The purpose of this project was to identify the competencies necessary for vocational education teachers who serve Ohio's special needs students. This final report identifies the project objectives, describes the strategies implemented, and presents the results of the project. The major goals of the project were: (1) to involve three…

Despite recent efforts at compensatory education, thousands of children still go through first grade each year without learning to read. More often than not, these are children of the poor. The underlying assumption of this study is that the major attempt at educational compensation for disadvantaged children have failed because of fundamental…

In 1970, three studies were conducted for the Children's Television Workshop in the ghetto areas of Bedford Stuyvesant and East Harlem in New York City and Washington, D.C. The Bedford Stuyvesant study was designed to establish a reliable reading on the penetration of Sesame Street in low income areas and to determine whether or not the program…

The focus of this book is on improving reading instruction among disadvantaged minority groups through the language experience approach. Four chapters contain discussions of self-concept, the growth of self-concept, reading instruction and the disadvantaged, and adult literacy. The other 16 chapters consist of bibliographies on the heritage of…

Developed as part of a project designed to provide a synthesis of literature and practice relating to the career education of disadvantaged students, this paper, which is intended for administrators of local programs, identifies successful components of career education programs for the disadvantaged. Program descriptions were secured through a…

Equality of access to postsecondary study in Michigan is discussed in terms of the establishment of a system of higher education that would provide equity in terms of: (1) individual selection and support services, (2) student financial assistance options, and (3) institutional and programmatic articulation. A synthesis of several major past…

This report is the third technical report submitted to the U. S. Office of Education in connection with a study the overall purpose of which was to choose up to eight successful education programs serving underachieving, poor children and to design "Project Information Packages" for each of them. These Project Information Packages were to serve as…

This paper examined the performance of kindergarten and first grade children in an inner-city school during the first full year of the Primary Education Project (PEP) Quantification (early mathematics) curriculum. The curriculum was based on a hierarchically sequenced set of objectives and accompanying criterion-referenced placement and diagnostic…

This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," serves 1500 children from five elementary schools. Almost 100 percent of the children are black and come from an inner-city community in which family income is low, with 50 percent of the school children from welfare families. Children selected for this program show a deficit in…

After descriptions of some problems encountered by disadvantaged youths and some general services libraries can provide, specific guidelines for library services to young disadvantaged adults are given. These include services both inside and outside the library: the selection of staff to work with the young adults, cooperation between the library…

This paper briefly summarizes the findings of a study of the effects of the Follow Through Primary Education Project-Individually Prescribed Instruction (PEP-IPI) model. The project was designed to provide individualized instruction (with emphasis on perceptual and motor abilities, language concepts, classifying skills and reasoning abilities) to…

This study was intended as a follow-up evaluation of Project COPE, a Glassboro State College program designed to provide junior year elementary education students experience in teaching culturally disadvantaged children, and to motivate them to continue this type of teaching after graduation. The procedure involved testing and collecting survey…

This study contrasted the psycholinguistic abilities of good and poor readers from disadvantaged backgrounds after completion of the first grade, using the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities. It was predicted that disadvantaged children classified as poor readers would be significantly inferior to those identified as good readers on…

The Cooperative Reading Project's purpose was to examine the relative effectiveness of three approaches to the teaching of beginning reading and the effectiveness of oral stimulation. This monograph reports the results of the last year of the project. The experimental reading treatments were: (1) the Initial Teaching Alphabet (ITA), (2) the Words…

This study explores the relationship between access to higher education and the operation of New York State's programs of student financial aid. The first section presents a summary of the major trends affecting access to higher education. These trends include: increasing manpower needs; increasing college attendance not only of intellectually…