This report of three conferences (held on July 8, 1967) conducted in conjunction with the Appalachia Cooperative Program in Teacher Education begins with an introduction plus an orientation to and a description of the Appalachia Area Project. Included for each conference are an outline of conference objectives, papers presented, and a summary of…

The recruitment and training of competent teachers for Spanish-speaking children is but one phase of the overall staffing problem facing schools nationally. Generally, the teacher shortage could be reduced by increasing wages, improving facilities and equipment, reducing the teacher's work load through employment of teaching assistants and…

Reported is a research and development program, Project Opportunity, which involved 11 high schools in eight Southern states. Sponsors and participants were the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, the Ford Foundation, Berea, Centre, and Transylvania Colleges, the schools systems of Breathitt and Lee Counties and the Princeton, N.J., High…

The general perspective suggested by this paper is for the states to capitalize on the "new" educational money made available to them by Federal legislation to adopt a strategy for reforming its schools which includes (1) using the problem of the disadvantaged as the means for initiating widespread reform for all children, and (2) making…

The 1967 Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I programs for neglected and delinquent students in New Mexico are examined in this report. Two state and four local institutions were eligible for these programs. Along with specific descriptive data on the programs, the report briefly describes innovative projects, the students' most pressing…

This conference paper maintains that to more effectively motivate disadvantaged students certain basic changes within the school system must be made. Educational intervention should not be limited to preschool education. The use of indigenous nonprofessionals in the schools may benefit the older disadvantaged student by providing him with a role…

A project for developing an effective vocationally-oriented educational program to utilize the capabilities of economically and socially handicapped rural youth was divided into five major phases: (1) an in-depth study of the characteristics of a cross section of families in which the model educational program was tried, (2) an in-depth study of…

This study represents a continuation of a longitudinal assessment of the effectiveness of a Montessori and Responsive Environment preschool program sponsored by the Arlington Public Schools. The Metropolitan Readiness Test, the Caldwell Cooperative Preschool Inventory, and the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test were used to assess the academic…

Passage of the Education Amendments of 1974 added a new section to Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965, which required the U.S. Commissioner of Education to undertake specific activities regarding evaluation of the program. Efforts made by the Office of Education to implement this law are described, including the…

Abstracts of Title I Elementary and Secondary Education Act project evaluations conducted during the 1976-77 academic year in the school district of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania are compiled in this volume. Information concerning current management information, observed activities, attainment of objectives, and program impact is provided for each…

One of 52 theoretical papers on school crime and its relation to poverty, this chapter proposes that school crime and disruption be conceptualized as a function of the congruence or fit between the personal characteristics of individual students and the social environments of the schools they attend. In developing a conceptual model, a selective…

Research over the last ten years provides overwhelming evidence that the most successful students have strong positive self-concepts. This booklet reviews literature on self-concept and describes many programs designed to improve student self-esteem. The paper begins by noting that although no one understands the order of the cause and effect…

This selective abstract bibliography prepared by ERIC Clearinghouse on Early Childhood Education is a guide to recent ERIC documents on bilingual education of children. Citations have been divided into four sections: (1) selected ethnic groups (Spanish speaking, native Americans, Chinese, Portuguese and Filipino); (2) migrants; (3) second language…

This report describes the history, program, sample population, assessment methods, participant reactions, and final evaluation of a 7-year study which investigated the long-term effects of a 2-year traditional nursery school intervention program. A total of 30 disadvantaged children with below-normal initial IQs began the full-day program at age 3…

The project combines full-time and on-the-job work experience with related programs of youth activities and classroom instruction, and provides an avenue for acquiring the Connecticut State Equivalency Diploma. It is aimed at serving young adults in Hartford, Connecticut who have left school before completing 12 years and who are unable to obtain…