed teaching, (3) division of responsibility, and (4) internal evaluation. The findings of the Westinghouse report on Head Start and the Ypsilanti Preschool Curriculum Demonstration Project are discussed.…

This report summarized the first of two workshops for teachers of disadvantaged and handicapped students in vocational schools in the urban setting. The workshop was jointly planned by the Vocational Division of the Baltimore City Public Schools and the University of Maryland. Departments represented were special and industrial education and the…

This report summarized the second of two workshops for teachers of disadvantaged and handicapped students in vocational schools in the urban setting. The workshop was jointly planned by the Vocational Division of the Baltimore City Public Schools and the University of Maryland. The departments of special and industrial education and the institute…

Forty-two teachers and supervisors, selected by the Texas Education Agency, participated in a 2-week workshop designed to provide an intensive study of the disadvantaged and to increase the effectiveness of teachers of culturally disadvantaged youth, primarily in the area of occupational training. Scholars in the fields of sociology and psychology…

To help teachers develop effective procedures for dealing with disadvantaged vocational students, the Baltimore City Public Schools sponsored a summer workshop in cooperation with the College of Education at the University of Maryland. As a result of this workshop, teachers were to a) become sensitive to the problems of disadvantaged students, b)…

An EPDA Institute, held June 10 to July 21, 1969, is described in this report detailing objectives, activities, staff, participants, and results. Based on the needs for inclusion of African and Afro-American materials in the curriculum, and for a more effective approach to the problems of the disadvantaged learner, the specific objectives of the…

The 1972 Summer Youth Employment Program, sponsored by Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona, included 596 youngsters, of whom 377 belonged to the Neighborhood Youth Corps, 130 more were economically disadvantaged, and 48 were American Indian students employed by the base. A wide range of government, industrial, and educational institutions…