Describes a week-long library skills unit for disadvantaged high school students, noting that much of the success of the program rests in the use of a library usage game--in which students are pitted against the staff--at the end of the unit. Describes the game in detail. (GT)

Examines 70 Israeli elementary school teachers' attitudes about teaching scholastic, social, and personal values to advantaged and disadvantaged children. As hypothesized, teachers rated such instruction more necessary for disadvantaged than for advantaged children. Teachers' dogmatism scores correlated with attitudes about the need to teach…

Recounts research studies conducted with disadvantaged readers between 1967 and 1977. (TJ)

The Cooperative School and College Ability Test (SCAT) was found to be the best overall predictor of cumulative grade point average and success in professional education courses. (MM)

Discusses some of the many environmental factors which may affect a child's academic performance. (Author/RK)

Indices of item difficulty and item discrimination were analyzed for the items comprising the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised as obtained from a group of 142 subjects with Full Scale IQs below 96. Evidence indicates increase in the number of items on the WISC-R helped increase its internal validity. (Author)

Camping Unlimited for at-risk youth, which originally ran from 1969-76, was recently revived at Blue Star Camps (Hendersonville, North Carolina) with 150 youth from southern Florida. The one-week stay, funded by several partnerships and organized by youth programs in the home county, included all regular camp activities. Increased staff and…

Suggests that standardized testing does not serve low-socioeconomic status (SES) students, because they lack life experiences that provide a foundation for learning, noting that the current emphasis on standardized testing offers a rigid environment that does not allow low-SES students to excel. The paper discusses methods educators can use to…

Describes the design and construction of the Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy in West Las Vegas, a charter school for underprivileged children. Includes various project data. (EV)

Critiques the College Board's report, "Reaching the Top," suggesting that it is well-intentioned but wrong to those committed to public policies that are not based on race or ethnicity. Calls the report's ethnic categories stereotypical and imprecise, suggesting that it is rooted in an erroneous faith that schools are the solution to…

This study compared attitudes of 455 parents of children in either looping (with teachers who stay with a group of students for multiple years) or nonlooping settings. Looping parent responses were significantly more positive on such variables as student motivation and parent/student attitudes toward school. Low income and single parent families…

Reviews 26 studies that have investigated the impact of the personal-social responsibility model (RM), a physical activity program model, on underserved and/or at-risk youth since its inception. Results indicate that field research encompasses a wide range of approaches. However, the 26 studies enhance the theoretical and practical potential of RM…

James P. Comer, a distinguished Black child psychiatrist born of sharecropper parents, credits his family's values and continued support for his success in college. In 1968, Comer and his colleagues developed a school-based management team to help poor families and schools develop trust and mutual respect. The program is widely used in New Haven…

Disadvantaged youth should not be penalized for their economic status or stereotyped as unintelligent. Despite schools' best intentions, poor youngsters are underrepresented in gifted and talented education programs. This article shows what administrators and communities can do to ensure that highly able disadvantaged youth are included in…

Children who attended Head Start maintained educationally substantive gains in general cognitive and analytic ability, especially in comparison to children without preschool experience. (PCB)