This manual has been prepared to provide operating guidelines for admissions officers, financial aid officers, and registrars. The systems described herein were designed specifically for the predominantly Negro colleges, but the procedures are applicable to other 4-year liberal arts colleges with the following general characteristics: (1) small to…

The research reported in this paper has three major purposes: to assess the development of racial attitudes in urban children, to evaluate the effects of race of examiner on children's expressed attitudes, and to examine some of the perceptual correlates of racial attitudes. It was predicted that older children would perceive faces of another race…

If our historic goals of individual opportunity and literacy are to be realized, contributions from all appropriate disciplines must be brought to focus in classroom language instruction. The organization and content of this book reflect this interdisciplinary point of view. A basic concern is to explore possible solutions to educational problems…

This bibliography and supplement on American ethnic writing provide extensive listings of materials by or about Afro-Americans, American Indians, Hispanic Americans, and Orientals. The areas covered are novels, biography, autobiography, poetry, drama, art, folklore, music, films, records, periodicals, anthologies, bibliographies, criticism,…

An attempt was made to distinguish between capacity and motivational interpretations of individual differences in children's creativity. Creativity tasks required the child to name as many ideas as he could that met a simple problem requirement. Tasks were given under "base line" conditions and with a reward of one cent for each idea given. If…

The Anglo-American Conference on Education for the Less Privileged was held recently in Oxfordshire, England. Fourteen representatives from the United States met with 11 British conferees. The purpose of the conference was to examine the present character and availability of education (preprimary to 18 years), including vocational and technical…

This paper reports an experimental evaluation of the effect of increased parental participation on the education of youngsters in a depressed area. There were four subject groups of children: 263 first graders in attendance during the 1966-67 school year, prior to the parent involvement program; 261 first graders attending during the experimental…

Because speech sound discrimination tests can be contaminated by a particular kind of "response set," i.e., the tendency not to respond to the final parts of words as effective stimuli, children can be mistakenly diagnosed as having very poor speech-sound discrimination. About 20 percent of urban lower-class children have this response…

This report, addressed to graduate students who intend to enter into field research in inner-city settings, details some of the personnel and community relations problems and logistical and financial challenges encountered by a research team, which undertook an evaluation of early education programs, basic research on child development, and social…

The Ypsilanti Perry Preschool Project was an experiment to assess the longitudinal effects of a 2-year preschool program designed to compensate for functional mental retardation found in some children from disadvantaged families. The program consisted of a daily cognitively oriented preschool program and home visits each week to involve mothers in…

The booklet, a report on state programs for education of migrant children under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, is divided into 7 chapters: "The Horror and the Hope,""Scenes Behind the Tarpaper,""Who They Are: The Parents,""Who They Are: The Children,""The Schools: The Challenge,""The Schools: Accepting the Challenge," and…

The Plus Program was designed to provide a maximum amount of remedial work in reading and mathematics for disadvantaged youth in grades 1-8. About 75 percent of the project pupils were black, 20 percent white, and 5 percent Puerto Rican. Specially trained teachers worked with small groups of students in programs designed to be corrective and…

The author, as former administrative head of Detroit Northern Systems Company, describes that company's successful approach to the training of the hard-core unemployed. The systems approach emphasizes the achievement of goals and sub-goals through an interplay of program components which include training lines of 'tool stations,' back-up classes…

This PROJECT DESIGN report, funded under ESEA Title III, assesses the special learner needs of Negro students and adults. Interviews were conducted with Negro residents of West Fresno as to the educational needs of the Negro population. The interviews focused on the day-to-day operation of the school system in relation to the following societal…

Arguments are advanced for the inclusion of Latin in predominantly black, inner-city junior and senior high schools. Discussion of Latin offerings in these schools centers on principal and administrator attitudes, teacher recruitment, and student interest. Ways in which Latin can contribute to English skills, professional training, college…