The basic approach of the North Carolina Advancement School has been based on the belief that psychological and attitudinal factors of underachievement must be treated before students can achieve academically; the School's program, therefore, centers around improving the students' self concept, attitudes, and responsibility for learning. With boys…

A three-year project to investigate black student utilization of the public community college in the South began with a year-long study of the attitudes of black students enrolled in high schools and junior colleges in five communities. Trained interviewers talked at length with approximately 400 students and with teachers, parents, and community…

Abstracts are presented of 33 research studies in adult education. An account of noncredit adult education program development at the University of Georgia, 1804 to 1968, is followed by summaries of papers in such areas as adult basic education, community development and education, management training and development, adult learning, attitudes and…

This research investigated whether low income rural functional illiterates could be motivated to learn by a prorated stipend given on the basis of academic performance. Fifty control subjects received a flat $15 weekly; 50 experimental subjects received the $15 plus stipends. Participants eligible for stipends were those in the upper third of…

This report condenses the essential findings of seven task reports on educational needs for the Ohio Department of Education. Emphasizing present needs, resources, and tentative solutions, the summary covers seven topics: vocational and technical education, educational finance, use and training of auxiliary personnel, data processing centers,…

This volume of the "Disadvantaged Child" Series presents papers on all aspects of the compensatory education debate, written in large part by many of the educators who played leading roles in this program. Part I provides a comprehensive overall picture of the program. Part II discusses culture-fair testing, "Jensenism" and…

The purpose of this report is to compare part-time day release and block release schemes available to apprentices and trainees in the engineering industry. (Block release provides for one or more periods of continuous attendance at college for study and workshop instruction; one session does not exceed 18 weeks.) The main focus is on educational…

This volume contains the papers given at the first Eastern Africa Conference on Language and Linguistics, held in Dar es Salaam in December 1968, under the auspices of the Survey of Language Use and Language Teaching in Eastern Africa. The chief aim of the Conference was to bring together scholars and teachers working in Eastern Africa interested…

Following the establishment of working definitions of "creativity" and "English," Chapter 1 of this state-of-the-art paper surveys research into the nature of creativity, points out the need to establish criteria for creativity, and discusses the relation of creativity to English. Chapter 2 considers the classroom and the teacher as elements of a…

This annotated German bibliography of textbooks for use in language programs includes a wide variety of instructional media. Materials are classified under: (1) language texts, (2) teachers' texts, (3) language texts for foreigners, (4) exercise books and tapes, (5) testing materials, (6) radio courses, (7) instructional films, (8) vocational…

The study explored how extension personnel in Pakistan and the United States are selected and trained. Criteria for selection training curricula, areas of specialization, entry into professional practice, conducting of extension work, and extent of inservice training given to overcome problems and difficulties, were studied. Suggestions for…

Intended for parents of handicapped children and the specialists who work with them, this collection includes highly personal accounts of the experience of having a handicapped child. Included are 11 accounts by parents of the cerebral palsied and orthopedically handicapped, eight by parents of the mentally retarded, nine by parents of the deaf,…

With the immediate aim of reinforcing the productive and receptive control of ordinary spoken language, experiments were undertaken using two methods of teaching French to university students with some knowledge of the written language. The first of the two groups involved in the experiment completed a 240-hour course consisting primarily of…

In an attempt to deal with the current foreign language enrollment and learning problems created by the number of students who discontinue foreign language study after the sixth to eighth grade learning sequence, this pilot study seeks to identify, through the use of the Modern Language Aptitude Test and the Foreign Language Attitude Scale with…

The first volume of a collection contains 19 articles on the disadvantaged child. There are chapters on child rearing patterns, mental retardation, schools serving disadvantaged students, Northern urban education, adjustment problems, and assessment of potential. Also included are papers dealing with education and/or compensatory programs, teacher…