SUCCESS FOR THE CULTURALLY DISADVANTAGED IS IMPROBABLE BECAUSE OF SEVERAL FACTORS - POOR SELF-IMAGE, BACKGROUND AND VALUES ALIEN TO SCHOOL STANDARDS, LOW ASPIRATIONS (BY MIDDLE-CLASS STANDARDS), AND INDIFFERENT PARENTS AND/OR UNSTABLE HOME CONDITIONS. SOME OF THE PROGRAMS ALREADY ESTABLISHED TO COMBAT THESE PROBLEMS ARE NEW YORK'S "HIGHER…

Describes the use of classroom management techniques to promote integration in the Arthur T. Talmadge (K-4) school in Springfield, Massachusetts. Shows how positive attitudes and a philosophy that every child is valuable help to create a "family feeling" that means successful integration. (GC)

The purpose of this curriculum guide is the development of those understandings, attitudes, and skills necessary for effective and responsible democratic citizenship. This curriculum hopes to develop in each child the realization of his own uniqueness, dignity, and worth and an awareness of these characteristics in others through the structure of…

The purpose of this curriculum is to guide the child in decision-making in the areas of citizenship and human relations, to develop an understanding of his immediate environment and the larger environment of the world in which he lives, to help the child to adapt to our changing society and its changing demands. We hope to accomplish these goals…

The overall objectives and teaching techniques for the supplementary primary grade social studies units are described in SO 001 457. The specific objectives of this unit for grade two are: 1) to discover differences and similarities found in people through understanding of their basic needs, desires, and problems; 2) to become aware of the…

The supplementary primary grade social studies units have been developed in order to guide the child in the decision-making areas of citizenship, values, and human relations, and to develop within him a better understanding of his immediate environment and that of the world in which he lives, and to help him to adapt to a changing society and its…