Recommends a program of reading aloud to children to provide motivation and oral language experiences and shows statistically significant evidence of its success with 285 disadvantaged first graders. (MD)

Nineteen models for bilingual programs are presented, and reports on bilingual programs visited and assessed by the author are given. (FWB)

This report is a summary of a doctoral dissertation at the University of Oklahoma by the first author, under the direction of the second author. (RJ)

Presented at the 66th Annual Convention of the National Catholic Educational Association, Detroit, Michigan, April 7-10, 1969.

Describes a study in which preschool children, enrolled in a Head Start Program in Texas, tested computer-assisted instruction facilitating visual discrimination. The study, in which a TRS-80 Model III displayed alphabetical characters, showed that four-year-olds are able to learn simple visual discrimination tasks from a computer. (JJD)

Normative data collected on 197 disadvantaged high school dropouts on the dimension of internal-external control indicate this group appears to be external, but not markedly so. A short-term intervention program designed to improve academic and vocational skills did not appear to affect locus of control of 33 subjects. (Author/PN)

Multivariate analyses of questionnaires and standardized test data indicated that performance at age eight could be predicted with considerable accuracy by a combination of teachers' ratings of home and personal characteristics at age five. (Author/PN)