Central Washington State College has established a project concerned with the education of migrant and Indian children, with special emphasis on teacher education. The project Center is located on reservation land owned by the Yakima Indian Nation, and students participating in the program will live in the area for 32 weeks of course study and…

This research study was designed to determine the effect of exposure to cultural-social-economic diversity on selected attitudes of elementary school teachers by investigating the effects on teacher tolerance and optimism of exposure to 1) the usual classroom situation and 2) an inservice training program. The research was conducted as a field…

The causes of reading problems were studied in order to plan and implement reading programs for their prevention and correction. Some of the environmental causes related to socioeconomic disadvantagement which were discussed are distracting family problems, frequent moving, and few educational-related activities in the home. The family life is…

During its first year, this project placed 54 professors from 16 Mississippi senior colleges as paid team consultants in 27 elementary and secondary classrooms. Each three-member team was composed of a teacher and two professors from different colleges. The professors observed, assisted, and tutored classes which included disadvantaged children, a…

The focus of this publication is on the creation of learning facilities for two-, three-, and four-year-old children. This volume illustrates graphically (1) 11 new centers that were specifically constructed for early education, and (2) old facilities--houses, storefronts, and warehouses--that have been successfully remodeled to provide early…

The purpose of this study was to identify the differences between students who profit from compensatory education programs and those who do not. The study looked at family systems, family interactions, and individual children's behavior from a point of view that subsumes cognitive and communicational style variables which differ from the framework…

This study shows that there is a positive correlation between self esteem and academic achievement for inner city black children. Seventy-eight grade 6 black students were divided into the following categories: upper one-third and lower third based on intelligence test scores, standardized reading test scores, and grade point average (GPA) from…

A semantic differential based on three factors: evaluation, potency, and activity was administered to 278 freshmen in 11 communications sections at a state college to study attitudes toward selected college related stimuli (Black students, professors, Glassboro State College, Afro-American courses, white students, me-myself). Students were…

The Responsive Model Program uses the typing or learning booth as an important part of its autotelic (self-rewarding) environment, to help children develop the mental processes involved in discovery of relationships, such as the association of sound with symbols, or discovering the rules of a game. The typing booth also helps children to develop…

The Perry Preschool Project, for educable mentally retarded 3- and 4-year-olds from disadvantaged homes is described. This program uses a cognitively oriented curriculum (based on Piagetian theory) designed to help the child construct the mental representations of himself and his environment that will lead to the development of logical modes of…

The objectives of this study were to determine: (1) whether or not cognitive processes differ between advantaged and disadvantaged groups; (2) the capacity of pupil response to measure cognitive ability as compared to measurements of cognitive processes depending on verbal ability and environment; (3) whether pupil response can predict future…

Volunteer reading aides in the District of Columbia became aware of certain inadequacies suffered by the children with whom they worked. The children had no books of their own, school libraries were inadequate and sometimes nonexistent, public libraries were not easily accessible to the children, etc., etc. A proposal made by one of the…

In conjunction with the regular 1970 summer session, Santa Barbara City College (SBCC) sponsored a developmental program for disadvantaged minority students. Fifty-two students participated, 34 financially supported by the Neighborhood Youth Corps, and 18 others with similar backgrounds and characteristics. The minority students were enrolled in…

This paper describes the evolution of the Children's Television Workshop, which was originally suggested in a study made by Joan Ganz Cooney for the Carnegie Corporation, and which was responsible for the development and production of the daily, 1-hour educational program, "Sesame Street:" As envisioned in the Carnegie proposal, the…

A comparative study was undertaken of the self perceptions of disadvantaged children with those of advantaged children in grades four to eight. Each child's self concept, ideal concepts, and reflected values were measured. The result from an analysis of variance design, indicated more positive self images on all measures for disadvantaged children…