A reading program to raise the achievement level of disadvantaged children is evaluated. The evaluation is intended to help Montgomery County Schools in determining the effectiveness of its Title I Program and to help the State Department of Education attain a view of Title I programs in Virginia so that both agencies can plan a more effective…

A collection of monographs concerning learning disabilities is presented. Subjects include a high school learning disabilities program, English curriculum development, evaluation philosophy, a traditional program, teacher created learning exercises, reading disability, student discussion, and language development. Discussions also concern…

Seven reading skill centers were established to focus on areas of need experienced by Philadelphia school children. Programs were individually prescribed, and children were assigned to materials and to center time depending on their individual needs. Coordination with classroom activities was provided as much as possible. Skill centers were set up…

Initiated in October 1966 by the Department of Defense, Project One Hundred Thousand accepts men who would not have qualified for military service under previous standards, and upgrades them medically and educationally. Major aims are to broaden opportunities for enlistment, equalize military service obligations, assure foresighted military…

Described is a training program to prepare teacher aides to tutor in a remedial reading program for children of low socioeconomic status. Instruction emphasized early childhood growth and development, visual motor perception training, language and auditory development, and emotional and social development. Trainee selection, the training program,…

The procedure for determining, by computer-programing, English sections according to test results at El Camino College, California, is described. El Camino College is a large community college in the Los Angeles area, admission to which is based solely on a high school diploma and residence in the district. As a result of entrance test scores on…

Harlem Preparatory School is an independent, nongraded, alternative school for young men and women who have either left high school before receiving a diploma, who wish to receive an academic diploma rather than a general or vocational diploma, or who wish to "recondition" their learning skills so that they may be better prepared to…

The results of the classroom observations of students during compensatory reading instruction are described. Sixty-three second-, fourth-, and sixth-grade classrooms across the country were observed using the Student Observation Scale. The scale is two-dimensional enabling an observer to code simultaneously two different aspects of an observed…

This address by the director of the Right to Read program presents a brief history of the effort, a discussion of the major goals, and a description of the means being used to reach these goals. The Right to Read program is an effort to insure that by 1980 no student will leave our schools without the skills of reading and writing. It is founded…

Presented are 19 research reports which apply the philosophy of the consulting teacher program at the University of Vermont to provide special education individualized services within regular classrooms for Junior and Senior High School Students with academic and behavioral problems. Included are an overview of the consulting teacher program and a…

Computer-based, criterion-referenced testing can be a humanizing process if it is used for diagnostic and remedial purposes in helping individual students to attain their maximum levels of achievement. The procedure is based upon the proposition that certain classroom situations involving cognitive acquisition, when tested at equally spaced time…

The long-term effects (after 3 to 5 years) of remedial reading instruction were examined. Comparison was made on reading achievement scores and on achievement ratios between a group of 16 former remedial reading clinic students, aged 12 to 20, and a matched group which did not receive remedial instruction. In addition, 45 former remedial readers…

The effects of a 10-weeks program in reading skills instruction or study skills instruction on culturally disadvantaged college freshmen in improving reading and academic performance were studied to identify optimum programs for particular students. Subjects were 60 entering freshmen scoring at or below the 30th percentile on the Iowa Silent…

The Job Advancement Training Program (JAT) was an experimental demonstration project to determine whether workers, employers, and community agencies would perceive value in and respond positively to non-skills training opportunities offered to workers during periods of temporary layoff, and also to determine if the training seemed to have…

Approximately 250 remedial lessons in auditory training for the elementary school child are presented for six major areas: auditory reception, auditory discrimination, auditory memory, auditory sequential memory, grammatic closure, and auditory association. The lessons are designed for the child who has adequate auditory sensitivity, but who does…