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Download full textFrost, Joe L.; Pilgrim, Geneva Hanna – 1969
This job corps center program is designed for male school drop outs from low socioeconomic backgrounds and ages 16 through 21 years, whose entrance test scores reveal marked deficiencies in reading. Three thousand of the dropouts were enrolled in a foundation reading program designed to advance skills sufficiently for the students to take advanced…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Dropout Programs, Dropouts, Reading Improvement
Plumb, Geraldine H.; Wilkinson, John C. – 1974
In 1972, using Title I funds, a study was initiated to determine the effects of using teacher aides and student tutors in remediating reading deficient second and third graders in the Boise schools. The two schools in the pilot program were located in areas having a high incidence of low-income families. Tutor managers (paraprofessionals)…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Paraprofessional School Personnel
Brown, Alberta; And Others – 1972
The Pyramids' Reading Program, with the Instructional Materials Center (IMC) and the Combine Component, operates in Minneapolis public and parochial Target Area elementary schools to help improve the reading skills of educationally disadvantaged children. The IMC writes, produces, and distributes the reading material used in the program, and the…
Descriptors: Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Instructional Materials
Klingelhofer, E. – 1971
Program 10 of the Center for Research and Development in Higher Education is a broadly based program of research into the dynamics of the absorption of "new students," here defined as students who formerly did not continue their education beyond high school into post-secondary education. The program will attempt to develop answers to the following…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Counseling, Disadvantaged Youth, Educationally Disadvantaged
Meredith, William V.; Biller, Julian H. – 1971
The primary objective of the Title I Reading Project was to improve the reading skills of sixth- and seventh-grade underachievers. Treatment consisted of individualized programs based upon diagnostic testing in reading. Project classes in nine and 11 schools at the sixth- and seventh-grade levels, respectively were evaluated. Selected pupils were…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Grade 7, Individualized Programs, Program Descriptions
Knoell, Dorothy M. – 1972
There are many obstacles to assessing the impact of "new" or disadvantaged students enrolled in community colleges; minority students and staff often oppose such assessments, the conditions and problems in quantifying measurements are difficult to control, and it is difficult to separate and assess interrelated conditions and events…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Educationally Disadvantaged, Enrollment Rate, Financial Support
Lodato, Francis J. – 1975
This paper reports on the clinical and guidance component of a program designed to meet the needs of non-public school children in a New York City School District for the 1974-75 school year. In all, a total of 8,398 students from the non-public schools participated in the program. The evaluation of this program included: a) achievement measures…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavioral Objectives, Clinical Diagnosis, Cognitive Objectives
Trismen, Donald A.; And Others – 1975
Since July 1971, the Educational Testing Service has planned and conducted a study of compensatory reading programs in United States public schools. This volume reports the results of the 1972-1973 school-year study (phase two), which involved pre- and posttesting of all students in the second, fourth, and sixth grades of a subsample of the…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Elementary Education, National Surveys, Program Evaluation
RMC Research Corp., Arlington, VA. – 1976
Selected results from a study of compensatory reading programs sponsored by Title I and by other sources are presented and discussed. Various phases of the study included a questionnaire survey of a nationally representative sample of elementary schools, pre- and posttesting of students in grades two, four, and six of a subsample of the original…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Elementary Education, Intervention, Program Effectiveness
Flynn, Donald L. – 1976
This report examines in detail the cost-estimating model developed for a study of reading-program costs, undertaken as part of a large-scale evaluation of compensatory reading programs. Results of the cost-analysis were presented in a separate report. Here, the confidence which can be placed in the cost-assessment model is evaluated in terms of…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Cost Estimates, Elementary Education, Measurement Techniques
Peer reviewedAulls, Mark W. – Language Arts, 1975
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Elementary Education, Reading, Reading Comprehension
NJEA Review, 1978
This article notes some of the criticisms of government-funded compensatory education programs found in two recent reports: the Rand Report on Federal Programs and the Meissner Report on the status of New Jersey's state-funded remedial programs. (SJL)
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Failure, Federal Programs
Peer reviewedJohnson, Doris J.; And Others – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1978
The article examines characteristics, diagnosis, and treatment of learning disabled adolescents from a clinical perspective. (PHR)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Clinical Diagnosis, Concept Formation
Culbertson, Frances M.; Wille, Craig – Canadian Counsellor, 1978
This study sought to evaluate the effectiveness of a relatively short-term program of relaxation training in producing changes in elementary students in terms of attention-related skills associated with reading tasks in the classroom. Evaluation of change was measured by change in experimental variables and subjective evaluations of change.…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Attention Span, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedHall, Penelope K.; Knutson, Claudia L. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1978
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Elementary Education, Positive Reinforcement, Practicums
