This report describes a study of the present and future employment possibilities for the handicapped and disadvantaged in Northern Worcester County, Massachusetts. The report is divided into three sections: a) Career Education, b) Research Study, and c) Sampling. The first section introduces the principles of career education and their…

Intended for regular elementary and secondary teachers, the South Dakota curriculum guide presents motivating activities to stimulate speech development of under-communicating, gifted, experientially different, or average students. Suggested situations are reported to be coordinated with South Dakota literature, the best of children's literature,…

This study attempts to show that it is possible for inner-city schools to teach basic reading successfully. Various successful programs were studied in order to discover the factors the schools had in common. The study was conducted during the School Year 1970-71 and four successful schools served as the basis of this report. Two schools were in…

This Institute for Developmental Studies (IDS) program was established in 1958, and represented an attempt to study the inter-play of environment on psychological development, and to evolve and develop an enriched and stimulating school curriculum for socially disadvantaged children. Over the years, the IDS program has evolved into a comprehensive…

Project Opportunity is a talent search and encouragement program that attempts to identify disadvantaged students with academic potential. The purposes of the program are: (1) to increase their academic achievement; (2) decrease the dropout rate; (3) increase the number continuing in higher education; (4) augment their knowledge of vocational…

A 2-year-project with 48 disadvantaged (D) and 48 middle class (P) Israeli 2-year-olds was set up to study how heterogeneous or homogeneous grouping influences social interaction. Twenty-four D's were the homogeneous group, 48 P's and 24 D's were equally divided into three heterogeneous groups with a ratio of 2:1. This report is based on an…

This comparative study of inner city with non-inner city teacher behaviors represents an initial attempt at a comparative analysis of two teaching models, and provides a means of identifying like and different behaviors. Descriptions of teaching acts occurring in inner city schools were obtained and independent judgments were made about the…

Written by a cerebral palsied man with severe speech and physical handicaps, the fictional account reveals the poverty, attitudes, cultural mores, and problems of a large working class family in Dublin. The narrator of the autobiographically-based novel is cerebral palsied although the handicap is only treated incidentally throughout the book. The…

This report of a March 1970 conference on student development in community colleges includes the papers presented and the major points of discussion that followed each presentation. Speakers focused on the present situation, but kept an eye to the future. Among the topics considered were: some student characteristics and their implications for…

This book describes and evaluates a 12-month postgraduate program to develop better leadership in urban elementary schools in disadvantaged neighborhoods. Chapter 1 on the program describes 1) procedures for recruiting the 15 fellows (who already had a master's degree and at least 3 years of teaching experience); 2) goals and components of the…

This experimental study investigates differences between a game approach and a programmed learning approach in teaching three listening comprehension skills (negation, exclusion, joint denial) to a total of 13 4- or 5-year-old Head Start children. It was hypothesized that (1) manipulation and novelty of reward would influence children to choose an…

The Southern Regional Education Board's Institute for Higher Educational Opportunity asked the presidents of 337 predominantly white colleges and universities in 14 southern states to describe innovative programs which their institutions had developed to assist minority students, and particularly Black students, to enroll and to succeed. They were…

The project provided out-of-school Neighborhood Youth Corps enrollees and selected manpower trainees with a program of work and special enrichment services (i.e., remedial education, individual tutoring, personal counseling) as a means of qualifying them for college entrance and linking manpower development to the public college system of a major…

In order to answer questions about the impact of desegregation upon the academic achievement and attitude of pupils and reactions of teachers, parents, and the community, longitudinal evaluation plans were adopted. The primary subjects were the 10,981 pupils who ranged from kindergarten through grade 8 in September 1967, at the start of complete…

This paper is a report of an evaluation study conducted on Michigan's State-funded compensatory education program. For the 1971-72 school year, the legislature appropriated $22,500,000 in an effort to raise the achievement levels of disadvantaged children in reading and mathematics. Approximately 112,000 kindergarten through sixth grade pupils in…