This report presents an analysis of data used to evaluate Project CHILD (Curriculum to Heighten Intellectual and Language Development). The curriculum was designed for use with disadvantaged preschool children and was field tested in two schools in central Harlem, New York City. The objectives and methods of the curriculum, as well as background…

Published prior to the 1970 implementation of a Paterson, New Jersey, Title III early childhood program for 120 pre-kindergarten and 120 kindergarten aged disadvantaged children, the bulletin describes the school and student population, the evaluation procedure, differences between experimental and control groups, results of pretesting, the eight…

Described is an on-going 1970-71 urban early childhood education project serving 120 pre-kindergarten and 120 kindergarten culturally disadvantaged children in Paterson, New Jersey. Discussed are the program rationale based on the importance of preschool experience and the need for a model demonstration project. Purposes of the special project are…

Described is the third year of a Paterson, New Jersey, urban early childhood education project for disadvantaged children; and summarized are achievement data on entering third level (grade) children in 10 performance areas. Noted are revision and reordering of performance objectives, development of summary sheets for recording each child's…

Presented are approximately 75 reports from communities, states, and regions on activities stressed during the second National Action for Foster Children Week during April 1973. Described are functions of a national volunteer coordinating committee whose main purpose is seen to be stimulating formation of state andlocal Action committees to work…

A number of schemes have been devised in developing countries in recent years to provide both training and employment for out-of-school unemployed youth. There is a wide variety of views about the efficacy of such schemes, which are often regarded as being particularly costly. Although the real and opportunity costs of youth training and…

The full texts of invitational addresses given at the 1965 International Reading Association (IRA) Convention in Detroit, Michigan, by six recipients of IRA citation awards are presented. Gates suggests steps IRA should take to revive and redirect reading research. McCallister discusses the implications of the changing and expanding vocabulary of…

This report summarizes a 4-year effort to serve disadvantaged, high-risk students through appropriate college programs in the metropolitan St. Louis area. Project AHEAD (Associated Higher Education Assistance for the Disadvantaged) was aimed at the disadvantaged in an effort to find high-risk students in impoverished neighborhoods and provide them…

The contents of this report are organized in five parts, as follows. Part One, "Title I: The Cornerstone of Compensatory Education," is a discussion of Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act (PL 89-10): its purpose, the scope of Title I programs, the selection of target areas, aid to nonpublic school children, the…

This testimony concerning physical abuse of children proposes a definition of child abuse and neglect based on the inherent equal worth of all children and a belief in their equal social, economic, civil, and political rights. Child abuse or neglect is considered the responsibility of individuals, institutions, and society as a whole with the…

A summer project designed to teach reading readiness skills to disadvantaged preschoolers is described. Thirty five five-year-olds attended the program three hours a day, five days a week, for six weeks. The Vanguard Instructional Model used involved contingency management, individualized instructional materials and the extensive use of student…

This conference explored ways to improve mathematics education for inner-city schools. Five position papers, together with summaries of the discussions of these papers by conference participants, are contained in this report. Topics range over types of pre- and in-service teacher training, laboratories and materials for the inner-city school, and…

This study describes the development of a technique to help the pre-school teacher create an environment in which a large group of children can learn and to be an effective mediator between the environment and the interests and abilities of each child. Teachers were trained to rate children in terms of observational categories, to help them…

This government document contains a compilation of legislation on Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965; it also contains the 1966, 1967, and 1970 amendments. In addition, General provisions under Title III of Public Law 81-874 are included. Title I is particularly concerned with financial assistance to local educational…

This social history of public education in Chicago focuses on the problems encountered and the subsequent changes that took place. The transformation of the frontier schools to accommodate industrialization is traced. The unionization and organization of Chicago teachers are shown. The political, racial, and financial problems that now face…