Verbal and nonverbal patterns of dominance in dyads formed from a group of 72 college students determined to be sex-type males, sex-type females, or androgynous individuals were investigated in the study described in this paper. The paper first notes problems in recent research on sex differences in communication, presents the research questions…

Intended for supplementary reading material for Spanish speaking children in elementary grades, this illustrated Spanish text was developed by students in the Bilingual Teacher Aide Program at Mesa Community College. Both language and content have been controlled to provide linguistically and culturally sensitive material relevant to the…

This environmental education activities package for grades 3-5 contains activities in the following curriculum areas: (1) social science; (2) science; (3) language arts; and (4) mathematics. The activities are divided into seven sections based on seven environmental topics: (1) ecosystems; (2) population; (3) energy and resources; (4) economics,…

To investigate the strategies children use in comprehending written stories, third, sixth, and ninth grade students were given scrambled six-sentence stories and asked to reorder them. Three versions of each of six stories were created. The first version was the canonical form of the story predicted by story grammar rules; the second version began…

A number of common procedures underlie speaking, writing, listening, and reading; some students acquire these through exposure while others do not. A program for the teaching of procedures will differ from many conventional programs in that it will first identify and recognize these procedures. Abstract and complex prose and issues of…

School subjects do not hold an equally secure position in any educational system. Some subjects are required of all children, some are required of only some children, and some are not required at all. It is the task of this paper to show how people talk about subjects with respect to their place in the school curriculum. The social valuing of…

This evaluation focuses on the following components of New York City's District 6 Title I umbrella program: (1) a corrective reading program for grades 3-6; (2) junior high school supplementary reading labs; (3) compensatory mathematics labs for grades 3-9; (4) English as a Second Language (ESL) for Hispanic children in grades 1-9; (5) Project…

Thirty-eight sixth grade students (20 good and 18 poor readers) were involved in a study that examined comprehension under oral and written modes of presentation and across four expository texts that had been prepared at two levels of difficulty (easy and hard). All subjects listened to and read the texts in a counterbalanced order and afterwards…

The aim of this paper is to bring some conceptual synthesis to the deliberations of the conference, "What Do We Know About Teaching and Learning in Urban Schools?". The author begins with an attempt to define the concept of urban education, and continues with an identification of some of the critical issues related to urban life and education in…

College students who have clear goals for careers in engineering, management, law, medicine, and teaching have a pressing need to become proficient in writing, speaking, listening, and reading. While they should continue the reading and analysis of imaginative literature that they began in high school, they should also develop their latent powers…

Results from three small-scale investigations of specific aspects of bilingual schooling as well as results of a more traditional large-scale evaluation of bilingual education programs in downstate Illinois are presented. The three small studies were designed to assess natural language in the classroom, compare criterion-referenced versus…

A booklet for limited English speakers on buying furnishings provides information on what to do before going shopping for furniture, how to make a selection, and how to pay for the acquisition. Cartoons, questions about the message in cartoons and narrative passages, checklists on things to evaluate, and the phonetic pronunciation of key words are…

The articles in this collection approach the theme "Reading in the Year of the Child" in a variety of ways. The topics covered in the 23 articles include the following: the school as a center for human development; mainstreaming across nations; mainstreaming and the learning disabled child; a Jungian perspective on reading behavior; the arts and…

A SUMMARY OF THE EMPIRICAL RESEARCH RELEVANT TO THE PROBLEMS OF EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL DEPRIVATION IS PRESENTED IN AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY. THE HYPOTHESIS, METHODS, SAMPLING, FINDINGS, AND CONCLUSIONS ARE CONTAINED IN EACH REFERENCE. EACH IS CLASSIFIED AS TO HOME ENVIRONMENT, SIBLINGS AND PEER GROUP, INTRODUCTION TO SCHOOL, SCHOOL PROGRAMS AND…

BECAUSE MOST OF THE BEGINNING PHASE OF FEDERAL SUPPORT FOR ENGLISH HAS BEEN COMPLETED, THIS IS IN ONE SENSE A TERMINAL REVIEW OF THE WORK COMPLETED OR NEAR COMPLETION BY THE CURRICULUM STUDY AND DEMONSTRATION CENTERS SUPPORTED BY THE COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAM OF THE OFFICE OF EDUCATION. AN INTRODUCTION ASSESSES THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CENTERS'…