Contains an interview with R. C. Orem on what Montessori schools think about early reading for children from a disadvantaged background. (RB)

The exclusion of culturally disadvantaged students from the general classification of students with learning disabilities is questioned. (Author)

The authors hypothesize that the concreteness of the mode of item presentation would influence the subjects' performance on the Purdue Elementary Problem Solving Inventory. Results suggest that the variables of degree of disadvantage and ethnic background are sometimes more relevant than the mode in which the content is presented. (HMV)

There is considerable controversy as to why middle-class youngsters outperform lower-class youngsters on most measures of academic ability. This article examines the differences between two prominent views as to why this disparity exists. (Author/HMV)

Reprint from COUNCIL FOR BASIC EDUCATION BULLETIN," December 1968

Paper presented at joint meeting of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges and the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (November, 1968)

TITLE I FUNDS TO THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO PROVIDE COMPENSATORY EDUCATION FOR APPROXIMATELY ONE-FIFTH OF THE STUDENTS ENROLLED IN PUBLIC AND NON-PUBLIC SCHOOLS. EIGHTY-EIGHT PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICTS RECEIVE FUNDS FOR PROGRAMS WHICH AID IN REDUCING THE NUMBER OF DROPOUTS, IMPROVING READING, INCREASING MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE ACHIEVEMENT, BETTERING…

The bibliography on child neglect includes approximately 130 entries grouped under the following categories: general, prevention, identification, etiology, treatment, and sequelae. Within each category, articles appear in alphabetical order by author's name and usually include the title, date of publication, source, length, and an abstract. (LS)

The document is a report on the goals, activities, and consultant topics for a three-week vocational education workshop for 29 teachers of disadvantaged students in Baltimore. The workshop, in session five hours each day for lectures, discussion groups, consultant visits, and individual work sessions and conferences, had eight goals for teachers…

As a part of a Title III project, a program was initiated to provide disadvantaged kindergarten children with planned perceptual-motor training exercises. This study investigates the effects of that program on the perceptual development and academic readiness of a group of 76 such children. The exercises, derived from the Kephart developmental…

A word problem is more difficult to solve when the minimum number of different operations to reach the correct solution is large, when it is of a different type than a problem preceding it, when the indexed complexity of its most complex sentence is great, when there are a large number of words in the problem, and when a conversion of units (as…

This issue of the IRCD Bulletin is devoted to a bibliography on the emotional and social development of socially disadvantaged children. The bibliography should be viewed as a companion to a previous one (UD 007 841) in which the focus was on cognitive development, for both the cognitive and the affective aspects of development should be regarded…