One of 52 theoretical papers on school crime and its relation to poverty, this chapter states that the problem of school crime is not a school problem, but a cultural problem manifesting itself in schools. The cultural shifts of the last generation are creating adolescent needs that schools were never organized to deal with, and, therefore,…

One of 52 theoretical papers on school crime and its relation to poverty, this chapter examines the relationship between the major goal of affective educational programs--improved student self-esteem--and school crime. The author believes that by focusing on the whole person, not just the cognitive domain, schools can have an impact on the school…

Both administratively and in terms of their evaluations, Head Start and Follow Through have been treated as separate programs. Follow Through was initially conceived, however, as an effort to preserve and augment Head Start gains. In this report, achievement test data on a set of children who participated in both Head Start and Follow Through are…

This working paper was prepared by the Council of Europe Programme Adviser for Pre-School Education for a symposium on "the integration of migrant children into pre-school education". The symposium aimed to identify and suggest appropriate pedagogical measures which should be taken to facilitate and improve the integration of migrant…

This segment of the national evaluation study of the Follow Through Planned Variation Model presents background information and discusses the evaluation of the progress of Cohort III entering-kindergarten children during 4 years of Follow Through participation. Also discussed, for the purpose of examining replicability of effects, is the progress…

The life science curriculum is designed to promote the development of healthy living habits. Emphasis is placed on problems of major concern in the daily life of students and on significant problems in modern society. The curriculum is designed for students enrolled in the coordinated vocational education and training for disadvantaged and…

The Dale Avenue Early Childhood Education Project was developed in the Dale Avenue School in Paterson, New Jersey through funding the Elementary Secondary Education Act Title III. The Project was validated in 1973 by the standards and guidelines of the U.S. Office of Education as innovative, successful, cost effective, and exportable. As a result,…

This document, presenting a statewide racial and ethnic survey by determining the distribution and composition of student enrollments and school personnel in local districts, is said to represent the most comprehensive effort attempted by Oregon's Title IV Unit, whose purpose is said to lie in improving the quality of services to target clients,…

Large urban school districts are considered by most people to be in serious trouble because they are unable to educate children in the inner city as well as the suburban districts have been able to educate theirs. Although the state assist these districts in many ways, it has not made a commitment to the development of a coordinated plan of…

This discussion about voucher education is based largely upon the model developed by Christopher Jencks and his associates. Its major features include: equal tuition grants to all children; compensatory grants to the disadvantaged child; tuition maximum equal to the voucher value in all eligible schools; no parental supplementation of vouchers…

The document presents an evaluation of: (1) consumer homemaking education programs in Illinois high schools and their role in helping economically disadvantaged youth in assuming the dual role of homemaker and wage earner, (2) strengths and weaknesses of these programs, and (3) current and projected needs of professional education programs and…

This pilot study investigated the projected long-term economic effects of using the Edison Responsive Environment (ERE) machine in teaching 3- and 4-year-old preschool children. The ERE can be programmed in a variety of ways (to talk , play games, read aloud, show pictures and take dictation). The program developed for this study had four phases:…

Self-teaching machines housed in trailer-classrooms were used for the third year to help 331 students in two Minneapolis Title I secondary schools improve their reading skills. A gain of one month or more in grade equivalents (using Gates-MacGinitie tests) for each month of attendance at the centers by at least 50 percent of the students was the…

This report contains tabulations of responses to a questionnaire sent to the persons in each state education agency responsible for coordinating the programs of Special Needs in Vocational Education. Each respondent was asked to identify one program serving Special Needs in his state. The questionnaire also asked whether the state had held a…

The stated purpose of this report is to locate the scattered pieces of information concerning adolescence and compensatory education in order to assess whether these pieces form any coherent pattern, and determine the possible implications of any such pattern for federal policy in education. Four principal sources of information were available for…