This report presents the results of a study from July 1965 to July 1969 on the effects of year-long prekindergarten programs for disadvantaged children involving eight school districts in New York State and approximately 1,800 children. The study focused on factors which the schools considered important and major objectives of their programs.…

Fifteen reviews of conference reports, research and demonstration projects, and surveys pertain to the need for and applicability of vocational education for the disadvantaged in general, and specifically for disadvantaged adults and youth, and the handicapped. "Plain Talk," a continuing column by the editor, discusses the need for vocational…

The purpose of this study was to determine (1) whether disadvantaged children using the Peabody Language Development Kit (PLDK) language lessons for 7 months performed significantly better on tests of intelligence, reading, listening, and writing than did similar children not experiencing these lessons, and (2) whether the performance of boys…

Proposed is the development of an ecology curriculum at the secondary school level by home economics instructors in conjunction with teachers in biology, health, social science, etc. To combat the decline in enrollment in home economics and the complaint of irrelevance of traditional cooking and sewing courses, home economics teachers are urged to…

The first section of this document relates information useful to high school students who are interested in going to college, such as the reasons for going or not going, applying for admission, and financial aid. This section also includes titles of other related books. Section 2 lists colleges by state that have many black students. Section 3…

The College Opportunity Grant (COG) program was established by the California legislature in 1968 and was intended to provide monetary grants to financially needy students, primarily from ethnic minorities, to assist them while attending college. This paper contains: (1) a side-by-side description of the characteristics of the 1969 and 1970…

An investigation of response associations to 100 structural and lexical words was conducted in such a way as to observe commonalities of responses to the words, effects of sex differences on the commonalities, and effects of word learnability on the commonalities. Subjects were 80 white urban disadvantaged children, all 5 years old, divided into…

Natural and honest ways must be found to motivate disadvantaged students for second-dialect and second-language learning. Young children, actors, and foreigners seem to learn new dialects and languages easily because they have a strong motivation as a part of their environments. In order to motivate students, we must take into consideration the…

The author discusses fields of inquiry important to the planners of teacher-preparation programs because they have some sort of help to offer the teacher of Standard English as a Second Dialect. Linguistics describes the student's home language, shows the teacher what needs to be noticed about the target dialect, and how that feature of the…

The present language study, carried out by the University of Victoria and the Department of Indian Affairs during the summer of 1968, was based on the Deutsch "cumulative deficit hypothesis." (This theory has as one of its bases the idea that the lack of appropriate language stimulation in early home and school life makes success in…

The New York City Board of Education's College Bound Program was established in 1967 to prepare deprived high school students for eventual college entrance. By 1968 the program had enrolled 6,000 students from 26 high schools to receive special assistance in their academic work. Almost 100 nearby colleges and universities have worked closely with…

Six bulletins which were developed for teachers as a part of a research and curriculum development project to improve the teaching of migratory pupils are presented in this document. Conclusions about the education of migrant students, characteristics of the disadvantaged child, improving the migratory child's self-image, helping the migratory…

This pamphlet notes the commitment of the National Education Association (NEA) to human rights and equal opportunity. Briefly presented are several programs and activities of NEA in these areas. A bibliography of relevant NEA publications is included. (NH)

Strengthening and changing the curriculum to meet the needs of the inner-city child must be done by recognizing both the cultural aspects of the child's environment and the actual problems that he faces rather than by imposing traditional middle-class values, activities, and language. Steps suggested to both the teacher and the parent for…

White children in our White-dominant society come early to feel that their skin color is the accepted one. If children are to have attitudes and behavior different from the general culture, they will have to be reared in a subculture of equality at home. Children should see their parents acting towards Blacks as they see them acting towards…