The Wechsler Intelligence Scale For Children (WISC) and the Metropolitan Achievement Test (MAT) were administered to seventh graders in a New York City school located in a depressed area with a Negro population approaching 100 percent. Full scale and subtest scores were analyzed. A factor analysis of the WISC, MAT, and the two scales combined was…

There are three major stages in the development of public and private higher education in Connecticut. Stage 1 was the private college monopoly stage, started in 1701. Stage 2 was the coexistence period when public institutions were developed. Stage 3, 1950 to the present, is the paradox stage, with increasing competition plus increasing…

This volume consists of a series of technical reports on each of the individual test measures administered in both Years 1 and 2 of the Longitudinal Study of Disadvantaged Children and Their First School Experiences. Each report includes: (1) relevant background information concerning the task's purpose and related research findings; (2) general…

Two sets of multiple criterion dimensions were identified for use with disadvantaged adolescents who participated in youth-work training programs. One set was composed of five factors applicable to short-term "success" at program completion (e.g., "Training Program Adjustment"; "Social-Community Adjustment"). Six factors extracted from a matrix of…

This dissertation considered the experience of various groups that participated in the Job Corps both during and after their stay in Job Corps. Considerable differences were found between the various race/age and race/religion groups considered. All groups, however, received benefits in excess of costs, with the Benefit/Cost ratios found ranging…

The 1967 President's Crime Commission proposed the development of youth service bureaus, the concept and purpose of which were to provide needed services to youth rather than process them unnecessarily through the courts. As the Crime Commission Report provided no models for these bureaus, many types evolved. This study locates and describes…

This updated search of the ERIC system, "Dissertation Abstracts", and the journal literature yielded 69 documents which present guidance and counseling practices for particular use with minority and other disadvantaged elementary and secondary school students. (SD)

Although studies of verbal abstracting with the cultural-familial mentally retarded have demonstrated a deficit in the ability, the deficit may not be indicative of a basic cognitive deficit; rather, it may be due to a lack of experience with language of a higher conceptual nature. Several training strategies have been followed to overcome the…

Reviewed from an interdisciplinary viewpoint is the available literature on the mental health of Spanish speaking, Spanish surnammed (SSSS) individuals and communities in the United States. It is reported that over 9 million U.S. residents are of Spanish origin, that the SSSS are usually on the lowest rung of the socioeconomic ladder, that the…

Project GO (Generating Opportunities) established at Colorado State University in 1968, attempts to meet the academic and financial needs of financially disadvantaged students. This study was designed to produce comparative descriptive data on Project GO and regularly admitted CSU freshmen samples and to evaluate the efficiency of traditional…

Proposed is the assessment of learning potential through a test-train-retest paradigm in addition to the traditional intelligence test with mentally handicapped or disadvantaged children. Discussed is a rationale for the approach which posits that poor and/or nonwhite children do not have equal access to school-preparatory experiences though they…

The Career Opportunities Program (COP) involves eight county school systems in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia with on-the-job preparation of teacher aides while the latter work towards college degrees at Shepherd College. Aides receive educational preparation through specially designed practicums that emphasize materials and methods in a…

The available evidence suggests the MDTA-Institutional program should be revamped with more reliance on the private sector for production and delivery of institutional training. In his review of eleven studies of Federal manpower programs, O'Neill finds that the MDTA-Institutional program, the oldest of the Federal training approaches, has…

Minority access to higher education in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts falls short of its obligation by nearly 8,000 students. One barrier to minority student access is the location of the state colleges and community colleges, most of which are removed from urban centers where minority populations are concentrated. However extra effort,…

The purpose of this study was to evaluate a seven-week reading improvement course for Upward Bound students and to analyze select correlates of reading achievement. Sixty Upward Bound students attending a summer session at Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky, served as the sample. The subjects were randomly assigned to an experimental…