A book of original articles was prepared for use in preservice and inservice programs for teachers and in institutes focused specifically on the teaching of disadvantaged elementary school students. Stress is on teaching techniques, with practical suggestions offered for all curricular areas. There are chapters on the disadvantaged child and his…

This New York City school district educational project sought to produce changes in a positive direction in academic achievement, attitudes toward school, and educational and vocational aspirations of two groups of disadvantaged children. One group consisted of children from public and nonpublic schools who had difficulty in learning because of…

This publication is a collection of selected papers presented by participants in an adult education seminar, spring semester 1969, at Kansas State University. The focus of the seminar was on understanding the adult basic education programs. Papers covered topics such as student recruitment; adult dropouts; teaching techniques; adult learning…

This collection of essays scrutinizes needs in urban educational reform, and systematically analyzes curriculum, the urban school child, the language patterns of disadvantaged black children, teacher training, compensatory education, community control, and educational separatism. It is contended that the urban school should be redesigned to…

Intended for pre-camp preparation and in-camp studies, this test presents to the student a description of the daily community life at the Mohican School in the Out-of-Doors at Perrysville, Ohio. Assignments and study topics include (1) history, (2) creative expression with sketches and poetry, (3) botany, (4) birds, (5) soil, and (6) weather.…

The course of study contains a detailed, developmental outline for use by teachers of educable mentally retarded pupils in elementary school. It is noted that the course is intended to be supplemented by two other publications. Program purpose is given to include fostering adjustment to physical environment, responsible family membership, civic…

Outlined for teachers in scope and sequence charts is a basic curriculum for educable mentally retarded pupils in grades 1-12. Listed in scope and sequence charts for k-6 are the following subject skills to be covered in preprimary, primary, intermediate, and upper levels: communication skills of oral language, written language, reading,…

Because opportunities for active social roles are essential for adolescents to develop into socially responsible and competent adults, it seemed logical to devise a high school curriculum in which result-oriented investigation of real problems by the students plays a major part. To this end, a conference addressed itself to formulating the meaning…

En-route Criterion Levels (ECLs) are defined as decision rules for predicting pupil readiness to advance through an instructional sequence. This study investigated the validity of present ELCs in an individualized mathematics program and tested procedures for empirically determining optimal ECLs. Retest scores and subsequent progress were…

Lists Pennsylvania school districts that are currently offering minicourses. The courses are presented alphabetically by subject area, with school district information (names, addresses, and telephone numbers) being provided according to the number of weeks that each course is offered (4, 9, 12, or 18 weeks.) School districts listed have agreed to…

The conference, which brought together key leaders from other States to share their experiences with year-round education, focuses on key issues raised during an earlier national conference on the same subject. Some of the topics highlighting conference speeches were: year-round education in transition; analyses of quality education, living…

The papers contained in this volume are the result of nine seminars conducted during 1972 and the first half of 1973. One concern that dominates many papers is the preparation of individuals for the teaching role. O'Neill reports the evaluation results of a preservice program that maximizes the use of field experiences; Duffey discusses the…

The instrument described in this paper investigates the models used by subjects to divide their social universe into two mutually exclusive systems of interaction. This is done by means of motion picture films which portray three geometric figures in action and elicit stories about animated beings as they move in social space from informants. The…

Several sampling procedures for collecting observational data on student activities were studied in an effort to determine their relative efficiency. The setting was a fifth grade Individually Prescribed Instruction (IPI) mathematics class of thirty-three pupils. A criterion measure was obtained by cumulating the measurements obtained on the…

The feasibility and limitations of speaker adaptation in improving the performance of a "fixed" (speaker-independent) automatic speech recognition system were examined. A fixed vocabulary of 55 syllables is used in the recognition system which contains 11 stops and fricatives and five tense vowels. The results of an experiment on speaker…