Maternal education is a strong correlate of children's language, cognitive, and academic development. In most prior research, mothers' education has been treated as a fixed characteristic, yet many mothers, particularly economically and educationally disadvantaged mothers, attend school after the birth of their children. In the present study, we…

This article raises the question of whether Sesame Street could be a valuable learning device for children older than those for whom the program was designed as well as for children who are functioning below average for their ages. (Author/AM)

This experiment, conducted at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel was undertaken to determine if adolescents of impaired cognitive ability caused by social and/or cultural deprivation could be rehabilitated through the use of proper teaching and counseling methods. Counseling for the experimental group of students was done by a social…

A basic problem of disadvantaged students is their inability to deal with information: to assist the teacher the Niagara Centre of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education has described a set of skills sequences that might be called Basic Thinking Skills. (JM)

Used hierarchical linear modeling to explore the effects of the social context of Chapter 1 prekindergarten classrooms on 4-year-olds' learning. Found that children made smaller gains on the Preschool Inventory over the preschool year in classrooms with higher concentrations of minorities, children with special needs, recent immigrants, and…

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,"…

This is the evaluation report of the third year of operation, 1970-71, of the Fort Worth Central Cities Project, which was initiated in 1968-69 to provide structural preschool experiences for two- to five-year-old children from an economically deprived area in the Fort Worth inner city. The Project was a joint effort of the Southwest Educational…

Innovative programs of school reform and research for diverse student populations have tended to focus on specific cultural, linguistic, or ethnic populations and on specific local communities. Findings from this body of research over the years have resulted in a core of principles for designing and implementing programs for at-risk students. Five…