This document presents an evaluation of the 1973-74 ESEA Title 1 funded Issaquah Re-entry Program, providing continuing educational opportunities for divergent youth who had dropped out of regular secondary schools in their area. Program objectives consisted of specifications of problems to be overcome and their possible solutions. Among…

This book contains 65 specific activities designed to help disadvantaged students learn to use language more skillfully and develop the ability to function well in the school environment. The descriptions of the activities are referred to as shoe box labs and generally include the title of the activity, instructions for performing the activity,…

This report describes and interprets the reading achievement rates of Title I participants over a period of six years beginning with the school year 1968-69. The primary data source consisted of 283 ESEA Title I evaluation reports for the years 1969-1974, supplemented by information from the state Title I offices. From pretest and posttest data…

Reviewed in terms of a concept analysis is the literature on child abuse, and presented is an annotated bibliography of approximately 550 journal articles, 18 books, 6 dissertations, and 40 pamphlets on child abuse. Briefly reviewed is the historical context of child abuse. A concept analysis of child abuse is offered which suggests that any…

This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," serves 391 children from preschool through grade 6. The students are largely disadvantaged, and some are physically handicapped an/or mentally retarded. The program is designed to improve students' reading skills and attitudes toward reading, to improve teachers' ability to…

This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," serves 1,200 students in K-5 at three elementary schools. Most of the students are black, live in the inner area of a large city, and come from low-income families. The program provides an opportunity for diagnostic treatment, remediation, motivation, and observation of each…

The bulletin is intended to assist local educational agency administrators in developing and/or strengthening and expanding occupational services for disadvantaged and handicapped persons as required by Federal and State legislation and outlined in the Illinois State plan. The publication opens with a discussion of the criteria for the…

The SEEK (Search for Education, Elevation, and Knowledge) Program at the City University of New York (CUNY) was designed to provide access to any senior college in the CUNY structure for a population that had previously been excluded. To be eligible for participation in the program, the student must be a resident of New York City and reside in one…

Provided are selected proceedings from the Conference on Exceptional Children at which minority educators and educators from the dominant society discussed the special educational needs of culturally and linguistically different children. One speaker offers suggestions for ways in which a knowledge of linguistics can be used to assess the…

Presented are reports of individual site visits and results of questionnaires describing nine child abuse and child neglect health-based programs located in Chicago, Denver, El Paso, Honolulu, Iowa City, Los Angeles, New York, Pittsburgh, and St. Paul. Included is information on funding, patient statistics, composition of teams, patient flow, cost…

This 38-item annotated bibliography lists publications of organizations and periodicals alphabetically by author. Topics include instructor and student manuals for studying visual language, visual literacy and remedial and developmental reading, films, audiovisual instruction, various aspects of visual literacy in the classroom, photography and…

One of the twelve exemplary programs summarized in the Introduction to Right to Read's "Effective Reading Programs: Summaries of 222 Selected Programs" (CS001934), this program serves first through fifth graders in four inner-city schools with an individualized reading program, emphasizing the decoding process in the primary grades, and…

This manual describes the special services program for disadvantaged students in higher education, ways in which individual projects can be implemented, and the procedures for making application to participate. The program, which was authorized under the Higher Education Amendments of 1968, is designed to increase the number of disadvantaged and…

This report contains the responses and comments of 100 deans of engineering colleges to a questionnaire pertaining to black students and engineering education. The questionnaire was divided in three parts. Part I requested information on the number of (1) freshmen, (2) seniors, and (3) total students in all engineering departments. Part II…

American society is obsessed with "credentials," much of it brought about by institutions of higher education. The proper credentials are those determined by Middle America, and those on the outside, the minorities, must accept these credentials and ways to obtain them before they are allowed "in.""Who should go to college?" is a Middle America…