The results of this inquiry provide evidence that professional advances in education can be visibly demonstrated through programmatic research and development that produces useful educational products. The first opportunity to test the claim that important instructional outcomes may be reliably attained in a variety of school settings with a wide…

One of the twelve exemplary programs summarized in the Introduction to Right to Read's "Effective Reading Programs: Summaries of 222 Selected Programs" (CS001934), this program serves the students of an inner-city junior high school and has as its main thrust training teachers in a diagnostic-prescriptive approach to teaching reading and…

This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," serves 391 disadvantaged ninth- and tenth-grade students (about 20 percent are black) at eleven large city high schools in Phoenix. The program was begun in 1971 for students entering the ninth grade. By high school graduation, all students (excluding mentally handicapped and…

This study surveyed the extent of Special Educational Opportunity Programs (SEOP) for disadvantaged students among higher education institutions in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin, in an initial attempt to establish baseline data on the nature and range of SEOP activities. From the results of a questionnaire administered to both…

The development of a child psychiatric unit in a municipal, ghetto-located hospital is described. Initial problems and their solutions are discussed. Accepting the fact that the problems of the political scene and gross underfunding were uncontrollable, focus was put on devising a service comparable to those utilized by middle class populations. A…

Institutions of higher education will have to change themselves radically if they are seriously interested in instituting open admissions policies, and one of the biggest obstacles to creating a learning environment conducive to a new kind of student will be overcoming institutional pride in its own elitism. Students have traditionally entered the…

Cause for alarm and need for remedial action is seen in the substantial and continuing increase in racial isolation in New York State schools. This cleavage which exists in other industrialized Northern states, border states and certain cities in the South is responsible for general social unrest as well as racial riots in the high schools. The…

This report describes the operation of the Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP) of New York State which is designed to support the screening, testing, counseling, tutoring, and teaching of New York State students who have attained a high school diplima or a New York State high school equivalency diploma, have the potential for the…

When the psychologist serves Head Start, he must be a consultant to the whole Head Start organization, from top to bottom, director to children, and horizontally from potentially supportive agencies in the community to the Head Start staff, to the children and their parents. In the process of serving as a community psychologist, he will be called…

This study is the third in a series to assess the relationship between educational criteria other than grades and the Washington Pre-College (WPC) test battery. Five hundred and ninety-seven returned questionnaires from Seattle-area schools provided post-high school educational criteria to be correlated with WPC test scores and high school grades.…

This report the first of a 3-volume study, presents the findings and conclusions of Phase I of the Federal City College Research Project on the role of college-community relationships in urban higher education, planned as a 4-phase study. This report deals with: the background of Phase I; the approach and methods used; the principal findings of…

Identification is a learning process important to the development of self-concept and to the role behavior of an individual. This study investigated the degree of race and sex identification and preference in both black and white disadvantaged preschool children. The measurement instrument developed was a 96-item paired picture selection task…

An overall perspective is made of the disadvantaged child in relation to his education. Various personal and social characteristics of such a child are enumerated as well as what characteristics the teacher should have. The author names three primary needs of the disadvantaged child: cultural readiness, language readiness (both expressive and…

There are many barriers to equal access in higher education: finances, selective admissions policies, race, and geography. Though some intensive efforts have been made to recruit minority students, the situation is not much better now than it was 20 years ago. The American higher education system has grown rapidly, but the demands on education…

This study postulated that if contingency management techniques were used to supplement an instructional system in which efforts toward individualization were being made, disadvantaged students would be influenced to produce more, and a higher quality of, academic behaviors and more favorable attitudes toward academically relevant concepts than…