This paper predicts three directions toward which educational research should focus in the future. First, education for the culturally disadvantaged needs new ideas that will produce effects of whose educational significance there can be no doubt. The group forces that Bronfenbrenner has described as being at the basis of Soviet methods of…

The purpose of this study was to analyze Puerto Rican response to the opportunities for higher education and to survey the prospects of recruiting more Puerto Ricans in "Educational Opportunity Fund Programs." Camden, New Jersey was chosen as a representative medium-sized city with a Puerto Rican Community. (JW)

This multifaceted, large-scale E and D project in Chicago is based on the much-emulated "hire now, train later" concept which has become a force in the Concentrated Employment Program. During the second year of operation, JOBS NOW was redesigned to become a four-component program, stressing brief (2 week) orientation for disadvantaged…

Three of the variables which counselors need to attend to in helping disadvantaged youth to consider occupations such as engineering are: (1) knowledge of opportunities; (2) knowledge of self; and (3) procedures related to entry. With regard to knowledge of opportunities, it is suggested that counselors' energies would be better spent in…

Most of America's newest college students are the white sons and daughters of blue collar workers who, because of increased college access, are often poor students academically as well as poor students financially. Colleges must be prepared to offer these students a new kind of learning experience to make freedom of access to college more than a…

The third year of a field test of the Individually Prescribed Instruction (IPI) program in two inner-city elementary schools is reported. The results of the Stanford Achievement Tests administered to IPI and Control children in grades two, four, and six showed that IPI students scored higher on one out of three subtests at grade four, on two out…

Early Childhood programs designed to promote improved language skills are assessed in terms of contrastive assumptions underlying a different vs. deficient point of view. Both positions are rejected as inadequate because of their lack of correspondence to both theory and reality, and an alternative theory of communicative competence is proposed.…

Three critical areas in academic planning are discussed. These areas are: (1) Modal Learning Programs; (2) Accountability Learning Systems; and (3) Non-Campus Degree Programs. Included in advantages of modal learning programs are: (1) an individualized, prescriptive approach to learning; (2) the breakdown of the wall between school and life; (3) a…

After training in a direct instructional program can teacher aides teach cognitive skills in reading and arithmetic as competently as do classroom teachers who have been similarly trained? The subjects in this investigation were part of the Englemann-Becker Follow Through Program, an academic program for disadvantaged children in the early…

Discussion of problems associated with designing instructional programs for rural, sparsely populated school districts is illustrated with examples of educational planning in Jefferson County, Florida. The county is characterized by a diminishing agrarian economy, poverty, a 75% black school enrollment, and educational disadvantagement. Factors to…

This document presents reports from the individual universities of Ontario on policies of undergraduate student aid and accessibility to the universities during the academic year 1969-70. In addition, it presents recommendations from the universities as to how student aid policies might be improved to increase equality of access. (HS)

Part of a series of various Model Programs which informs educators about successful ongoing programs, the booklet describes the Project Early Push in Buffalo, New York, a preschool program for disadvantaged 4-year-olds which has been operating since 1966. The program provides experiences which are basic to later reading success and which are…

Teachers should be concerned with the prevention of reading disabilities rather than emphasizing remediation. Many deprived children in our inner cities are deficient in areas necessary for successful learning. Characteristics of deprived, inner city children which cause learning problems are listening, speaking, experiences, mobility, immediate…

The media have been adapted to serve the administrative and curriculum structures of the present education system, instead of changing education to take advantage of the most effective means of communication today--television and radio. Television and radio must be used to enable the disadvantaged to communicate with the outside world,…

The establishment of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting makes possible vast improvements in the educational radio and television system in this country. The two crucial areas for communication are international communication and urban communication. In the urban ghettoes especially, old-fashioned education has left children frustrated and cut…