Home Start II of the Waterloo Community Schools, Iowa, is a program that attempts to remedy developmental lag in underprivileged preschool children by a multi-faceted approach. The program is described as to context, activities, staff, distinctive features, and equipment and material. Discussions are given of community involvement, costs, and…

A pretest in mathematics determined the starting point for low-income elementary school students in a three year Individually Prescribed Instruction (IPI) project, in which each student progressed through the IPI continuum of skills at his own rate as he proved his mastery of successive skills. The results of the first two years of this project…

This study examines the relative success of high-risk students during and subsequent to enrollment in Berea College. The study was designed to determine: (1) the nature of selected personal and educational characteristics; (2) the secondary school ranks; (3) the enrollment and graduation rates; (4) the dropout rates; (5) the academic dismissal and…

A 2-WEEK SUMMER INSTITUTE WAS CONDUCTED TO SERVE AS INSERVICE TRAINING FOR A GROUP OF 29 COUNSELORS IN EMPLOYMENT, TRADE, TECHNICAL, AND SCHOOL SETTINGS AS TO HOW THEY MIGHT BETTER SERVE DISADVANTAGED YOUTH THROUGH INDIVIDUAL AND JOINT ACTION PROJECTS. OPEN DISCUSSIONS WERE HELD AMONG THE PARTICIPANTS TO STIMULATE WORTHWHILE IDEAS IN THIS AREA,…

THE STUDY ATTEMPTED (1) TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT SOCIOECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED PUPILS AND TWO OTHER SOCIOECONOMIC GROUPS OF PUPILS IN SECONDARY SCHOOL GRADES PLACED A SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT CONNOTATIVE MEANING ON SELECTED WORDS AND PHRASES WHICH ARE OF IMPORTANCE TO VOCATIONAL EDUCATION IN AGRICULTURE, (2) TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT THE…

CLASSROOM OBSERVATIONS OF 38 HEADSTART TEACHERS, TAKEN ON FOUR OCCASIONS BY FOUR DIFFERENT OBSERVERS, WERE SCORED FOR SUCH CONTENT CHARACTERISTICS AS (1) AMOUNT AND KIND OF COMMUNICATION WITH THE CHILDREN, (2) STRESS ON OBEDIENCE OR INTELLECTUAL VALUES, AND (3) PHYSICAL-MOTOR SKILLS. THESE SCORES WERE COMPARED WITH THE CHILDREN'S INTELLECTUAL…

A pilot project implemented a role-model approach to job transition for disadvantaged cooperative home economics students in Tulsa and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. From 1974 through 1976, 21 students in four urban high schools were matched with role models on the job. Sixteen of these students retained their jobs. The matches included many different…

This bibliography contains 105 citations from professional journals covering the period 1964-1974. Articles are arranged alphabetically by author with an annotation defining purposes and conclusions for each. (MJ)

Evaluated with 198 grade 5 students, 94 of whom were classified as high socioeconomic status (SES) and 94 as low SES, were corrolaries of A.R. Jensen's distinction between Level I (associative learning) and Level II (conceptual learning) aspects of intelligence. (Author/DB)

Describes a six-week summer program in which a group of inner-city, high school graduates participated in activities designed to promote logical thinking. Four Piagetian tasks were used as pre- and post-tests and showed that the course promoted significant improvements in logical thought. (MLH)

Students in a New York City inner city junior high school were surveyed in 1976. Findings imply that substance abuse prevention programs will be enhanced by a focus on life-style commitment, rather than on such things as drug use per se. (Author)

A total of 146 disadvantaged preschool children were trained in 1 of 3 different types of fantasy activities. The effects of this training were evaluated over a variety of tasks measuring cognitive development and impulse control. (Author/JMB)

Maintains that radical changes in the labor market and living conditions create the need for curricular alternatives to existing educational opportunities for disadvantaged youth in the Federal Republic of Germany. Outlines an educational program for children and adolescents of the lower social strata devoting special attention to handicapped and…

Traces the progress of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge's (England) charity school movement in the early eighteenth century and its shift from promotion of catechistical instruction to putting children to work in workhouses that served to banish idleness and beggary. (GEA)

Although some of the Boston public schools enjoy good reputations, students at more typical Boston public schools, such as English High School, receive deficient educations. Boston must take actions to overcome the issues of equity that are crippling the achievement of its public high school students. (BJV)