The National Governors' Association Task Force on Technology decided that schools have not generally become more productive through use of technology. Key recommendations center on encouraging educational technology demonstrations in schools, sponsoring research and development, supporting the creation of marketing mechanisms, and encouraging…

Using an ethnographic approach, this study described the activities of an alternative high school program and explained how the economically disadvantaged students, who had been rejected in conventional school settings, responded to the alternative school environment. According to students, the alternative setting was far more conducive to their…

Socioeconomic and ascriptive factors clearly influence high school students' academic performance, which in turn influences eventual college choice. This study shows that the socioeconomically disadvantaged who survive academically prior to high school graduation are attending colleges costing approximately the same as those of more advantaged…

Effects of the Mother-Child Home Program (MCHP) were evaluated with a broad range of measures on cognition, social behavior, and emotion. Findings indicated that children in Bermuda scored above U.S. norms on cognitive tests and were functioning well in the preschool period. The MCHP had few demonstrable effects on any segment of the sample. (RH)

Discusses the role of vocational education in preparing students to succeed in a changing society. The author uses her own life as an example. (JOW)

The Neonatal Network, a model program in Dallas for interagency service coordination for primarily indigent, minority, very-low-birth-weight infants and their families is described. The Neonatal Network has been an effective service delivery coordination system and training mechanism that should be applicable and easily replicable in other…

Examined the preferred counselor characteristics of two groups: students with disabilities and students who were educationally and economically disadvantaged. Counselor characteristics were examined in terms of how preferences are differentially expressed for help with personal-social versus vocational-educational concerns. (Author/BH)

Results of this dramatics program for economically disadvantaged children indicate significant improvements in reading achievement and attitudes toward self and others. (PD)

Describes an evaluation of a summer career awareness workshop program for economically disadvantaged youth. The evaluation found that three-fourths of the 96 participants reported that as a result of the three-day workshop, they were closer to making a career decision. (CT)

Follows up a study of a case in which three predominantly Chicano elementary schools in Santa Barbara, California, were closed due to declining enrollment. Investigates psychological maladjustment, academic decline, parental involvement decline, and adverse community impact. Concludes that the closure created a significant burden on a large…

Describes Project P.S. 137, implemented in a New York City public school. Affiliated with the University of Oregon's Direct Instruction Model, the project involved kindergarten, first-, second-, and third-grade classes. Students in the program consistently surpassed mean performance levels of comparable disadvantaged inner-city students on…

Since the civil rights movement of the 1960s, the federal government has taken an aggressive role in ensuring that all individuals have equal access to public education programs. For the disadvantaged, handicapped, limited English proficient, and other individuals with special educational needs, vocational education has been an important federal…

The life study of a 12-year-old girl from a poor urban community whose mother has been sent to prison examines the changes in the childs' reactions to and relationship with her mother during the two years her mother is incarcerated, raising fundamental questions of what is happening to the children of women prisoners and what the rights of these…

Describes the Piney Woods Country Life School, which provides for the education of black children from deprived social and economic backgrounds. (Author/AM)

Five American Indian tribes in Louisiana were visited and general information obtained concerning their history, present status, and socioeconomic problems. The tribes were the Choctaws, the Chitimachas, the Coushattas or Koasatis, the Houmas, and the Tunicas. (NQ)