This eighth edition of Dr. George Spache's book contains several hundred previously unlisted books for poor readers. The first four chapters deal with book selection practices of children and of adults for children with bibliotherapy and with readability. The remaining ten chapters are extensive annotated listings of children's books, reading…

This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of the British response to an IBE questionnaire. Children from higher social categories do better at school. The nature of the problem is thus partly one of enriching the education of disadvantaged children, and partly one of removing financial barriers to their continued…

This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of the American response to an IBE questionnaire. The main problems in the relationship between social background and school achievement are how to ensure equality of educational opportunity in all 50 states, raising educational standards and improving the quality of schools…

Prepared by an English instructor and a reading supervisor from ideas suggested by an advisory committee of teachers, this compilation of learning activities is designed for use by language arts teachers to supplement the curriculum resource handbook, "Learning Laboratories for Unemployed, Out-of-School Youth" (ED 047 273). The 19 activities,…

In this report, the author indicates how the Texas school finance system works to the detriment of those districts in which Mexican American students are concentrated. Data for the report were taken from the Civil Rights Commission's 1969 survey of education for Mexican Americans in the southwest and the Department of Health Education and…

The first two years of "Sesame Street" were evaluated as to their effectiveness as compensatory education. The evaluation assessed progress along some 36 primary goals of the show, as well as transfer effects, home background variables, parental attitudes, and socioeconomic status factors. Over 1,300 preschool children were tested, and…

In comparing the personality traits of disadvantaged youths to advantaged from an urban high school, as indicated on the IPAT Jr.-Sr. HSPQ, it was found that both groups of boys tended toward a pattern of group-dependency and restraint. They tended to be somewhat detached, less oriented to intellectual pursuits, showing a zest for action and…

Problems of American Indians living in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, are discussed in the series of reports presented in this document. Information gathered by questionnaire forms the basis for the reports on junior high school Indian students, elementary school Indian students, teachers of elementary and junior high school Indian students,…

Disadvantaged high school males indicated on the Minnesota Vocational Interest Inventory a preference for service-oriented jobs. Disadvantaged females tended toward office work and selling. On the Jr.-Sr. HSPQ form of the IPAT, both groups showed a pattern of personality which can be described as group-dependent, restrained, relatively…

This final report of the Early Childhood Demonstration Program for the Disadvantaged, begun in October 1969 at the Learning Research Center of West Chester State College, West Chester, Pennsylvania, contains the evaluative results of 80 children enrolled since 1969. The aim of this compensatory program was to develop an infant education curriculum…

Contents of this book include: "Urban environment in the 1970's," A. Harry Passow; "Educational strategies and the disadvantaged," S.M. Miller and Pamela Roby; "A critique of the concept of 'compensatory education,'" Basil Bernstein; "Early childhood education for the disadvantaged," Helen Robison; "Up from poverty: the price of 'making it' in a…

This volume contains 20 case study profiles of educational RDD&E projects and, as such, constitutes the data base for the Oregon Studies. This part (Part 3) OF Volume IV contains profiles of five diffusion projects along with information that describes the development of the profiles, explains how to read the profiles, and includes a glossary of…

A highly necessary step in the institution of programs for educating and preparing minority youth for the world is periodic evaluation to make certain that the quality of the program is at such a level that the needs of the participants are properly served. One hundred twenty-eight students answered a 44-item questionnaire concerning their…

Research was conducted to show how segments of the population of minority and disadvantaged youth might be positively influenced by selective information campaigns to participate in vocational education programs. The first-year effort (stage 1) undertook to measure student attitudes and to develop recommendations for using this information in…

The study investigated (1) the prediction of attrition/persistence for disadvantaged and regular freshmen at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, and (2) the effectiveness, in terms of attrition/persistence, of an experimental program for disadvantaged students. Descriptive, variance, and correlational (single and multiple) analyses and chi square…