The Higher Education Achievement Program (HEAP) at Jefferson Community College (JCC) in Kentucky is designed to recruit 100 "nontraditional" students into the college and to help them to succeed with college-level work. For the 1974-75 academic year, this group included representation from such minorities as women, blacks, older…

A survey of California community colleges was conducted in order to ascertain what methods were being used to identify students for placement in freshman English courses, and what types of programs and services were being offered for entering students with reading and writing deficiencies. Of 100 colleges surveyed, 64 responded. There seems to be…

In contrast to middle colleges throughout the country which, by initiating early admissions programs, make it possible for high achieving students who have not completed high school to enter college, the Middle College at LaGuardia Community College (New York) includes students who are not academically superior and offers comprehensive remedial…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the comparative efficiency of three summer programs in helping junior high school boys increase their reading ability. The study compared the alternatives of methods typically used in remedial reading programs, a content area program, and one which simply provided personal reinforcement. Each sample…

The basic purpose of this project was to improve the reading achievement of educationally disadvantaged students, but improvement was also anticipated in the areas of self-reliance, feelings of self-worth, attitudes toward reading, and attendance. The 142 subjects (56 second graders, 50 third graders, and 36 fourth graders) attended one of the…

An ESEA/Title III program designed to expand services to remedial readers through the use of paraprofessional personnel is described. The greater part of the report explains the need for such a program, selection and training of paraprofessionals, materials, project implementation, parental involvement, and inservice training of the professional…

Evaluation of the 1960-70 program of a reading center originally begun in 1966 with ESEA/Title I funds was conducted for three purposes: (1) to determine the extent to which participation in the remedial and developmental program resulted in improved reading skills, (2) to discover trends in achievement gain as related to differing lengths of…

This study reports the impact of the Flint Community Junior College (Michigan) reading improvement program on 150 participating students in terms of general group and racial sub-group (black and white) performance. After the groups were compared according to race and ability for data-collecting purposes, pre- and post-test measurements were taken…

The Texarkana Dropout Prevention Program is an educational innovation in which (1) a private company was placed under contract to set up special, remedial instruction in the public schools, and (2) the company was to be paid according to the results produced under a performance contract. Dorsett Educational Systems operated six rapid learning…

A study of the amount of retention after 1 year of students who had participated in a Title-I remedial reading program is reported. The reading center program was comprised of the comprehensive diagnosis of learning problems followed by a reading skills program on a one-to-one relationship with a reading specialist. Psychological aspects were…

This study was undertaken to determine whether an oral-aural approach to remedial composition instruction for college students would be superior to the traditional grammar and rhetoric approach. For one semester, four classes of remedial writing at Jefferson College in Missouri served as experimental groups in which ideas and sound were stressed…

The respective roles of remedial, corrective, and developmental reading relative to the high school reading program are delineated. The following reasons for reluctance in introducing secondary reading programs are noted: (1) the shortage of trained people to organize the program, (2) the lack of adequate financing, (3) a limited view of the…

Greatest emphasis should be placed on the developmental and preventive aspects of the reading program, and the talents, skills, and responsibilities of the reading specialist should be redirected. At present too much time is spent by reading specialists in remediation work. To combat this and to work toward a total language arts program the author…

This report includes evaluations of four New York City school district educational projects funded under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. The Intensive Reading Program offered concentrated, individual reading instruction to needy open enrollment children as well as some indistrict pupils. The program's objectives…

This legislative document contains texts of a bill to amend certain Titles of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 and an Administration sponsored bill to consolidate certain categorical aid programs into revenue sharing. Also included is a transcript of the hearing in which the administration representatives presented their bill.…