NOTES BASED ON A 25-REFERENCE BIBLIOGRAPHY WHICH CONTAINED STUDIES ON MIGRANT FAMILIES AND PILOT PROJECTS ESTABLISHED TO AID MIGRANTS WERE PRESENTED. ONE STUDY FOUND THAT THE EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES OF MIGRANT CHILDREN INCLUDED RETARDATION AND FRUSTRATION. MIGRANT CHILDREN ENTERED SCHOOL LATE, WERE SLOW AND UNCERTAIN, HAD LANGUAGE DIFFICULTIES,…

THIS MANUAL FOR TEACHERS OF YOUNG EDUCATIONALLY DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN CONTAINS SPECIFIC DIRECTIONS FOR CONDUCTING NUMEROUS READING GAMES AND ACTIVITIES. IT OUTLINES ACTIVITIES FOR IMPROVING THE CHILD'S VOCABULARY, LISTENING POWER, PRONUNCIATION, SPELLING, AND OTHER READING READINESS SKILLS. (LB)

Technology can best be applied in the preparation of teachers for the ghetto by evaluating current practices in teacher training and by using the results of this evaluation in applied and basic research. Some acute problems facing teacher education for ghetto schools include language barriers, cultural gaps, and teacher career patterns. (SP)

The introduction to this paper overviews the project which was designed to provide the institute with contemporary, direct, and continuing feedback about basic issues and problems in teacher education for the disadvantaged. One page of information (gathered from proposals and from interim and final reports) is devoted to each of the 25 inter- and…

Seven papers which were presented at an Ohio State University postdoctoral seminar in 1964 on the subject of the problems of educational deprivation in depressed urban areas are offered. Major arguments and issues centering around whether educational deprivation can be attributed to inadequacies of teachers or to environmental factors include: the…

This fifty item questionnaire was designed to measure teachers' knowledge and attitudes towards the disadvantaged. The respondents are directed to read each statement and to select a response on a five point scale ranging from agreeing strongly to disagreeing strongly. Validity and other technical date is included. (MLP)

An organized community guidance program is needed to increase the number of disadvantaged students attending college. Some essential elements of the program are: communication between college and school counselors and key community persons and ongoing programs providing literature, speakers and special services geared to motivate and help…

Use of the term disadvantaged" to describe programs may be inflicting damage to students' reputation and create a future handicap for them. Suggests that change of name is needed. (SB)