Reported is an evaluation of a pilot study carried out by the South-Western City School District (Ohio) for the design of a full-scale demonstration tutorial program, under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title III. The specific aim of the program is the prevention of educational deprivation during the first five years of life. The use…

This is a study of four projects in New York City which were established with federal grants to offer library service to the disadvantaged in the area. The four programs studied are the Preschool Project of the Brooklyn Public Library, the Community Coordinator Project of the Brooklyn Public Library, the North Manhattan Project of the New York…

This document contains observations by library staff and interviews with members of the communities served about the Brooklyn Public Library preschool Project and the Queens Borough Public Library Operation Head Start. These two projects offer storybook and picture-book programs for preschool disadvantaged children and programs for their parents.…

This document contains observations of library staff and interviews with community members about the Brooklyn Public Library Community Coordinator Project and the New York Public Library North Manhattan Project. The Community Coordinator Project employs four professional librarians to take an active part in community institutions and organizations…

A teacher reports on the understanding to be gained by visits to the homes of disadvantaged students. Because many parents cannot and do not come to scheduled conferences at school, the teacher visited the families, in this case to explain the availability of a summer school program. This teacher found that the parents of culturally disadvantaged…

Recent regulations of the Commissioner of Education recognize the need for local school districts in the State of New York to extend existing programs or to develop new ones designed specifically to meet the needs of pupils who fail or underachieve. Guidance counselors contribute importantly to these programs. Some of these ongoing programs,…

Reported are findings of a longitudinal study on the differential effects of five preschool programs on comparable groups of 4-year-old disadvantaged children. Descriptions are given for the five preschool programs studied: the Bereiter-Engelmann program, which involves intensive oral drill in verbal and logical patterns; the Karnes Ameliorative…

A second year evaluation of the educational television series "Sesame Street consisted of a new study to determine the effect of the revised second year curriculum goals and a followup study to determine the effects of a second year of viewing Sesame Street and the effect of the program on children who entered school after viewing for one…

GRADES OR AGES: Teacher interns. SUBJECT MATTER: Teaching culturally disadvantaged youth. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The seven course topics are listed, as well as an introduction, the course prerequisite, course requirements, and a list of basic textbooks. The guide includes eight instructional modules. OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES:…

Although tutoring can be very helpful to disadvantaged students, as can preschool experiences, neither of them is fundamental. The fundamental job consists of a basic change in the character of the school system itself from a middle-class situation to a more representative one, and intensive teacher training programs aimed toward building teacher…

Differences among school children are typically measured by achievement, aptitude and/or intelligence tests. This study investigates the use of critical thinking tests to differentiate between schools of varying racial, economic, and "disadvantagement" factors; the latter being determined by Title I ESEA qualifications and U. S. Office of…

This study explores the travel experiences and fantasies of economically disadvantaged urban black youths in Boston. Responses of the subjects (12 to 17 year old boys) to questions in an interview served as data. The findings indicate that a wide range of places were visited, in terms of number and distance from the subjects' residences. There is…

This study investigated the degree of variation in the willingness to make inferences based on little information, the variation in accuracy of such inferences, and the relationship between willingness and accuracy of inferences and the race and social class of the subjects. The subjects were 140 fifth graders from six public schools in Atlanta,…

This study was designed to determine what relationship exists among race, the amount of financial aid awarded, and persistence in college. Thirty black and 30 white students from similar socio-economic backgrounds were matched on sex, aptitude (their SCAT scores), and high school class rank. Persistence was defined as those students who persisted…

The hard-to-employ, both urban and rural, share common characteristics of inadequate income, slum housing, inferior education, no medical attention, and lack of real job opportunities. The deficiencies dove-tail, and families are often afflicted with all. The picture may seem bleak, but there is optimism in reclamation of the so-called…