The paper investigates the major economic and sociological factors influencing education systems in the rural South. A review of the significant economic factors reveals the overall lack of industrial capital in the area. Sociologically, the dual cultural systems of the Negro and white populations are pointed out as the most important feature of…

Findings are presented of a four-year study on reaching rural disadvantaged youth through an informal education program called the Arkansas Special Youth Project. The information provides a framework for expanding 4-H. Specific methods and techniques used in working with the disadvantaged are outlined and evaluated in terms of the resultant…

Developed and evaluated was an inservice education program for first grade teachers teaching an experimental program in science and social studies. The program, developed for use with disadvantaged Mexican-American children, was designed to promote language development. Achievement of children in experimental groups taught by teachers who had…

In 1967, several two-day institutes were held in Indiana for counselors of adult basic education students, and, in addition, a one-week residential institute for selected counselors who had attended a spring institute. Primary emphasis was on awareness of responsibility and understanding of the under-educated adult. Situational and Q-Sort tests…

This report is an evaluation of the College Discovery and Development (CDD) Program Prong II, operated jointly by the New York City Board of Education and by the City University of New York. This compensatory education program prepares disadvantaged students for college entrance and for success in college. The major purpose of this evaluation is…

In the spring of 1975, the High/Scope Productive Language Assessment Tasks (PLAT) were administered to virtually all second-grade and third-grade children at five centers, who had been enrolled in the Follow Through program since entering school; the PLAT was also administered to groups of non-Follow-Through children at four of five sites.…

This guide to federal government resources contains two major parts: (1) a set of descriptions of 38 federal programs that offer various types of resources for career education, and (2) a set of indices to help the practitioner use these programs. Indices include the following categories for each program: Program title, description, relationship…

This report describes the exemplary programs of ten open-door institutions participating in a project supported by the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education. The project aims at evaluating and refining programs for students who enter college as low achievers, students who have traditionally been discouraged from pursuing…

Two kinds of objections to bilingual education are examined in this paper. The philosophical objection questions whether the use of a foreign language in the U.S. educational system can be justified; the practical objection questions the usefulness of bilingual education in increasing educational achievement. Since misunderstandings about…

This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," is used schoolwide for 327 children in kindergarten through grade six, including bilingual and educationally disadvantaged children. Begun in 1966, the program uses a multimedia, multimethod approach to reading instruction that is based on individual diagnosis and prescription.…

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights conducted the Mexican American Education Study between 1969 and 1974. Drawn from the published and unpublished findings of this study, this report discusses the education of Mexican Americans in the 5 Southwestern states of Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas, where about 85 percent of all…

This paper identifies various key aspects of the history and administration of federal compensatory education, describes the problems and issues associated with these, and suggests some ways in which research might help further program goals. It is intended as a discussion paper designed to highlight some crucial target areas for a major study of…

Cause for alarm and need for remedial action is seen in the substantial and continuing increase in racial isolation in New York State schools. This cleavage which exists in other industrialized Northern states, border states and certain cities in the South is responsible for general social unrest as well as racial riots in the high schools. The…

This report describes the operation of the Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP) of New York State which is designed to support the screening, testing, counseling, tutoring, and teaching of New York State students who have attained a high school diplima or a New York State high school equivalency diploma, have the potential for the…

The Training Center for Community Programs prepared a report on the Mille Lacs (Chippewa) Reservation in Minnesota. Data for the report were from 2 separate sources: a survey conducted by the Training Center with the assistance of the Mille Lacs community action program (1967) and an attitudinal survey conducted by Victoria Holbert during 1969.…