Policies and practices associated with intra-district teacher transfers in urban school districts were examined, exploring the implications for educational equity of this aspect of teacher mobility. Human capital theory and the theory of internal labor markets and their institutional rules provided the primary theoretical focus of the research.…

In a few urban elementary schools, in-depth, literature-based discussions are taking place under the Junior Great Books Program. For years, Junior Great Books has been a program available to limited numbers of students in special settings. Beginning in 1993, funding from the Ameritech Foundation allowed the Great Books Foundation to support the…

The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions met to consider the largest program within the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title I, Helping Disadvantaged Children Meet High Standards. At this hearing, how Title I funds are spent, who they serve, and whether student performance is improving were topics discussed. After…

This paper examines results from the Prospects study--a research agenda that explored the federal Title I program's impact on the academic and socio-emotional development of disadvantaged children. The document focuses on the program's strengths and limitations, offering a brief review of educational research and highlighting what may or may not…

More than 190 prominent scholars, practitioners, educators, and policymakers gathered at ETS on October 20-21, 2004, to participate in a symposium dedicated to addressing achievement gaps for minority and socioeconomically disadvantaged students and English-language learners. This issue of "ETS Policy Notes" provides an overview of the…

The results of this study question the usefulness of the Draw-A-Man Test as a measure of intelligence for the bilingual child. (TO)

Reviewed is research the role of the nursery school in reducing the effects of social disadvantage in young children. (DB)

The Miami Linguistic Readers, which are comprised of 21 paperbound books grouped in 15 levels, concentrate on sounds and structure of standard American English for teaching linguistically handicapped or disadvantaged children before and during the teaching of basic reading skills. (MC)

After attending a rural compensatory preschool for 5 half days a week over 1 year, Australian aboriginal and white disadvantaged children, 5 to 6 years of age, showed substantial gains on tests of vocabulary, auditory association, grammtic closure, and operational thinking, and were later assessed in a followup study. (Author/MC)

Author commented on attitudes toward exceptional ability in our society versus those social attitudes that have previously worked against people known to be disadvantaged. (Author/RK)

The Senator from New Mexico describes the discrimination against native language and culture to which non-English speaking minority students have been subjected, summarizes Federal court action to date to improve their educational opportunities, and argues for a more thorough implementation of bilingual-bicultural education programs. (SF)

Perceptions of selected attitudes and values of disadvantaged inner-city black youth differed significantly between preprofessional teachers exposed to and not exposed to a self-instructional module on such attitudes and values. No significant differences existed between their perceptions of these attitudes and values and demographic variables or…

Internal-external control (IE) expectancies of disadvantaged Head Start children were compared with those of middle class children in one Montessori and two parent cooperative nursery schools using the Stephens-Delys Reinforcement Contingency Interview IE measure. Middle class groups had significantly higher internal control scores than Head Start…

No significant difference was found between the perceptual-motor performance of the white advantaged and disadvantaged children. The disadvantaged black children performed significantly more poorly than either of the white groups. Perceptual-motor proficiency was also examined in relation to sex, intelligence, visual discrimination, motivation,…