This annotated bibliography offers representative works from material for the development of teachers and children. It is organized under several categories significant to the teacher in the reading curricular sphere. The whole area of reading instruction is given attention as is the role of language development as an influence upon reading.…

These conference proceedings report the discussions of classroom teachers and university professors relating to the problems of teaching disadvantaged students. Topics treated were the inadequacies of teacher training, need for self-analysis during training, teaching of reading, grouping students for instruction, and the relation of the schools to…

This study attempts to estimate the federal resources required to fulfill the aspirations of Americans for post-secondary education and draws up 2 possible levels of support to be reached by 1976--one to meet the nation's minimum aspirations and one which is more likely to allow the poor to participate in post-secondary education. The report is…

This report describes the longitudinal research conducted in an early intervention program since 1966. The program is characterized by the use of paraprofessionals serving as home visitors and parent educators. Data collection has included measures of children's behavior and development, parent-child interactions, and parent variables such as…

Randomly selected fourth grade teachers completed the Peterson and Quay Behavior Problem Checklist on 304 inner city children classified according to their age at entry into kindergarten. Findings revealed that earlier entry age children (children who were comparatively young when they started school) scored highest on the conduct subtest of the…

The Department of Community Medicine of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine (New York City), in cooperation with the TelePrompTer Corporation and with funding from the Health Services and Mental Health Administration of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, has developed a bidirectional television system using coaxial cable which links…

In the study of the effectiveness of traditional methods of evaluation (high school GPA and SAT scores) and subjective methods of evaluation (self, peer, parent, counselor, and teacher perceptions) in predicting the academic performance of 47 disadvantaged college freshmen, traditional methods proved inadequate. Among the subjective methods, peer…

Disadvantaged preschool children directed in the role-enactment of imaginary stories were found to be superior to control children (who did not engage in role playing) on several measures of social and cognitive development. Fantasy play training resulted in a higher incidence of spontaneous sociodramatic play, higher scores on an interpersonal…

This annotated bibliography offers representative works from material for the development of teachers and children. It is organized under several categories significant to the teacher in the reading curricular sphere. The whole area of reading instruction is given attention as is the role of language development as an influence upon reading.…

This bibliography on compensatory early childhood education contains more than 4,000 citations, most of them from American sources. Books, journals, and papers presented at meetings are cited and a subject index is included. (SBT)

Because occupational training for the disadvantaged presents special problems for the educator, this study provides information on some of the needs of disadvantaged students. Data were collected by the Occupational Training Information System and the Oklahoma Research Coordinating Unit from the full time occupational students in the state. The…

The paper presents a review of research concerned with mathematics and the disadvantaged youth--both environmentally and academically disadvantaged (low achiever, slow learner, underachiever). It is concluded that: (1) in general, mobility has not been found to affect achievement significantly, (2) programed instruction materials do not produce…

The document is an intervention curriculum guide designed to facilitate the initial adjustment of disadvantaged Southeastern children to kindergarten or first grade. The major emphasis is on the teaching of language skills in combination with subject matter learning using a language-experience approach. This volume contains Lessons 1-16 of a…

This study examines the determinants of youth labor force participation, school activity, and employment rates. Nearly all the data came from the March 1967 Current Population Survey, both from survey results and from the individual data records collected in the survey. After records were obtained for 104,000 individuals, of whom 14,000 were…

The main objectives of this study were: (1) to determine the degree to which SAT scores and high school grades were effective in predicting the freshman grades of disadvantaged/minority students; (2) to examine the validity of these same predictor variables for subgroups of minority freshmen formed on the basis of sex, ethnic background and…