The 1969-1970 report to the Bureau of Indian Affairs contains information relative to the contract of the State of Idaho with the United States Government for Johnson-O'Malley (JOM) funds to educate the American Indians in Idaho. The financial and statistical figures are from information presented by the 14 school districts and from files of the…

This book gives detailed reports on twenty-five projects in teacher training, specifically designed to prepare teachers for teaching disadvantaged children. These reports give a comprehensive mixture of local problems and their solutions which can provide patterns or models for problems in any area. Part I describes the projects in terms of their…

The alternative suggested is comprised of three elements: 1) Working toward changes in attitudes of people and institutions to directly attack discriminatory applications of tests; 2) Emphasizing test validation and development by new test instruments oriented to the needs of disadvantaged applicants; and, 3) Eliminating discriminatory selection…

Do we control tests, or do these instruments of measurement control us? Standard scores, percentiles, norms, standard deviations and other elements of measurement can assist the educative process or degenerate into mechanical crutches. There is general consensus among most educators that learning is a multifactor experience involving, among other…

Two forms of a mathematics achievement test were developed for use in the evaluation of an experimental instructional program at the seventh grade level. Subjects were drawn primarily from minority groups at three urban junior high schools; all were of approximately normal scholastic aptitude, but one year or more behind their peers in mathematics…

These hearings before the Senate Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity focusing on "San Francisco and Berkeley, California" are organized in two parts. The contents of Part 9A include all of the statements by educational administrators, teachers, and students; as well as by representatives of involved minority communities and…

The "elitist" tradition of American education was found out in the 1960's. Not until a social force quite alien to the profession took hold and a revolution was declared, was the system of education called to task. In education, the response generated a spate of books that examined the many inequities, recommending remedies. Some of these studies…

This tipsheet reports that the first series of books written especially to help prepare teachers of minorities and the disadvantaged were general books of readings. Among these is "The Disadvantaged Learner" by Staten Webster. Over 600 pages in length, it is loosely organized around three themes: knowing the disadvantaged, understanding the…

Only within the past decade have the special problems of socially, economically, and culturally different urban youth received some of the special attention that is needed. The wide range of guidance and counseling efforts directed toward problems of urban youth are covered in this volume of reprints from American Personnel and Guidance…

This report is the latest in a series prepared for the International Conference on Public Education that has been held since 1934 in Geneva, Switzerland, under the auspices of the International Bureau of Education, which is now a part of UNESCO. In Part I the focus is on the special educational needs of and Federal programs of assistance to…

This paper reports on changes in students' study habits and attitudes during the Prep Program at Shippensburg State College. Fifty students, 40 black and ten white, were selected for the program for high-risk minority group students, and granted admission to Shippensburg for the Fall of 1970. The Prep students spent six weeks on the Shippensburg…

The first year of RFD, a new mass media approach to reaching rural adults in their own home, was devoted to planning and preparation. The design, consisting of a unique new television series, specially prepared and selected home-study materials, and a home visit program by adult basic education para-professionals, is complete. During the project…

LEREC (Learning English as a Second Language through Recreation) is a plan to make use of summer recreation projects in northern Canadian communities for developing children's fluency in English, the language of instruction in schools. This report explains the LEREC concept, defines the linguistic objectives, suggests a balanced program of…

The major objective of this study was to evaluate the operation and impact of the national educational program for disadvantaged children authorized by ESEA Title I in terms of criteria set down by the original enacting legislation and elucidated in associated regulations. The program's administrative structure and authorizing legislation were…

This is more than a case study of a single school; it is an analysis, normative in character but based upon fact, of the conditions of slum schooling in the United States. What it means to go to a slum school and to be a black child is made clear, as is why the achievement of minority children in school is low. As a participant-observer, the…