TO NARROW THE LANGUAGE SKILLS GAP BETWEEN DISADVANTAGED AND MIDDLE CLASS CHILDREN IS A PRIMARY AIM OF MOST INTERVENTION PROGRAMS, ACTING ON THE THEORY THAT INCREASED LANGUAGE COMMAND LEADS TO INCREASED ABILITY IN ABSTRACT THINKING. HOWEVER, THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LANGUAGE AS A COMMUNICATIVE PROCESS AND LANGUAGE AS AN INTELLECTIVE PROCESS.…

To determine characteristics of students and aspects of vocational education programs essential to the serving of youth with special needs in rural Ohio high schools, 154 ninth grade youths with special needs were compared with 169 other ninth grade students. Analysis of variance and coefficient of correlation "t" test and chi square…

The experiment studied the "relative effectiveness of tangible and social rewards upon the performance of a simple discrimination learning task by culturally disadvantaged children." Also assessed were the effects of the sex of the subjects (Ss) and the examiner. Ss were 144 five- and six-year old youngsters in a Georgia Head Start…

The current crisis in educating disadvantaged learners has forced a re-examination of the entire field of education and the ways in which the social behavior of the student and the content of his learning are dissonant. The traditional stress on the cognitive functions of education has resulted in a curriculum which is irrelevant for many…

The annotated bibliography contains approximately 90 citations (1972-1976) on early childhood programs for handicapped and disadvantaged children. Entries are arranged by accession number and usually include the following information: title, author, source, date, pagination, availability (including Educational Resources Information Center number…

Current research has indicated that one of the disadvantaged child's handicaps is a poor self-concept, which is generally reflected in an inability to adjust to the school's middle class setting and which results, in many cases, in educational disadvantage. In modern educational dance, the body is used both as a means of expression and as a…

Using a regression analysis technique, the authors produced a profile of clients, many of whom are Mexican-American, of the East Los Angeles Youth Training and Employment Project (YTEP), in an attempt to correlate YTEP participation with probable later success. In addition to data from an earlier Rand survey of 7,659 clients, YTEP collected…

The discussion of child neglect considers the following topics: definition, prevalence, etiology, identification and case finding, sequelae, prevention, and treatment. The differences between child neglect and child abuse and between the legal and professional definitions of child neglect are pointed out, and an operational definition is provided.…

The report briefly describes a project to develop career orientation materials for special needs students--disadvantaged and educable mentally handicapped (EMH)--at the junior and senior high school levels in North Dakota. The activities involved in selecting the career areas are briefly discussed. By polling various students in different parts of…

The Picture Word Game, a nonverbal test of the ability to use language-related symbols, was administered to 90 low-income urban students in grades 1 through 5. Ss were trained in one class period and then tested in class size groups within 2 days. In addition, previous scores on the Stanford Paragraph Meaning and Vocabulary Subtests were obtained…

This report provides information on the students who have enrolled in the Educational Opportunity Fund (EOF) program at 40 institutions of higher education in New Jersey for the academic years 1968-69 and 1969-70. The purpose of the EOF is to provide scholarship assistance to educationally and economically disadvantaged youth who might otherwise…

Elementary principals are encouraged to take active roles in furthering the "right-to-read" effort. Because they are in positions which allow them to determine school character and activities, they should provide leadership within their communities and contribute to the national effort. The establishment of federal offices to administer the…

Included are papers presented at the 1969 University of Illinois Colloquium on the Preparation of Teacher Educators in Mathematics. The first paper, "On the Preparation of the Teacher of Teachers" by B. Othanel Smith, examines the prominence of research in the teacher training programs. The second, "Source and Supply of Leadership in Mathematics…

This report contains a discussion of a classification and attention training program for Head Start children. Chapter One presents the theoretical background of the project, which is based on Piaget's model of attention and classification. The methods used in the program are explained in Chapter Two. The next chapter discusses curriculum…

The historical, political and economic climate in the mid-1960's was ripe for a head-on collision between two conflicting ideologies. On the one hand, there was President Johnson's War on Poverty. The Head Start summer programs were begun in late 1964 as the archetype of the hope to improve the lives of the poor. On the other hand, was the…