This report of a survey, undertaken by a Task Force of the National Council of Teachers of English, provides information on 190 independent and uncoordinated programs in language and reading for the disadvantaged (both rural and urban) throughout the United States. Part I describes the scope of the survey and the organization, operation, and major…

The last of a series of five reports, this annotated bibliography includes a short review of the specific sections in which the bibliographical listings are grouped. The 46 items listed are arranged in the following sections relating to the Job Corps programs: history and need; planning and program descriptions; administration; instruction…

School visits, school records, and direct contact were used to study dropouts and potential dropouts. Results indicated that the two groups were similar. Both had a high percentage with at least average ability; they were nonparticipants in school activities, tended not to like school, and felt that the schools were too large and had no interest…

What kinds of learning should be provided for a four- or five-year-old child who is beginning a school experience? First, he should have extended opportunity to explore the physical world. He should be helped to become increasingly sensitive to the world in which he lives. We want to provide full opportunity for doing and making. We want to…

This document, which contains sixteen reports, focuses on various aspects of the teaching of reading. Report topics are: individualized reading, language experiences in reading, beginning reading, readiness in reading, an approach using decoding, recognizing and stimulating reading interests, functional reading in the junior high school, study…

If education in America is to serve the needs of the individual, there must be a change in terms of what education is, who it serves, how it serves, and by what methodology it is conveyed. Community education is a concept of education that involves people. People have dignity, worth, and really count as individuals. Four rather broad general…

The Brookline Early Education Project (BEEP) has been initiated by the Public Schools of Brookline, Massachusetts to help parents provide an optimum learning environment for their children throughout the preschool years. Enrollment in BEEP begins at birth and the project provides educational and diagnostic services, including pediatric care. Each…

This study was an attempt to discover practical ways in which a preschool director can institute positive change in socioeconomically mixed child development centers. Twelve socioeconomically mixed and six unmixed preschool centers in rural, urban, and inner-city areas participated in the research. Data was collected on 48 teachers, 127 parents,…

Materials which relate to the activities of the Philadelphia Student Library Resources Project for the period July 1, 1972-June 30, 1973 are presented. The Project, which began with research into student library needs, use patterns, attitudes and resources has now moved to the stage of interagency planning, operation, and evaluation of programs…

Compensatory education funds permit local educational agencies (or school districts) to use a variety of highly specialized materials, resources, and training for the pupils and teachers in eligible schools. These special compensatory services (as individual projects) are systematically assigned on a pupil needs basis. Compensatory education…

The purpose of this program is to reduce dissimilarity between home and school for low-income children by renewing home-school linkage. The program is designed to achieve this goal by training, installing, and utilizing parents as linkage agents. Their functions include serving as sources of information about their children, as informants, as…

The ETS Matched Pictures test was used in the longitudinal study to measure children's comprehension of certain grammatical features, such as past and future tenses, negation and prepositions. The task materials for both I and II consist of a set of cards, with each card having a pair of black and white pictures. Both pictures in a pair contain…

The fixation task used in this study measures the amount of time a child fixates or looks at a given picture as it is repeated over six trials and then is followed by a novel picture on the seventh. Two series of slides were used. The first was a redundant nonsocial visual stimulus: six trials of a slide showing 20 chromatic straight lines and a…

The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test is well known and widely used in testing the verbal ability of young children. In the longitudinal study, the standard Peabody test booklet was used in Year 1. In Year 2, a special ETS adaptation of the first 60 items was used, in which there were redrawings of a number of the human pictures to present black…

The TAMA was designed specifically for the Longitudinal Study as a nonverbal test of general knowledge. The test requires the child to point to the correct picture among three alternatives in response to a question. The two practice items and 25 test items are printed on bound cards, mostly in black and white. Items can be classified as follows:…