Intended as a supplementary reading book for elementary level Navaho children, this book is one of a series being developed by the Navaho Curriculum Center in Rough Rock, Arizona. This volume contains a collection of 14 illustrated coyote stories collected from Navaho storytellers and translated into English. These stories have great significance…

The objectives of this study were to determine the strength and importance of the relationships among features of oral and written language proficiency and their accompanying thought processes, and to dimensionalize variables that may be manipulated to assist development of disadvantaged children. Test scores from measures of language/thinking…

The research described in this paper is concerned with conceptual learning in disadvantaged children. The various studies discussed were concerned with the current learning capacity of the subjects. The tasks presented consisted of inductive concept problems. Subjects were provided with various experiences and the effects of these procedures on…

An experiment using an analysis of the distinctive features of lower case letters of the English alphabet to predict high- and low-confusible alternates for each letter was reported. Ten disadvantaged 5-year-old Negro children served as their own controls, circling in booklets the letters seen after a 1-second presentation by memory drum. The…

This report describes a metalworker's training program conducted by the Lockheed-Georgia Company and funded by the Manpower Development Training Act (MDTA). The trainees ranged from ages 18 to 21, and were mainly comprised of school dropouts and minority group members (84 percent Negroes) with police records. Tests used to screen candidates are…

The California State Colleges at Fresno and Hayward were designated Project "Centers" for the operation of the project evaluated in this report. The "Centers" were authorized to develop experimental teacher education programs which would lead to more effective preparation for teaching disadvantaged children and youth. The…

This report evaluates a demonstration project attempted for the first time in New York City schools in 1969 which was designed to remediate absenteeism in the high schools. The project was to provide individualized attention and concentrated services for 16-year-old and older chronic absentees and their parents. Other objectives included the…

A six weeks training program was conducted for counselors, psychologists, and social workers to improve their understanding of the disadvantaged, their counseling skills, their information of college admissions, and their ability to identify and utilize positive forces in the environment. Two courses were held: advanced counseling theory and…

Designed to provide solutions to some of the problems related to measuring reading behavior, this publication explores some of the problems of test selection and usage which confront educators. Contents include "Reading Testing for Reading Evaluation" by Walter R. Hill, "Reading Tests and the Disadvantaged" by Thomas J. Fitzgibbon, "What Is…

In order to evaluate the effectiveness of three language development programs, 98 disadvantaged kindergarten children were grouped by sex, language background (English or English and Spanish), and language instruction (Distar, Peabody, or Standard) and were pretested and posttested on the School Readiness Survey (SRS), the Wepman Auditory…

When teaching composition to speakers of Black English, instructors should be aware of the dominance of oral expression in black culture and base the writing program on developing the students' present language abilities. The social value placed by inner-city blacks on oral expression is evident in the varying verbal contests carried out when…

The report (in working draft form) of the Connecticut Task Force on Identification of the Gifted and Talented discusses general systems and instruments of identification, identifying the academically gifted, identifying the disadvantaged gifted, and identifying special types of giftedness. Excerpts from Connecticut State Department of Eduation…

The purpose of this project was to determine if the present undergraduate and graduate reading curriculum at Kansas State College of Pittsburg (KSCP) should be revised to better prepare teachers to teach reading to rural disadvantaged youth in Southeast Kansas. A survey instrument was developed and sent to teachers who had attended KSCP within the…

Presented is the annual report (1972-73) of a Paterson, New Jersey, urban early childhood education project for culturally disadvantaged children from pre-kindergarten through grade 3. Noted is recognition of the porgram by the U.S. Office of Education as successful, cost effective, innovative, and exportable. Background information provided…

In every aspect of the educational systems of this country where inequalities are present--from the unequal distribution of economic resources to the exclusion of "exceptional children" from any educational program and the classification and misclassification of children--it has been the children of the poor who have universally borne the heaviest…